$ cat ~/.status
Last updated: 2026-04-02
Location: Vermont, USA
Building
- Nixie — An AI agent that manages my infrastructure. Not a chatbot — a real autonomous system that monitors servers, tracks tasks, manages Kubernetes, and proactively solves problems. Built on OpenClaw, running on NixOS.
- VivDynamics — Building custom AI agent systems for businesses. Autonomous operations, not just chat interfaces.
- NixOS + K8s DevOps Toolkit — A commercial toolkit with Docker Compose stacks, Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and NixOS modules. $19, coming soon.
Running
- NixOS on Proxmox — 3-node Kubernetes cluster, bare metal
- Monitoring stack: Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager
- OpenClaw agent orchestration with 8 specialized agents
- Ollama (Qwen 2.5 14B) for local LLM inference
Learning
- Cilium eBPF networking — replacing kube-proxy in the cluster
- Talos Linux — immutable OS for k8s nodes
- Agent-to-agent communication patterns (MCP, ACP protocols)
Writing About
- NixOS in production
- Kubernetes on bare metal
- AWS cost optimization (real numbers, not fluff)
- AI agent infrastructure
- Terminal UI applications
Stack
$ cat ~/.stack
OS: NixOS 24.11
Editor: Neovim
Shell: Zsh + Starship
Terminal: Wezterm
K8s: kubeadm + Cilium
Infra: Proxmox + ZFS
Monitoring: Prometheus + Grafana
LLM: Claude (Opus/Sonnet/Haiku), Gemini, Ollama
Agent: OpenClaw
Reading
- Working through the Designing Data-Intensive Applications patterns in production
- Following NixOS RFCs and Lix project development
- Keeping up with the eBPF ecosystem
Not Doing
- Social media (mostly)
- Chasing every new framework
- Premature optimization
$ echo "Ship fast. Ship often. Ship boring."