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Notes on building with agents, shipping solo, and keeping your droids honest.

A holographic HUD cover: a hologram of a Mac laptop running Omarchy, scanned by a pink line, beside the headline 'Omarchy on a Mac, M1 to M4'.
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Omarchy on a Mac with Apple silicon, M1 to M4

Omarchy Mac, two ways: real Omarchy on Mac hardware, or macOS styled to feel like it. The stack, the one command, and the 29% a Mac will not do.

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A holographic HUD cover: three target rings read 1 for ChatGPT, 0 for Claude and 2 for Google AI, beside the headline 'Does AI name you? 1, 0, 2 of 15'.
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Do AI answers name your product? 1, 0, 2 of 15

Ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI Mode five buyer questions and count the answers that name your product. One run lies; here is how to read the count.

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A holographic HUD cover: a hologram of one server box holding two Rails app containers, scanned by a pink line, beside the headline 'Two apps, one box'.
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Deploy Rails with Kamal on a VPS

Episode three. An empty virtual server, a Dockerfile, and one deploy command: two of my Rails apps on one box for $11.49 a month, SSL handled.

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A holographic HUD cover: a target lock on a four-pane terminal with one herdr pane, beside the headline 'Herdr on a Mac, one brew away'.
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Herdr on a Mac: Omarchy's zsh setup

herdr, Omarchy 4's agent multiplexer, was in Homebrew for macOS all along. My own parity doc called it Linux-only. Here is the port, and the apology.

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A holographic HUD cover: a target lock on a database with a cost gauge at $0, beside the headline 'M10 to $0 a month'.
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Downgrade to Free Tier for MongoDB

How I migrated from a paid M10 MongoDB Atlas cluster to the free tier without any downtime. Step-by-step walkthrough using mongodump and mongorestore.

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