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AIOps agent: ask your whole stack anything, or let it watch and tell you first
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Self-Hosted AIOps Agent: Watches Your Systems, Finds What Broke

A custom AI agent wired into your logs, metrics, code and internal APIs. Ask it anything in plain language, and it watches your systems and alerts you before you even look.

chatz: A Self-Hosted AI Chat Where the Assistant Draws the Fucking Dashboard
AI / Containers / Golang

chatz: A Self-Hosted AI Chat Where the Assistant Draws the Fucking Dashboard

Every self-hosted chat UI hands you the same thing: a wall of markdown. You ask the model for last quarter’s numbers, it writes you a table in monospace, and if …

pr0xteus: Disposable VPN Exits for Apps You Wouldn’t Trust With Your Password
Containers / Golang

pr0xteus: Disposable VPN Exits for Apps You Wouldn’t Trust With Your Password

You’ve got some app that needs to leave the building through a VPN. A scraper, a browser bot, some agent poking at sites that would rather it came from somewhere …

ctxscope: Stop Threading request_id Through Every Function Signature
Golang

ctxscope: Stop Threading request_id Through Every Function Signature

Here’s the code everybody writes. A request comes in, you generate an id, and something a few calls down needs to log it: func handleOrder(ctx context.Context, requestID string, o Order) …

slogging: Delete Twenty Lines of slog Boilerplate With One Blank Import
Golang

slogging: Delete Twenty Lines of slog Boilerplate With One Blank Import

Go 1.21 shipped log/slog and it’s good. What it doesn’t ship is any way to configure it, so every service starts with a version of this: var level slog.Level switch …

essessey: Stream a Turn Anywhere Without Rewriting It
AI Tooling / Golang

essessey: Stream a Turn Anywhere Without Rewriting It

The first version streamed over SSE. Then something needed the same turn over NATS, and I found out I’d built the framing into the wrong layer. event: / data: / …

elelem: Say It Out Loud, You’ll Get It
AI Tooling / Golang

elelem: Say It Out Loud, You’ll Get It

The moment that decides what kind of library you’re writing is the one where a human has to approve a tool call. Everything is lovely right up until then. The …

rankrat: Ram One Rat Up Every SEO Console Cockblocking Your Rankings
AI / Containers / Python

rankrat: Ram One Rat Up Every SEO Console Cockblocking Your Rankings

A page falls out of Google’s index. Now you get to find out why. Open Search Console to confirm it’s actually gone. GA4, to see if the traffic died or …

agents: One Marketplace, Because Names Collide
AI Agents

agents: One Marketplace, Because Names Collide

This repo is six files and does nothing. That’s the post. Two dozen of my projects ship an .agents/ directory — a skill that teaches an agent to drive the …

codexbox: Four Environment Variables and a mkdir Standing Between You and OpenAI’s CLI
AI Agents / Bash / Containers

codexbox: Four Environment Variables and a mkdir Standing Between You and OpenAI’s CLI

I already wrote the “why I ripped the plumbing out of my own repos and built a base image” rant in the aicodebox post, so I’m not doing it again …

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