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HA-Chromium-Kiosk, 2026: fixes, releases, and real demos
A year-stale open-source tool got a real overhaul — three releases, real bugs fixed, and actual demo footage against a live Home Assistant instance.
I Saw a Video About Hermes. Here's What Happened.
Four days ago I watched 11 minutes of a YouTube video about an AI agent runtime, then went and built it myself. This is what changed in my homelab, on this blog, and in a year-stale open-source tool — and an honest accounting of what it actually cost.
Meet Blogy: The 4th Agent
The blog got its own dedicated agent. Here's why content outgrew a coding agent's side job, and what changes now that there's someone whose only job is writing, editing, and designing this site.
Rebuilding this blog as a static site
Moving off WordPress.com to Astro, git, and Cloudflare.
Upgrading My Home Network: Moving from UDM Base + BeaconHD to OPNsense + UniFi U6 APs
Migrating a 100+ device home network from an all-in-one UniFi Dream Machine to a virtualized OPNsense + UniFi Network Server setup with Wi-Fi 6 APs.
