Mining 18,000 emails for facts about my own life
I had three years of email sitting in a DynamoDB table and a memory store wired into my assistant. The assistant was making decisions with no recall of…
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Push notifications only firing on the final assistant message
My homelab assistant runs as a Claude Code agent in the background. When it finishes a long task, it pushes a notification to my phone with the result…
Read →Designing a receipt matcher for my financial dashboard
Most of my transactions have a receipt sitting in Gmail somewhere. I just want to be able to click a charge in my finance dashboard and see the actual…
Read →Dynamo as inbox, with a passkey
I built a single-page mail reader on top of the DynamoDB table my mail pipeline writes to. Three-pane layout (inbox list / messages / body), search…
Read →Empty bubbles on iOS when the assistant only called tools
The iOS client kept showing blank assistant bubbles in the middle of a multi-step turn. Pull-to-refresh fixed it. Notifications fired fine. The text was…
Read →MIME bodies disguised as attachments
My mail reader was showing "(no text body)" for a chunk of messages, including basically everything from iCloud. The body was right there in the raw…
Read →Multi-select with context-aware bulk actions
I built multi-select for the mail reader UI and then almost shipped a bad version of the bulk-archive button. The fix was making the button's behavior…
Read →Personal mail as a serverless pipeline (and a forwarder identity trap)
I wanted every email to my personal domains stored in DynamoDB as the primary read surface, with Google Workspace continuing to receive a copy as a cold…
Read →Sensor Offline alerts while traveling, twice
A safety app I run pinged me every hour with "Sensor Offline — no data from IFTTT in the last 24 hours" while I was on a trip. That sensor is the motion…
Read →Two weeks of silent torrent failures from one chown
Nothing new had landed in my movie library since the 4th of the month. Radarr looked healthy, the queue was just stuck at 321 items. Most of them showed…
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