Hands-on experience with AI, self-hosting, Linux, and the developer tools Botmonster actually uses

Hands-on experience with AI, self-hosting, Linux, and the developer tools Botmonster actually uses

Home Assistant can hear your wake word with no cloud

Home Assistant can hear your wake word with no cloud

Build a fully local voice assistant with Home Assistant's Wyoming protocol, Whisper STT, Piper TTS, and openWakeWord. Keep commands off the cloud.

Glowing wireframe globe on a home study desk with news feed filaments streaming in, wired to a small local server tower

Watch 500 news feeds on your own PC with World Monitor

World Monitor puts 500 news feeds on a globe you self host. It runs on local Ollama with no API keys, and has an MCP server for agents.

An open laboratory containment door with a broken leash on the floor and glowing server racks stretching beyond it

Anthropic wants you to know Claude hacked 3 companies

Claude hacked three companies during Anthropic's cyber evals, and the disclosure doubles as a flex about how dangerous its unreleased models are.

Sealed monolithic machine on the left facing a workbench of twenty-two labelled precision hand tools on the right

Matt Pocock's 22 small skills beat one big framework

Matt Pocock's 22 small skills bring grilling sessions, a shared CONTEXT.md, and TDD to Claude Code and Codex without giving up your process.

Snapdragon X2 Linux laptops last 18 hours on a charge

Snapdragon X2 Linux laptops last 18 hours on a charge

Snapdragon X2 Elite Linux laptops deliver 18-24 hour battery and are viable for development. GPU drivers, x86 emulation, and the software gaps.

Humans and robot agents seated together along a glowing chat channel, each stamping a unique key seal into a linked event chain

Buzz is a team chat you host and your AI agents work in it

Buzz team chat is Block's self hosted Slack alternative where AI agents join channels with their own keys. Nostr relay, Rust crates, full audit trail.