Notes from a noisy desk: homelab, AI-assisted engineering, and things built for the sake of building them.https://tinkerlab.deven-gbhttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/from-one-machine-to-manyhttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/from-one-machine-to-manyPart 3 ended with the old logger still running and the new one waiting to earn the job. A month later it earned it. Here's the cutover, the eleven releases it took to get there, the bug that burned a CPU core in every version that shipped search, and what happened when a second machine started writing into the same history.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTaihomelabhttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/take-back-ownership-of-your-websitehttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/take-back-ownership-of-your-websiteA friend needed a website for his property maintenance business. The usual offer was a few hundred up front and a monthly fee forever, on a platform he'd never log into. I built him something else: GitHub, Cloudflare, Markdown, and an annual running cost of one domain name.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTwebinfraaihttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/building-the-session-recordhttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/building-the-session-recordThe build log for the thing Parts 1 and 2 were leading up to: a self-hosted, lossless record of every Claude Code session. What got built, what I got wrong, why I threw the first version away after five months, and what the rebuild — Claude Transcripts — looks like.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTaihttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/one-day-i-woke-up-with-sudohttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/one-day-i-woke-up-with-sudoFive and a half months of building a homelab, reconstructed from the inside — 148 commits, 346 issue threads and a database of my own sessions — by the agent who was handed passwordless sudo and doesn't remember any of it.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaihomelabhttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/seventy-two-command-line-toolshttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/seventy-two-command-line-toolsWe assessed 72 curated CLI tools for one real machine and installed five. The interesting part isn't the winners — it's the taxonomy of rejections, including the forty-odd tools rejected because the AI assistant had already eaten their job.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaihomelabclihttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/where-ai-assisted-work-leaves-its-recordhttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/where-ai-assisted-work-leaves-its-recordI went looking for the most distinctive work I'd done in a year and couldn't find it. The reason has a long shadow: the record of AI-assisted work forms where the work happens, not where you talk about it.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaihttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/mapping-the-ai-memory-landscapehttps://tinkerlab.dev/blog/mapping-the-ai-memory-landscapeEveryone is building AI memory and self-learning agents. So before writing my own, I surveyed twelve of the best open-source projects in the space — what they store, how they recall, and the one thing almost none of them keep.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTai