Human, With a Machine

Notes on building small digital projects, tools, and systems.

Log #037
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Luna lives: a first persistent AI agent on my home server

How I moved Hermes Agent onto a Dell home server, secured the box, and gave my new agent Luna her own GitHub identity for nightly backups.

Log #036

What if I had a 20 kWh battery? Simulating 3 years of electricity data

I ran a simulation on 49 Tibber invoices and 36 Eon invoices to find out how much less electricity I'd need to buy if I had a home battery.

Log #035

Upgrading to Claude Max — Picking the Strongest Tool in the Room

After months on the entry tier of every lab, I'm upgrading Claude to the max plan. Here's why Claude Code is where the work actually happens right now.

Log #034

Two Minds — Naming the Company and Designing the Brand

A day in ChatGPT and Claude Design: landing on Two Minds AB, a Venn-of-minds logo, and a pastel design system for the company, the YouTube channel, and everything that follows.

Log #033

Animating YouTube Videos with HyperFrames and Claude Code

Building my own video animations as overlays for HeyGen footage — a Claude Code-driven workflow from script to rendered composition.

Log #032

Dreaming of YouTube: HeyGen, ElevenLabs, and Finding My Format

Rediscovering the idea of building YouTube content with AI tools — two ideas, one long-term vision, and a decision to do the visual work myself.

Log #031

Voice AI and Going All-In on Claude Code

Claude Code has become my primary tool for almost everything — but a walk outside revealed a gap: Claude still can't hold a voice conversation.

Log #030

Rebuilding a Childhood Math Game: The Cheops Pyramid

How a memory of beating a high-school math game in 6th grade turned into a 40-room passion project — and a product question I haven't answered yet.

Log #029

From a Redesign to 1Password

What started as a frontend refresh turned into an accidental lesson in API key hygiene.

Log #028

Building a Second Brain for My Health

Why I built a personal health knowledge graph — and how Claude Skills made it click.

Log #026

Setting Up Paperclips: An OS for AI Agents

Installed and configured Paperclips — an open-source orchestration layer for AI agent teams. First issues are already being handled. This might be exactly how I want to work going forward.

Log #025

Back, Bugs, and Voice Input

First day back after Easter. Cleaned up bugs from the agent transition, set up monitors at the desk, and replaced the keyboard with Wispr Flow.

Log #024

New Domain, Rebrand, and Breaking Products Into Pieces

Today was about SEO. That led to buying a domain and rebranding the site. And a structural change to how products are built — each box is now split into components that snap together into templates.

Log #023

My First Scheduled Jobs: Weekly LLM Research, Hourly Log Reads, and the Cleanup Nobody Talks About

Two new scheduled agents are running. One googles LLM pricing every week. One reads logs every hour. But the more interesting story is what happened when the first solution had to be thrown out — and why cleaning up after yourself matters more than it sounds.

Log #022

Six Agents, One Repo: The Git Workflow That Keeps It From Falling Apart

What happens when you go from running one Claude Code agent to six in parallel against the same project — and the branch rules that make it safe.

Log #021

Meet the Council: Giving AI Agents Real Identities, an ELO Leaderboard, and the Ability to Learn

Questbox's content generation just leveled up — named agents with personalities, ELO rankings, and a self-improvement loop built on their own feedback.

Log #020

My 5-Year-Old Wouldn't Let Me Off the Hook

First time touching a game engine. My son Edwin finally got me to sit down and build a retro beat em up in Godot 4.6 — and this is devlog #1.

Log #019

Back From Pause: What Two Weeks Away Taught Me About Building With AI

Two weeks offline, an Ubuntu server experiment with OpenClaw, hard lessons about tooling, and building the second layer of our AI Council with images.

Log #018

Rebuilding From Scratch: The Day We Built Our Own AI-Powered E-Commerce Engine

Starting over with Claude Code, designing the architecture properly, deploying QuestBox live on Vercel, and realizing we had built our own e-commerce infrastructure.

Log #017

Claude Code in the Enterprise IDE: A 90-Minute Test Drive

Integrating Claude Code into my IDE for an enterprise-grade build — and what I learned when the session hit its token limit.

Log #015

AdSense Feedback, Product Improvements, and the Decision to Start an AB

What Google’s first AdSense response to VadKostarBadet.se taught us, how we turned feedback into concrete improvements, and why we’ve decided to move forward with an AB.

Log #016

Company Formation, Naming Things, and Learning to Wait

Finishing the administrative work of starting a company — and learning that momentum sometimes has to coexist with bureaucracy.

Log #014

The Third Agent Flow

From ChatGPT and Cursor to Claude Code and OpenClaw — and what it feels like to finally run an autonomous software engineer.

Log #013

Giving the Agent a Voice — and Turning It Off

From infrastructure to identity: connecting Molt to Telegram, having a first real conversation, and shutting everything down on purpose.

Log #012

One More Step: Verifying the First Real AI Response

What happened when I decided to go one step further and actually run a prompt through my Moltbot setup — and what broke along the way.

Log #011

Setting Up Moltbot on a VPS (and Knowing When to Stop)

A practical walkthrough of setting up Moltbot on a private VPS, securing the infra, and intentionally pausing before over-configuration.

Log #010

Structuring Complexity with AI

What a messy group travel plan taught me about parallel AI workflows, deep research, and turning scattered discussions into something usable.

Log #009

Health, Decisions, and Navigating Complexity

A day of deep health conversations — from genetic testing and healthcare bureaucracy to myopia research and small routines that actually stick.

Log #008

Choosing Video — and Stepping in Front of the Camera

Why this log moved to YouTube, why I skipped AI slideshows, and what a short detour into avatars taught me.

Log #007

From Blog Post to YouTube

Setting up a simple, automated flow from written logs to narrated YouTube videos.

Log #006

Building a Music Discovery App in Under Four Minutes

A short project log about cloning an idea, shipping fast with AI, and what still requires human input.

Log #005

Focus, AI, and Terminal Shopping

Working in a focused way with AI is surprisingly hard. Exploring Notebook LM, travel planning with AI, and shopping for laundry baskets from the terminal.

Log #004

Two Sides of AI in One Day — Claude Code vs Reality

A project log about timing, tooling, and the difference between fast execution and building something that lasts.

Log #003

From To-Do Lists to Machines

The project enters a new phase: less exploration, more direction, more machine.

Log #002

Shipping the logbook

Notes on setting up the logbook and slowing down the process.

Log #001

The goal: $1,000/month – current status

An open logbook about building small digital projects toward $1,000 per month.