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Field notes from 16 years in cloud, infrastructure, security, and automation — plus everything I'm learning about AI agents and Claude Code, tested in production and my homelab.
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All posts →How I Give Claude Code Agents Real Autonomy (And Stop 3am Disasters)
Running Claude Code agents unsupervised is only scary if you haven’t drawn the lines. I’ve had agents push to the wrong branch, draft content I didn’t want published, and retry failed jobs in loops that burned rate limits at 2am. I solved all of it by sorting actions into classes: what the agent may do…
How to Use Claude Code Subagents to Run Parallel Tasks
I’ve used Claude Code subagents daily for the past few months. They are what made Claude Code scale for me: several tasks running at once, without my main session losing the thread. Here is how subagents work, when I spawn one, and the parallel-task patterns I keep coming back to in…
Build a Custom MCP Server in Python in 2026
I’ve built several MCP servers in Python: WordPress publishing, Skool community management, YouTube analytics. They all follow the same pattern, and the point of each one was to stop copy-pasting data into prompts and let Claude Code call the system directly. Here’s how to build one from scratch with the official SDK, including the parts…
Sync Notion to WordPress: Keep Your Content in Sync Automatically
You write in Notion. Your blog runs on WordPress. The gap between them is where you lose 15-30 minutes per post: copy-pasting content, re-uploading images, setting SEO fields, fixing formatting that breaks in Gutenberg. There are several ways to publish from Notion to WordPress automatically. Below are the main options and when each one…
Set Up OpenClaw as Your Personal AI Agent in 2026
OpenClaw is the open-source AI agent that hit 356,000 GitHub stars in three months. It connects any LLM (Claude, GPT, Kimi K2.5, local models via Ollama) to your messaging apps and runs as a persistent daemon on your machine. You pay for API calls and nothing beyond that. Here is the OpenClaw setup path…
Claude Code Hooks (2026): Setup Guide with Working Examples
Claude Code hooks are shell commands that fire automatically when specific events happen during your coding session. Format code after every edit. Block a dangerous command before it runs. The LLM never has to remember any of it, and that is the whole point. Hooks give you deterministic control over Claude Code’s…