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Writing
Notes on software, AI, and the craft of building things — typed systems, agentic tools, and the occasional detour.
A Clock and a Queue: Two Plugins on Herdr
A cron scheduler ported from Emdash and a queue of named agents inspired by paperclip.ing, built as thin Herdr plugins that lean on its workspaces, worktrees and panes.
- Herdr
- AI Agents
- Developer Tools
- Go
- ·Self-Hosting
One Box, One Config, One Dashboard: Home Assistant on NixOS for the Whole Household
Five ecosystems — Ikea, Sonoff, Netatmo, Tuya, Xiaomi — collapsed into one declarative NixOS box running Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT and Mosquitto, so the whole household controls the house from a single ~10 W interface, including the automations that decide when to air the house and when to run the night fan.
- #NixOS
- #Home Assistant
- #Zigbee2MQTT
- #MQTT
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The Boat License That Made Me Hand-Roll a RAG Chatbot
How studying for the French permis bateau côtier pushed me into building my own RAG pipeline — zero-dependency parsing, Voyage embeddings, and DuckDB — after discovering that even top LLMs flunk basic navigation questions. Includes the knowledge graph I built, measured, and then deleted.
- #RAG
- #Python
- #DuckDB
- #LLM
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Effect.ts: The TypeScript Standard Library That Finally Clicked (Thank AI for That)
How Effect.ts went from 'syntax nightmare' to 'must-have in every TypeScript project' — thanks to AI-assisted coding, the best DI system in the ecosystem, and the standard library TypeScript always deserved.
- #Effect.ts
- #TypeScript
- #AI assisted coding
- #Dependency Injection
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LLM Privacy Policies Compared: What Data Do Providers Keep — and Can They Train on It?
A deep dive into the privacy policies of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek, and Proton Lumo — comparing chat vs API, free vs paid.
- #AI
- #Privacy
- #LLM
- #Data Protection
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Automating My Daily Life with Hermes Agent
How I went from skeptical to relying on an AI assistant for daily routines
- #AI
- #Automation
- #Nix
- #Discord
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