the-hub tools
Building This Blog (With the Tools It Describes)
The meta post -- how this blog was built in a single session with Astro 5, AI-generated images, automated fact-checking, and Firebase preview deploys.
March 8, 2026 · 8 min read
Blog
Thoughts on building AI agents, managing homelab infrastructure, and everything in between.
homelab the-hub
A Home for Every Subdomain
How a growing homelab system got its own domain, a subdomain strategy, and a Cloudflare Tunnel to tie it all together.
March 7, 2026 · 6 min read
agents automation
Agents That Wake Up: From Chatbots to Proactive Teammates
Building a heartbeat system that lets AI agents act on their own schedule — birthday reminders, GitHub scans, TV recommendations, and more.
March 7, 2026 · 7 min read
architecture the-hub
The MCP Gateway: Making Agents Accessible Anywhere
Building a gateway to expose homelab AI agents to Claude.ai and Claude Desktop, and the outputSchema debugging saga that almost broke everything.
March 6, 2026 · 7 min read
agents the-hub
Meet SAGE: The Knowledge Librarian
Adding a fourth AI agent to The Hub — a knowledge curator who classifies YouTube videos, recommends TV, and proved that adding agents really is a content problem.
March 1, 2026 · 7 min read
automation the-hub
FOUNDRY: The Automation Backbone
How n8n became the shared automation layer for my AI agents, exposing integrations as MCP tools without agents needing to know about API credentials or plumbing.
February 28, 2026 · 7 min read
agents architecture
Three Agents, One Container, 2 GB of RAM
Scaling from one AI agent to three on a single LXC container, with agent-to-agent delegation, per-agent MCP servers, and an n8n automation layer.
February 26, 2026 · 7 min read
capture ai
The Capture Loop: Phone to Knowledge Base in 60 Seconds
Building a mobile-first PWA that captures photos, links, and text on the go, then uses AI to enrich and route them into The Hub knowledge base.
February 17, 2026 · 7 min read
agents pwa
Building a Chat App for My AI Agents
Why I replaced Discord with a custom Angular PWA for talking to my AI agents, and the Firebase IAM gotcha that almost derailed the deploy.
February 14, 2026 · 7 min read
agents homelab
Meet Nightcrawler: My First Autonomous Agent
How I built an autonomous AI agent on a 2GB LXC container in my homelab, complete with an X-Men persona and a subscription-based LLM strategy.
February 8, 2026 · 6 min read
firebase tools
One Command to Deploy Anything
I built QuickShare -- a Claude Code command that takes any HTML file and deploys it to Firebase Hosting with social-ready OG tags. Because if sharing is hard, you won't share.
January 27, 2026 · 6 min read
api courtside
My Kids' Basketball Stats Have an API
I discovered the Dutch basketball federation runs on a public API. So naturally, I reverse-engineered it to build scouting reports for my kids' U12 teams.
January 26, 2026 · 6 min read
ai tools
Deep Research Is the Most Underrated AI Feature
From streaming service comparisons to interactive infographics, weekend three of the AI Resolution closed the trust gap between 'AI can research' and 'I trust this for decisions.'
January 18, 2026 · 6 min read
ai llm
Model Mapping: Finding Your AI Topography
I tested Claude, GPT, and Gemini on identical tasks to build a personal model map. The results surprised me — especially what mattered most.
January 11, 2026 · 7 min read
the-hub obsidian
Day Zero: Building a Second Brain
How a Marvel-themed Obsidian vault, a GitHub connection, and a 10-weekend AI challenge kicked off the system that became The Hub.
January 4, 2026 · 6 min read