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37 posts on cloud, automation, AI agents, and the homelab.
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. All of those were solvable — not by adding more rules, but by categorizing what…
How to Use Claude Code Subagents to Run Parallel Tasks
I’ve been using Claude Code subagents daily for the past few months. They’re the feature that turned Claude Code from a useful assistant into something that actually scales — running multiple tasks at once without losing context or focus. Here’s how they work, when to reach for them, and the patterns that actually matter in…
Build a Custom MCP Server in Python in 2026
Building tools that Claude Code can call directly from your terminal changes how you work with AI. Instead of copy-pasting data into prompts, you give Claude direct access to your systems through MCP servers. I’ve built several MCP servers in Python — for WordPress publishing, Skool community management, and YouTube analytics. Every one follows the…
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. This guide covers the main options, when each one…
Build a Sales Follow-Up Agent With the Claude Agent SDK
A Norwegian sales manager just told VG his team closed 1,000+ deals in three months using AI agents. He called it “going from cycling to flying a jet.” He didn’t say which tools. So I’ll show you how to build one yourself with the Claude Agent SDK — the same SDK I use to run…
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. No vendor lock-in, no subscription beyond API costs. This is a practical OpenClaw setup…
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 dangerous commands before they run. Send a notification when Claude finishes a task. All without relying on the LLM to remember to do it. Hooks give you deterministic control over Claude Code’s…
Write Claude Code Agent Skills That Actually Work
My agent Koda has 18 Claude Code agent skills. Each one is a markdown file in ~/.koda/skills/. No framework, no plugin system, no YAML config. A skill is a numbered list of steps the agent reads and follows using its normal tools. This is the part of running a Claude Code agent in production that…
Run a Claude Code Agent in Production Without Losing Your Mind
I’ve been running a Claude Code agent named Koda as a 24/7 daemon on my MacBook Pro for about two weeks. It posts to X and Bluesky, drafts blog posts, syncs Skool members to Airtable, analyses YouTube performance, and publishes videos through a Discord approval gate. It runs under pm2, wakes up on cron, and…
Give Your AI Agent Persistent Memory in 2026
Most AI agents forget everything between sessions. They start fresh every time — no context, no history, no lessons learned. That makes them useful for one-shot tasks but useless for anything that compounds over time. I run an autonomous AI agent that handles my content pipeline, social media, and analytics. It operates 24/7 as a…
Automate Blog to Social Media Using AI and Make
Every time I finished writing a new blog post, the same routine followed: summarize it, write captions for each platform, grab the featured image, and publish it manually to LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Facebook. It worked — but it quickly became a chore. As the pace of my publishing increased, I wanted to stop repeating…
Vidnoz AI Review: Text-to-Video That Skips the Camera
Vidnoz is an AI video creation platform that turns text into talking-head videos. No camera, no editing software, no recording setup. I tested it to see how the output compares to building your own video pipeline. What Vidnoz Does You write a script, pick an AI avatar, choose a voice, and Vidnoz generates a complete…
TensorPix Review 2026: Is It Safe, Free Tier, Pricing & Topaz Alternative
I tested TensorPix to see if AI video upscaling actually delivers usable results. Not marketing demos — real footage, real use cases. Here’s what I found. What TensorPix Does TensorPix is a cloud-based AI tool that upscales and enhances video quality. You upload a low-resolution video, pick an AI model, and it processes the file…