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Automate your homelab with Claude Code

An agent with access to your server can save you hours of maintenance, or wipe your data. Here's how I set mine up so only the first one happens.

A second-hand mini PC, Proxmox and a couple of afternoons. Everything you stop paying for once you run your own server at home.

Coding assistants write Laravel fast, but they always trip over the same three stones. Learn to spot them before you hit merge.

Giving an AI agent access to your terminal is unnerving. A well-configured container lets you keep the speed without betting your machine.

Home automation without useless gadgets: the automations I've kept running for months and that genuinely took work off my hands.

Why I swapped PHPUnit for Pest across all my projects, and how to build a suite that actually survives over time.