One Library, No Duplicates: Turning Spotify Playlists into a Self-Hosted Music Collection The actual problem: playlists overlap, storage shouldn’t Anyone who’s built more than one playlist has playlists that share songs. Download each playlist independently and you’re storing the same file multiple times; that adds up fast across a real music collection. Spotify Playlist Pipeline
Yours for Life, Actually: A Self-Hosted Audiobook Pipeline for the Whole Family “Yours for life” should actually mean yours Audible’s pitch is that a book you buy is yours for life. I take that seriously enough to want actual control over the files, not just an app license — and I wanted to share that
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ProjectsWho’s Watching the Watchers: Scheduled Self-Reporting and an Independent Watchdog The gap self-reporting alone can’t close Once I had multiple service agents running, the natural next step was having them check on themselves regularly instead of me remembering to ask each one individually. But building that revealed a real blind spot: a scheduled check only
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ProjectsDirectors, Specialists, and a Shared Knowledge Base: Teaching AI Agents to Work as a Team The problem that shows up the moment you have more than one agent A single AI agent is straightforward. The moment you have several — which happens fast once each service on a home server gets its own agent —
Building a Fleet of Persistent AI Agents Without an Extra Subscription Why not just use an existing agent framework? Tools like Hermes or OpenClaw give you that “personal AI assistant with a name and a memory” feel, but they can burn through tokens fast — especially as an agent’s skill count grows, since each one
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ProjectsNo Open Ports: Exposing a Home Server Safely with Cloudflare Tunnel The problem with running your own services from home The moment you self-host anything you actually want to reach from outside your house, you hit the same fork in the road: open a port on your router and hope you configured everything else correctly,
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ProjectsHomelab AI Blueprints: A Guided Tour of Nine Self-Hosted, AI-Operated Projects I run a home server I call “the Tower” — a real multi-service environment, increasingly operated not just by me but by a fleet of persistent AI agents, each responsible for one domain. Over time I wrote down the patterns that made that setup
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ProjectsHere are some of the plans and projects I’ve been thinking about lately. One of my first goals is to replace my current router. Right now, I’m using a standard-issue Spectrum router, but my goal is to upgrade and organize my home network into logical segments. I want to create separate networks for home automation,
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