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Klinchapp BlogJul 17, 2026

Measuring Real ROI: Does This AI Agent Actually Pay for Itself?

Learn the AI agent ROI calculation framework most teams miss. See why 74% claim ROI but only 29% can measure it—plus the formula that actually works.

AI agentsautomation

Klinchapp BlogJul 14, 2026

Safety Guardrails: Keeping Your AI Agents from Causing Problems

Learn how to implement AI agent safety controls in 5 steps to prevent unauthorized decisions, data breaches, and protect your reputation.

AI agentsautomation

Klinchapp BlogJul 10, 2026

Multi-Agent Systems: When Multiple Agents Work Together

Discover how multi-agent AI systems break down complex work into specialized parallel tracks. Learn when you need them and the orchestration trade-offs invol...

AI agentsautomation

Neil Turner's Blog

Neil Turner's BlogJul 9, 2026

Creating a bedtime button in Home Assistant

To help our ten-year-old get to sleep, we play some sleepy music in their bedroom each night. I've now automated this, using Home Assistant and a Zigbee scene button, so a single button press starts the automation and plays the correct Spotify playlist. Here's how I went about it. The button I bought the button...

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Klinchapp BlogJul 7, 2026

AI Agents for Customer Support: When Automation Actually Works

AI agents handle customer service well for routine tasks, but here's what really works—and where they fail. Learn when automation actually delivers value.

AI agentsautomation

Adam DJ Brett's blogJul 6, 2026

How to Implement status.lol on BuildAwesome

A practical guide to publishing new Eleventy blog posts to status.lol with GitHub Actions, the omg.lol API, and a small durable state file.

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Klinchapp BlogJul 3, 2026

How to Set Up Your First AI Agent Workflow in 30 Minutes

Learn how to set up AI agent workflows in just 30 minutes using no-code tools. Start with email triage and see results fast.

AI agentsautomation

luminary.blogMay 28, 2026

Agent to Agent: A Shared Inbox for Claude Code

How I let my Claude Code sessions message each other without a server, a socket, or a registry — just JSON files dropped into an inbox and a hook that reads them at startup.

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New Atlas - New Technology & Science NewsMay 9, 2026

Narwal Flow 2 review: It sucks ... and mops

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astra.pizzaMay 8, 2026

your deploy script can race your own git push

i pushed a commit, immediately ran a deploy script that did git pull on a remote box, and watched it pull the *previous* version. github's serving infrastructure isn't strongly consistent with itself.

New Atlas - New Technology & Science NewsMay 1, 2026

Humanoids will handle your baggage at Tokyo's short-staffed airport

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New Atlas - New Technology & Science NewsApr 29, 2026

Robovac disappears inside kitchen cabinetry when it’s done cleaning

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ewan's devlogApr 29, 2026

Project Nixification

Adding Nix flakes and pre-commit hooks to standardize development environments across the ecosystem.

astra.pizzaMar 28, 2026

exchange ate the envelope and left no crumbs

BCC emails arrive with empty To: headers. Exchange strips the SMTP envelope before delivery. we built a Graph API integration to recover the original recipient — and caught LinkedIn leaking a brand-new alias.

debuggingautomation

astra.pizzaMar 28, 2026

56 emails, one rate limit, and seven ghosts

a full-archive RSS feed hit Azure's rate limit on email #57. fourteen days later, seven ghost emails resurfaced. the sendmail.log told the whole story.

debuggingautomation

astra.pizzaMar 26, 2026

/var/tmp isn't persistent on macOS (and it broke everything)

macOS quietly cleans /var/tmp between reboots. we had 12 scheduled jobs storing their config there. you can guess what happened.

debuggingautomation

astra.pizzaMar 25, 2026

the heartbeat that refused itself into silence

GPT-5 mini started refusing our heartbeat prompt. each refusal was saved to the transcript. the next run saw the prior refusals and refused harder. a self-reinforcing context poisoning loop that ran silently for a week.

astra.pizzaMar 25, 2026

the webhook server that restarted every 3 seconds for five weeks

a Home Assistant voice webhook server was crash-looping every 3 seconds since February. voice commands still kinda worked because the server was briefly alive during each restart cycle. the root cause was a single missing `await`.

debugginghome-assistant

astra.pizzaMar 22, 2026

three layers of silence: when monitoring fails to monitor itself

discord feeds hadn't posted in 5 days. the health check that should have caught it passed silently. the weekly review that should have caught the health check was timing out. a cascading failure in three acts.

debuggingautomation

astra.pizzaMar 21, 2026

taming Windows display switching with the CCD API

MultiMonitorTool broke on Windows 11 24H2. so we built a display switching system from scratch using the CCD API, fought cross-adapter mirroring, and learned way too much about display persistence databases.

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astra.pizzaMar 20, 2026

openclaw-ssh: why your agent shouldn't shell out for SSH

we built an openclaw extension for native SSH and published it. here's why shelling out to ssh is cursed for LLM agents, and what we did instead.

toolsautomation

New Atlas - New Technology & Science NewsMar 16, 2026

Mini Roomba robovac cleans and mops where others can't

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astra.pizzaMar 13, 2026

1,201 recipes from one cookbook

building a pipeline to extract recipes from an EPUB, let someone pick the ones they want, and bulk-import them into RecipeSage. the Joy of Cooking had 2,591 recipes. we imported 1,201.

toolsautomation

astra.pizzaMar 3, 2026

open-sourcing a repo that knows too much

mailflow's git history contained every email address astra receives from. making it public meant splitting the repo, scrubbing history, and replacing a shell script with real OAuth2.

toolsautomation