Chovy's Blog
Tech, agentic coding, and whatever else I'm building. By Anthony "chovy" Ettinger.
Summaries only, built from the RSS feed. Every post below opens on the blog itself.
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NIGHTCELL 7 now has a Play online button
Quick match and private match codes are live in NIGHTCELL 7: a free, server-authoritative 6v6 alpha where bots hold the empty seats.
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myna now has a dashboard for the posts only you can make
The hand-off cards myna makes for Hacker News, Reddit and the other places it cannot post to are now on one page at mynaposter.com/dashboard: copy, open, mark done, from a phone.
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It's all about information supremacy now, and agents are how you deploy it
How we patched 34 Next.js web apps for critical RCE advisories in under an hour with agents, and how Chovy puts the same machinery behind your web app.
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Perfection is my middlename and whatever rhymes with eloquent...
Primus is coming to Berkeley in October, a home game for the East Bay's weirdest bass band.
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Tuning a production box with 334 containers and no memory limits
How we took a shared production server from 3 GB to 32 GB of free memory in one day, watched with hqtui-demo and defended with ThreatCrush.
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The Antikythera mechanism was an astronomy app with a crank
A 2,000-year-old bronze calculator that showed Sun and Moon positions, Moon phase, eclipse months and the Olympic cycle. Its algorithm was cut into the gears.
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Off the cloud: sh1pt deploys to your own server now
sh1pt now deploys to your own server, Railway style: git or rsync, systemd, nginx and TLS, Postgres, vault secrets, instant rollback. The on-box contract is OpenInstall.
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NIGHTCELL 7 introduces its cast, and teaches you the game one control at a time
<p>NIGHTCELL 7 now has a cast page, and the game now teaches a new player how to play it. Both came out of the same gap: the story had people in it that nobody could see, and the sandbox dropped…
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PairUX 0.10.0: booking links, calendar invites, and a toll gate for AI crawlers
PairUX 0.10.0 adds Calendly-style booking links that open into a PairUX call, calendar invites with .ics on every meeting email, live and recording counts on the channel directory, and an x402 gateway that charges AI training crawlers.
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What a domain costs in year two
Every top-level domain in IANA's root, diffed daily, with register and renewal prices from four registrars and an RDAP check, on nichedb.dev/tlds.