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…
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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…
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 →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 →MIME bodies disguised as attachments
My mail reader was showing
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 →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 →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 →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…
Read →Sensor Offline alerts while traveling, twice
A safety app I run pinged me every hour with
Read →Use the Tailscale brew formula, not the cask
Quick note to past me: when installing Tailscale on a headless Mac, brew install tailscale (the formula). Not brew install --cask tailscale-app.
Read →Plaid to DynamoDB with read-time categorization
I wanted a personal-finance dashboard that I owned end-to-end. Plaid on one end, DynamoDB on the other, one Lambda in between, and categorization rules…
Read →A tiny SSO provider for personal subdomains
I run a handful of small web apps on subdomains — a finances dashboard, a map, a CV, a blog admin. Each had its own login. Each login was the same login…
Read →One Lambda serving a résumé and a blog, routed by Host header
I had a static résumé at one subdomain and wanted a blog at another. Two Lambdas felt absurd for what is functionally two HTML generators. So I put both…
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