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Two machine cards, a mini PC server and a workstation, listing the Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity and Muse Code agents linked through AGENTS.md

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Running AI Coding Agents Across Several Machines

How I run Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity and Muse Code across a mini PC server and a workstation: one rulebook, a router for delegated work, hard safety gates and real numbers.

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Web Hosting

Static Site Hosting on Bunny

How this site runs on Bunny as plain static files, why I removed the edge script that answered 6,827 old WordPress URLs, and the deploy that checks itself.

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VMware

VMware After Broadcom

Three years after Broadcom bought VMware: what changed for licensing and home labs, why 90% of surveyed customers are looking at alternatives, and where the lab went.

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General

10GbE and Storage Server Upgrades

Since the swap over to my new 4U storage server ZION it has already had a number of upgrades and I have used it quite heavily.

Completed Zion rackmount storage server with fifteen hot-swap drive bays

Home Lab

Scaling down the home lab, slightly

Since my last post about my new Zion 4U storage server I have been more and more impressed by Unraid and have started using Docker and KVM virtualization on it.

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Home Lab

ZION - 4U Unraid Storage Server

I am excited to reveal my latest 2020 custom server build - ZION. See my previous planning post for Zion here.

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Home Lab

2020 Home Lab Upgrade (Unraid 4U)

It's a new year, and that means it's time for some home lab upgrades! The last few upgrades I did were some hardware hacks to my old Thecus N5550's to support…

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Cloud

Google Stadia and Cloud Gaming

With Google Stadia's release date quickly approaching on November 19, 2019 I wanted to give some of my thoughts on Cloud Gaming and the Google Stadia platform.

Unraid 6.7.2 interface showing the Thecus NAS disk array and parity status

Storage

unRAID on Thecus N5550 with 6 drives

This post is specific to owners of the Thecus N5550 but will apply to almost all of the Thecus NAS lineup as well.

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