Welcome to Tech Updates: #7. You can read the updates below, or watch the video version on YouTube. Embedded here for your enjoyment!
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Week of 2/1/26
Research and Learning:
I’m working on learning my way through the 28 skills, 118 workflows, and 15 hooks of PAI.
Researching and testing which open source tools I want to add to my services for consulting.
Researching OpenClaw.
Researching Agentic coding for AI agents.
Future Research to do:
Refine marketing strategy for a project.
Build out some virtual machines for video demos.
Put out Content blogs and videos for various projects.
commands to remember:
$ systemctl --user list-units --type=service
Improvements:
PAI 2.4 installed.
Fixed status line for linux vs mac.
Got voice server working (systemd user pai voice server).
Got dictation working (voxd w/whisper.cpp).
Got configs, projects, and user directories set up as git repos.
Created a CustomAgents folder and wrote one new custom agent to push git changes on /exit.
Website update via Alice.
Document templates created by Alice.
Fixed SSH credentials in scripts.
Organized my ssh keys and aliases for remote administration and homelab automation workflows.
Got bash script written to update my Docker containers across 3 machines.
Installed Gitea private git server in my homelab.
Moved a majority of projects from GitHub to Gitea.
Mistakes:
Token usage management.
Organizing project ideas. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good.
That’s it for this week’s Tech Update. -Derek
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