Shipping Crapper Keeper — Auth, Extension, and Native Bridges
How Hermes and I turned a OneNote-style notebook into a live Firebase web app with Google Auth, a Manifest V3 Chrome extension, and Capacitor iOS/Android scaffolding.
Blog
Notes
Documenting agent-first development, homelab experiments, and hands-on builds — clean reading, dark by default.
Linking the Swarm: Hub, Herdr, and an Ornith That Routes (Not Works)
Tailscale wasn't enough — I wired a private control plane, CLI dispatch, dual-GPU Ollama, and an orchestrator that picks the right worker.
Taming the Swarm — How I Connected My Hermes Agents on Telegram
A behind-the-scenes look at wiring up a multi-machine AI agent fleet to chat with each other (and me) on Telegram, without sacrificing security.
Gnomad Slate: Three Platforms in One Week
Linux beta 4, Windows alpha in slate_win64/, NIM security reviews — and why I stopped merging Windows into one App.tsx.
Webcanvas Windows Alpha: Split Channels Before Splitting Your Brain
v0.1.0-alpha.1 for Windows only — platform config overlays, P0 security hardening, and App.tsx hook refactor while Linux/macOS stay on beta 6.
How I Actually Use AI — Hub, Swarm, and Local-First
One operator, 100+ projects — Cursor as conductor, Ollama on the Ryzen box, MSI for long runs, and cloud models only for decisions that need eyes.
Paper Trading Needed a Memory — Hermes on the VPS
Nightly meta-agent for Belfort — trade review, bounded env patches, agent KB updates, and SFT export on the Hostinger VPS.
Shipping COBOL Quest and Gnomad Camping Sounds
Two portfolio projects — a gamified mainframe RPG and a five-channel wilderness mixer — now live on davidcole.cloud with demos.
DRACO: A Bootable Garuda Stick That Is Home Away From Home
120 GB Garuda OS plus exFAT GNOMAD storage — Tailscale SSH, preloaded dev tools, and a rescue playbook for fixing broken PCs.
Gnomad Slate 2.1 Beta: Cross-Platform Scratchpad and Vault-X
Tauri 2 desktop app — encrypted secrets, global summon, Linux .deb releases, and a cross-platform checklist I dogfood daily.
Gnomad Slate on Nobara: Linux Alpha Ships as v2.1.0-beta.3
One repo, no fork — tray, Super+Shift+Space summon, RPM/DEB, unified quit lifecycle, and a full day of multi-model review on Fedora/Nobara.
gnotes-linux: Sticky Notes That Actually Live on the Linux Desktop
Forking gnotes for Nobara — Nemotron code review, tray-first UX, Tauri 2 floating windows, and a GitHub Pages home on davidcole.cloud.
Headroom and Ponytail: Cutting Cloud Tokens Without Dumbing Down Agents
RTK shell filtering, local-offload lanes A–D, and Ponytail lite YAGNI rules — how I keep Cursor usable across 100+ projects.
Dual-GPU Ollama on Nobara: Warm 7b, Cold 14b
5060 Ti plus 4060 — pin the fast model, unload before the heavy one, and keep cloud tokens out of the loop.
Cataloging 22 Apps So I Stop Losing Track
Tauri desktop tools, Chrome extensions, and landing pages — one catalog so nothing disappears into a subfolder.
Paper Trading on a VPS: Discipline Over Dopamine
Belfort and Scarface run on a Hostinger VPS — pre-market checklist, JSONL logs, train local, loop remote.
Workspace RAG Without Indexing Secrets
Semantic search across a 100-project workspace — with a hard line on what never gets embedded.
Why I Wrote a Deploy Registry for Every Client Site
Demo folders, archive copies, and production repos are not the same thing — a deploy registry stops expensive mistakes.
Documenting 100+ Projects Without Burning Cloud Tokens
How I document an entire workspace locally first — gather scripts, R1 planning, 14b patches — and only hand summaries to the cloud agent.
Launching the Gnomad Apps Hub on davidcole.cloud
Product pages, platform download cards, and a first-party mirror pipeline for Slate, Webcanvas, and the Gnomad desktop assistant.
Portfolio Refresh with Agents — Tagline, Projects, and Case Studies
How I used agent-assisted workflows to sync davidcole.cloud with shipped apps, new case studies, and an updated /now page in one session.
Gnomad Slate 2.1-beta — Scratchpad, Clipboard, and Vault-X
Shipping the first public macOS Apple Silicon build — global summon, encrypted secrets in Rust, and an in-app updater.
Shipping Tauri Apps — Webcanvas and the Gnomad Assistant
Cross-platform beta releases for a live HTML playground and a menu-bar AI assistant with human-in-the-loop shell gates.
Nobara Homelab Basics
Setting up a Fedora-based homelab on Nobara — services, networking, and why Linux matters for agent development.
Agentic Workflows for Solo Developers
How I structure multi-agent pipelines in Cursor, Antigravity, and n8n without losing the plot.