I break things, then write about it.
Linux, self-hosted projects and AI coding tools, usually right after something has gone wrong.
I Made My AI Tools Ask Permission
For a couple of months I tinkered with an idea: let several AI coding tools work as one crew without letting any of them touch what they should not. Tonight it became a real, free, open-source release candidate called GovernCode.
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Something That Really Looks Awesome
One vague sentence at five in the afternoon. By half past nine my AI team had a real GUI with a name, a cat, two Mac apps and a private network. Vibe coding can be that easy. Sometimes.
I Promoted the One I Was Going to Cancel
I gave four AI assistants a chain of command, a spending limit and code names, then spent the night finding out that the tools I built to supervise them kept reporting jobs finished while the jobs were still running.
I Only Wanted Two Subscriptions
I wanted to save twenty bucks on AI subscriptions. That somehow required a searchable archive, a server, and a laptop refusing to recognise its own login.
The Droid You Are Looking For
My second Omarchy plugin mirrors an Android phone onto the desktop. Most of the actual work was deciding when software is allowed to guess on your behalf, and when it absolutely is not.
It Broke My GPU and I Like It Anyway
Omarchy cost me half a GPU, a monitor running at a third its refresh rate, and an entire website. I am still here, and my computer is fun again for the first time in years.
Zero Is a Lie
My first published Omarchy plugin started as a lazy wrapper around btop and ended with me ripping btop out entirely. Along the way I had to decide what a system monitor is allowed to say when it genuinely does not know something.
Tested. Deployed. Wrong Anyway.
147 tests, a proven arithmetic fix, a clean deployment. Then I actually used the thing for ten minutes and found four bugs the tests were structurally incapable of seeing.
The Server Was Never Down
A medication tracker I built for myself started refusing to connect, from every device, while the server sat there perfectly healthy the entire time. The bug was a ghost, and I built it myself months earlier without noticing.
Half a GPU
My laptop GPU was quietly running at half power on Omarchy, after a full year of this exact machine giving me zero problems. Took less than a week to notice, and I still almost talked myself out of it.
Things I built
Native Omarchy Shell plugin. Reads Linux telemetry straight from /proc and sysfs and takes every colour from the active theme.
Plugin OmaDroidMirror and control an Android phone from the desktop. No root, no Samsung account, no paid tier.
Open source GovernCodeFree, open-source tool that lets several AI coding tools work as one crew inside a Linux sandbox.