Insights & Playbooks

Three GPUs, One Coding Agent: Running OpenCode on Local Models Over Tailscale

Three NVIDIA boxes, one coding agent, no cloud bill. The models were the easy 80% — the real fight was a silent CPU fallback, a Windows firewall eating one port, and an agent that broke down trying to say hello.

By Sean O'Dea

Your MCP Chrome DevTools Bridge Isn't Broken. Your Port Proxy Is Pointing At The Wrong Address Family.

Driving Chrome from inside WSL2 via MCP DevTools fails when your netsh portproxy rule points at the wrong address family. The fix is one netstat check away — but the Microsoft docs (and the AI tools that learned from them) get it wrong half the time.

By Sean O'Dea

How We Cut a Kubernetes Bill 93% and Saved a Customer Thousands

By Sean O'Dea

Self-Hosted SearXNG for Claude Code

Why I replaced Claude Code's built-in WebSearch with a local SearXNG container, and how I wired it up in about ten minutes.

By Sean O'Dea

Paw Prints in the Digital Sand: Dodgin' AI Scammers Like a Rogue Wave Wipeout

Jax Harlan shares cybersecurity wisdom from Cocoa Beach on how to protect yourself from AI-powered scams. Learn why you can't trust phone calls, SMS, or email anymore—and the simple defenses that'll keep scammers from stealing your sand dollars.

By Sean O'Dea

When "Debug Code" Becomes a Backdoor: A Real-World Security Audit Case Study

How a routine security engagement uncovered 50+ vulnerabilities in a production financial application, including a remote code execution backdoor hiding in plain sight.

By Sean O'Dea

Building Scalable APIs with Laravel 12: A Complete Guide

Learn how to build production-ready, scalable APIs with Laravel 12 using best practices for authentication, rate limiting, caching, and performance optimization.

By Sean O'Dea

Migrating from .NET Framework to .NET 8: Lessons Learned

A practical guide to migrating legacy .NET Framework applications to .NET 8, including common pitfalls, migration strategies, and performance improvements we've seen.

By Sean O'Dea

Control Plane: Modern Kubernetes Without the Complexity

How we use Control Plane to deploy and manage our applications across multiple cloud providers without the overhead of managing Kubernetes clusters directly.

By Sean O'Dea

Event-Driven Architecture with Laravel and C#: A Hybrid Approach

Learn how we combine Laravel and C# in an event-driven architecture using message queues for high-performance, scalable applications.

By Sean O'Dea

Integrating AI into Your Laravel Application: A Practical Guide

A hands-on guide to adding AI capabilities to your Laravel applications using OpenAI, Claude, and local models for content generation, classification, and more.

By Sean O'Dea

Pest Testing in Laravel: Beyond the Basics

Take your Pest testing skills to the next level with advanced techniques including parallel testing, custom expectations, and architecture testing.

By Sean O'Dea