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I’ve been giving my AI assistant access to more tools recently. Email seems useful: it can send me a finished result or email someone when I’ve explicitly asked it to. I didn’t really want to just hand it my personal SMTP credentials, use a paid SaaS or have it send emails from a random domain. I ended up building terraform-aws-agent-mail, an OpenTofu/Terraform module which puts a small Lambda between the agent and Amazon SES. This should be relatively cheap and easily customisable to my use case. ...

We’re well into the age where an agent can build a dynamic website end to end: writing the code, testing the UI with a browser and managing the database. The models are also capable enough to manage the infrastructure. I’ve been looking for a way to give an agent the freedom to deploy websites without also giving it the freedom to wreck everything else I run. ...

I’ve been making use of Cursor a lot recently (an AI code editor) and wanted to know how useful MCP plugins could be. While there is a massive set of community and reference servers out there, I wanted to start off by looking at the protocol a little bit and writing my own server. I’m late to this party so finding an idea for a server I might actually use that doesn’t already exist isn’t so easy. I’ve ended up writing a Perl MCP server that is designed to help Cursor debug and generally write better Perl code. It might be there’s not many people regularly writing Perl who would make an MCP server in their spare time. ...

Now that my blog is live, it seems like a good time to talk about how I consume blogs/news from other sources. I like to use RSS to get updates on content I really care about rather than letting algorithms decide what is best to show me. FreshRSS This is the feed aggregator of choice. There are local-only clients which I’ll talk about later, but it’s nice to have some state synced between devices. For this, I use a self-hosted option FreshRSS. ...

I’ve been reading more blog posts recently and decided I should join in. In this post, I’ll walk you through setting up a personal blog using Hugo and Cloudflare Pages. This is designed to get me up and running quickly. This isn’t meant to be a guide but just a log of what I’ve done. Hugo setup Do the base init as per the quick start. brew install hugo hugo new site . git init git submodule add https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod.git themes/PaperMod echo "theme = 'PaperMod'" > hugo.toml Trying out Cursor, next ask to do some admin ...