Blog

Jun 5, 2026

A local-only dashboard reading the lharries bridge SQLite — sentiment, topics, reply latency, drift detection, plus per-business verticals.

Jun 5, 2026

I was running my entire travel-rewards strategy out of a Google Sheets pivot table. Here's how I rebuilt it as a daily editorial — gold-on-charcoal, weekly Anthropic commentary, Veo banner loops, per-owner snapshots.

May 21, 2026

AirSynth started as a 6-chord gesture toy. This update turns it into something you can actually sing along with: 8 pop songs with time-synced LRClib lyrics, smplr SplendidGrandPiano, parallel-routed plate reverb, 16 broken-chord patterns, and 10 right-hand fills.

May 16, 2026

Building sarahmichael.carlfung.dev for Heilam + Baoqi — a single-page Next.js scrapbook with a banquet-floor seating chart, an editable checklist on Turso, RSVP confirmations via Resend, EN ↔ 中 toggle, and the playful little touches I snuck in.

May 8, 2026

A weekend project that turned the fortune-teller site into a webcam-driven gesture playground. MediaPipe for landmarks, synthetic pointer events for hover, ChatGPT Image 2.0 for 27 painted tarot cards, and a universal gesture vocab so the next project can skip straight to the fun part.

May 8, 2026

Most Home Assistant guides start with a Raspberry Pi. Mine starts with the Mac mini already on my desk — and a Tailscale-and-token setup that lets two AI agents both control my house.

Apr 28, 2026

I run two AI agents in the same Discord server — one for life, one for code. They never talk to each other. I am the glue. Here is how the handoff became the most powerful part.

Apr 23, 2026

I was in a Hong Kong hotel without my laptop. An iPhone with Termius, a $4/month Hetzner VPS, and Tailscale — Claude Code kept shipping. Here's the setup that made it work.

Apr 22, 2026

My Claude Code on the Mac, my Claude Code on the VPS, and my personal AI assistant all remembered different things. A Jira ticket from a month ago finally pulled them into one git-backed vault — and then my laptop slept through the first push.

Apr 1, 2026

Tiger runs 24/7 in Docker on my laptop — 30 skills, 12 cron jobs, smart home, finance tracking, security cameras — all for $3.60 a month. Here is how OpenClaw and Claude Code split the work, and why I build every skill myself.

Mar 28, 2026

I run 3-4 Claude Code sessions at once. I needed to know which one just finished — without reading a single line of output. So I built a floating anime cat.

Mar 25, 2026

I had 498 permission rules protecting nothing — because one global setting was silently allowing everything. Here is how CLAUDE.md bloat, memory sprawl, and permission debt slow down every session.

Mar 21, 2026

I saw a Hacker News thread about someone getting hacked through their AI assistant. That weekend, I built an 11-point security audit that runs every Monday morning.

Mar 15, 2026

The $672 wake-up call, the 112K character wall, and the week my AI agent system learned to govern itself — with agents auditing their own permissions, costs, and security.

Mar 14, 2026

Most AI-generated outputs vanish into terminal history. I turned Claude Code's memory folder into an Obsidian vault — now every draft, image, and debugging session is browsable, searchable, and backed up.

Mar 12, 2026

How I overhauled my Next.js portfolio in one session using a Framer template as design inspiration and Claude Code as the implementation partner — scroll-stacking cards, film grain, transparent navbar, and more.

Mar 9, 2026

What if someone could see your portfolio by typing ssh into their terminal? I built a 6-page terminal UI with Go, Bubble Tea, and Wish — featuring typing animations, ASCII art, and a markdown blog reader — and deployed it to Fly.io for $2/month.

Mar 9, 2026

How I turned 28 existing blog posts into a 4x/week LinkedIn content strategy — using a Python script, Late API's free tier, and a content transformation pattern that takes 0 manual effort per week.

Mar 9, 2026

How I built a multi-platform social media automation pipeline for AgnusBlast using Late API, Claude Cowork, and Imagen 4 — scheduling 32 posts across Instagram and X/Twitter with one script.

Mar 7, 2026

26 blog posts, zero images, one afternoon. Here's how I used Imagen 4 and Gemini 3 Pro to generate custom hero visuals for every post — with 8 different visual styles mapped to content type.

Mar 6, 2026

Who said you need a desk to ship? How I use Claude Code on claude.ai to brainstorm, write, and update this site from my phone — and where it still falls short.

Mar 5, 2026

A step-by-step guide to cloning, configuring, and deploying the ai-journey site — including CLI tools, database credentials, sanitization rules, and all the gotchas I hit along the way.

Mar 5, 2026

How I use structured prompts and Napkin AI to turn weekly progress data into visual infographics — turning reflection into a habit.

Mar 3, 2026

I was paying $24/month for n8n Cloud without realising I could run the exact same thing locally for free using Docker. Here's how Claude Code walked me through the whole migration — including auto-exporting all 24 workflows — in a single session.

Mar 2, 2026

I wanted to know the moment resale ticket prices dropped below my threshold — without checking manually. A Python script, Playwright, and a GitHub Actions cron job later, I never have to look again.

Mar 1, 2026

I built a trip planner with zero npm dependencies — plain HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS. It deploys in seconds, loads instantly, and taught me how much the web platform already gives you for free.

Feb 28, 2026

OCR alone gives you gibberish. Add Claude Haiku and suddenly 'DRGN FRT 2PK' becomes 'Dragon Fruit' with a 5-day shelf life and a purchase date pulled from the receipt header.

Feb 27, 2026

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Feb 25, 2026

How the desk CLI eliminated auth failures and reduced token usage by 52% in our AI agent workflows.

Feb 24, 2026

I run Claude Code on my phone (cloud) and my Mac (local terminal). Here's what I learned about keeping them in sync — and when the quick fix on mobile costs more than waiting.

Feb 22, 2026

A practical guide to Model Context Protocol — connecting AI models to Jira, Confluence, Google Workspace, and enterprise tools.

Feb 20, 2026

From plumbing to intelligence — portfolio analysis, wiki hygiene, organizational knowledge automation, and the real lessons about when to stop automating.

Feb 18, 2026

Lessons from writing system prompts for 17 agents that run daily — specificity, failure modes, and the art of agent instructions.

Feb 16, 2026

How I built 17 specialized AI agents that autonomously handle sprint boards, meeting prep, and cross-team program monitoring.

Feb 14, 2026

After testing 9 AI tools side by side — from NotebookLM to Claude Code to Gemini — here's what actually works for program management.

Feb 12, 2026

The evolution from simple automation scripts to a sophisticated multi-agent system with Claude Code.

Feb 10, 2026

Long before Claude Code, before MCP, before agents — there was AutoHotkey. How scripting clinic workflows in 2012 planted the seed for everything that followed.

Feb 8, 2026

Replacing unreliable MCP data sources with direct CLI tools, implementing model tiering (Opus vs Sonnet), and cutting weekly costs from $333 to ~$200.

Feb 7, 2026

Building a custom statusline for cost visibility, hitting macOS quirks, attempting (and failing) to schedule agents, and learning to self-audit your config.

Feb 6, 2026

Adding program monitors for every workstream, building initiative health auditing, and discovering that Jira's custom fields are the key to everything.

Feb 5, 2026

Search indexing lag, silent failures, result pollution — Day 5 was about discovering that production-grade agents need production-grade error handling.

Feb 4, 2026

One agent to rule them all. How a hierarchical dispatch system turned compound requests into parallel agent execution.

Feb 3, 2026

Not all AI models are created equal. Day 3 was about learning which tasks need the expensive model and which don't.

Feb 2, 2026

Morning briefing, EOD summary, standup sync — three agents that turned 3 hours of daily TPM overhead into 5 minutes of review.

Feb 1, 2026

Installing Claude Code, writing my first CLAUDE.md, connecting MCP servers, and going on a skill-install spree that laid the foundation for everything that followed.