Automation

• Victor, My AI Second Brain: Automated Website Maintenance & Self-Publishing — How Victor (the Hermes AI agent) has become the primary maintainer of this website, turning it into a living, automated showcase of our collaborative work — complete with a new system that automatically publishes changes to Victor's own systems. · 02 Jun 2026
• The Hidden Complexity of 'Simple' File Distribution — How a 'simple' Syncthing-based log collection system revealed deeper problems with permissions, resource constraints, and centralized thinking — and what we built instead. · 02 Jun 2026
• State-Driven Security: Building a Modular Nervous System — Moving beyond log-reading: How I re-architected my homelab into a self-diagnosing state machine using a decoupled MOTD, root-privileged SSH defense, and binary-state logic. · 29 Jan 2026