All posts tagged Homelab - thoughts on AI-first development, staff engineering, and building with Claude Code.
At my dad's retirement party, in the gap before England vs Norway kicked off on the garden projector, I built him a digital time capsule. Guests scanned a QR code on the big screen and left sealed notes and predictions that nobody - including me - can read until 27 March 2027. The best part was watching the counter tick up all afternoon.
At the end of my Split writeup I said the next iteration of this lifestyle wasn't a nicer office on the road - it was no office. cc-remote is the first real step: a Claude-branded Android chat client driving persistent Claude Code sessions in tmux on a Raspberry Pi 5, over Tailscale. Full-fat Claude Code, on my phone, no laptop required.
A Discord bot I help run quietly serves 1.4 million users across 11,000+ servers. It has been running since 2021. On a recent Saturday it broke - really broke - and the fix involved a Cloudflare tunnel, an old Raspberry Pi sitting in my parents' living room, and exactly zero dollars of new infrastructure. Here's the story.
I asked Claude a question this evening - 'any cars on the drive?' - and thirty seconds later it described the cars, where they were parked, and that they hadn't moved in the last ten minutes. The thing that answered wasn't a smart-home plugin or a cloud service. It was an MCP server I'd written hours earlier, bridging my home CCTV to Claude Code. Here's what I learned building it in one evening.