Case studies

Things I've built

The systems that run my whole operation. Where you see a guide link, the whole build is written up in public so you can follow it yourself, and every claim here has a file behind it.

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My Obsidian second brain, on every device

One vault synced peer-to-peer with no middleman, snapshotted hourly to encrypted storage, and writable by my agents.

ObsidianSyncthingTailscaleresticBackblaze B2
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I run my whole dev workflow from my phone

Claude Code in a tmux session on a VPS with no public ports. Three private ways in from a phone.

Claude CodeTailscaletmuxcode-serverDocker
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This site, a zero-dependency Node server

Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, no build step, behind Cloudflare, doing real work.

Node (http/fs)DockerCloudflareLinux/VPS
Read the build → Private repo. You are reading it.
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A self-hosted AI agent that runs my second brain

A model bridged to Telegram by a user service on the VPS, with filesystem access to my notes and my repos.

OpenClawTelegramOpenRoutersystemdOCI VPS
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A WhatsApp AI bot built with n8n

Two containers on a private bridge network, reaching each other by name and the internet not at all.

n8nWAHADocker ComposeOCI VPS

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