Practical guides on Linux, self-hosting, automation, and development tools.

Claude Code + Obsidian

A personal intelligence system where AI reads your files, knows your context, and compounds your thinking over time.

The series

  1. Introduction — the concept and why it matters
  2. Vault and Structure — organising your files
  3. Context Navigation — how the AI finds what it needs
  4. Park and Pickup — session continuity

Companion guides

Personal Security

Practical, opinionated digital security for non-technical friends and family.

SWE for AI Orchestrators

What transfers from software engineering to solo AI orchestration — and what doesn't.

  1. Process & Methodology — 6 highest-leverage concepts
  2. Engineering Thinking — 5 concepts for evaluating AI output
  3. Meta-Skills — post-incident learning, context management, prompt-as-spec
  4. Maintenance, Handover and Revalidation — preserve context, schedule reviews and define refactor triggers
  5. Glossary — terms explained in plain English

Tools

Desktop setup and daily-driver utilities.

  • Global Dictation — local dictation with Handy and Parakeet, plus clipboard recovery
  • Kitty — fast GPU terminal with browser-style tabs, splits and Claude Code-friendly keys
  • Firecrawl — JS-rendered web scraping to markdown
  • AI Music Covers — voice-convert any song to any singer, for cents

Infrastructure

Self-hosted services, backups, and server configuration.