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An opinionated guide to building your own always-on personal AI assistant using Pi, OpenCode Go, Telegram, Resend, Hetzner, Tailscale, GitHub, and Nginx.
Guides
Step-by-step guides for developers building with modern tools and platforms.
Get Started in Five Minutes: Query Across Two APIs Using Orbital
Add Orbital to two REST APIs and replace manual join code with a single TaxiQL query. Covers Taxi schemas, Docker Compose setup, and the .env step that isn't in the official docs.
Build an Outfit Try-On Telegram Bot with Black Forest Labs
Build VirtualFit, a Telegram bot that lets users send a selfie and a clothing item to get a photorealistic try-on image using the BFL FLUX.2 API.
Do Agents need Quickstart Guides?
I integrated the same app with Infisical twice, once with a quickstart I'd written from experience and once without. The guided run cost half as much, took half as many context lines, and used the integration approach Infisical actually recommends.
I Tried to Get an AI Agent to Post a Blog Without Leaking My Password
Can an AI agent log into WordPress, write a post, and publish it, without ever seeing your password?
Is Entire.io entirely hype or is it the future of GitHub?
I used Entire's Checkpoints CLI to track a Claude Code agent building a real project. Here's what the session data looks like, how rewind works, and what you should know before adopting it.
AI Agents Still Need Passwords: Three Approaches to Credential Security
AI agent auth assumes OAuth and tokens, but agents still need plain old passwords for databases, APIs, and legacy services. I tested three approaches to credential security for AI coding agents.
Build an AI Email Assistant with Letta, n8n, and Resend
Build Jeeves, an AI email assistant with persistent memory and access control, using Letta for the agent, n8n for orchestration, and Resend for email.
Using VS Code, GitHub, and AMP Code for technical writing on macOS
A step-by-step guide on how to set up VS Code, GitHub, and AMP Code for technical writing on macOS.
Introducing the AX Benchmark: Measuring Agent Experience for Developer Platforms
We're evaluating how well AI agents can discover, sign up for, onboard, and integrate with developer tools. Here's our framework for measuring Agent Experience (AX) across five key metrics.