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· 5 min read · ai-agentsdomain-renewalautomation

I Asked an AI Agent to Renew a Client Domain. It Found Every Place It Should Stop.

Most people think the hard part of using an AI agent is getting it to do something. It is not. The hard part is teaching it where to stop. This week I gave my agent a very ordinary operational task: …

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· 7 min read · aiai-agentsautomation

A Chatbot Became Useful When I Let It Touch My Real Systems

I had an idea for a blog post sitting in a Kanban column called Selected. I typed one message: work kanban task. Hermes did not immediately produce a post. It read the card, loaded the blogging …

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· 4 min read · aiai-agentskanban

How I Route Kanban Workers to the Right AI Model

Recently I changed how my Hermes Kanban board chooses an AI model. Previously, every profile used the same model. It was simple, but it was also lazy. A worker reviewing a release decision and a …

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· 4 min read · ai-agentsautomationtravel

I Let an AI Agent Book My Airport Parking

Airport parking is a small problem with an unusually large number of details. The airport matters. So do the dates, the shuttle timetable, the side of the border, the price, the payment system, and …

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· 5 min read · parentingmotivationconfidence

Backing Up Is Not Backing Away

When a child struggles, my first instinct is to push. Not aggressively. More like a responsible parent: explain the importance, make a plan, sit nearby, ask about homework, check the scores, repeat …

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· 6 min read · Apple ShortcutsHashiCorp ConsulConsul KV

Automating Night Silence with Apple Shortcuts and HashiCorp Consul

I have a nightly cron that can post things from OpenClaw to a Discord channel. This is useful. This is also dangerous at night. If I forget to close the tab, or some device keeps the sound enabled, …

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· 2 min read · devopseducationteaching

DevOps Is Full of Hidden Prerequisites

I published a small interactive artifact today: DevOps Mastery Graph The idea came from thinking about adaptive education, but the thing I care about is much more practical: DevOps courses are full of …

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· 9 min read · openclawapple-watchshortcuts

Automating Apple Watch Sleep Tracking with Shortcuts and OpenClaw

I wanted a small piece of personal automation. My Apple Watch already tracks sleep every night. I wanted the numbers to land in my own system every morning, so OpenClaw could keep history, spot bad …

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· 3 min read · ai-agentsopenclawhome-assistant

I Asked My Home AI Agent About Amazon Orders

I spent some time wiring a stupidly fun experiment at home. The question was simple: Where is my Amazon order? I wanted to ask this out loud and get a spoken answer back from my home AI agent. The …

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· 6 min read · aiagentsknowledge-management

Knowledge Should Be Files

Google Cloud published the Open Knowledge Format this week. The name sounds bigger than the thing itself. And that is good. OKF is basically this: markdown files YAML frontmatter normal links between …

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