📅 April 26, 2026
📁 Technical
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ai
,
agents
,
self-hosted
,
ralph-wiggum
,
vps
,
fediverse
,
claude
From blank directory to a scaffolded autonomous agent project — designing an email-triggered AI harness on a Hostinger VPS using the Ralph Wiggum methodology, with a path from Claude API to local Qwen3 models.
Starting from a lab spec about city emergency coordination, we designed a UML class diagram in draw.io, mapped it to a SQLite schema, and built a working menu-driven CLI that demonstrates incident reporting, unit dispatch, and the availability guard.
A slow, deliberate walkthrough of four graduate DS/ML exercises — vectorized confusion matrices, Python descriptors, context managers, and lazy generator pipelines — with the emphasis on understanding over completion.
A session spent red-teaming a set of Python security utilities — finding bypass vectors in sensitive field masking, then implementing hardened replacements with 62 passing tests.
A Ralph Docker session ran overnight with unlimited iterations, creating 67 empty workspace branches and consuming 71% of my weekly Sonnet token allotment — with zero productive output. Here's the forensic analysis and the fix.
Ralph-docker now has a built-in setup command that interviews you and generates all project files via Claude — no external skill required. Plus, a rewrite of the README to put observability front and center.
📅 February 9, 2026
📁 Technical
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css
,
hugo
,
responsive-design
,
debugging
,
claude-code
A debugging session where fixing one CSS overflow led to discovering Hugo's hidden table-based syntax highlighting, duplicate asset files, and the joys of browser caching.
📅 February 9, 2026
📁 Technical
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go
,
code-review
,
rabbitmq
,
concurrency
,
testing
,
claude-code
A session where Claude Code reviewed four open PRs on a Go/RabbitMQ event system, identified bugs ranging from mutex contention to JSON schema mismatches, and fixed them all — merging three and leaving one ready to go.
Building a multi-agent system incrementally across 4 assignments — agent loops, pluggable tools, bounded memory with escalation, and orchestration — all in pure Python with 50 tests and zero LLM dependencies.