Automation & AI agentsRoutines — the laptop's own maintenance crew
Routines — the laptop's own maintenance crew
The laptop’s own maintenance crew: a morning digest, an audit of the local model, closing SSH against password guessing, fixing the wallpaper.
What it is
A machine stays fit for work on small chores nobody remembers to do, never on big decisions: look at what changed overnight, check whether the local model still answers, close a port left open to the world, put back a setting that reset itself. Each takes three minutes on its own, and that is why they never get done.
The routines do them on a schedule and without comment. Closing SSH stands out among them: a port left open to the world is hammered with password guesses around the clock, and that is not a hypothesis but what shows up in the log of any machine with a public address.
Specifications: Node.js and PowerShell, with some tasks registered in the Windows Task Scheduler and fired by time, others by event. The work is deliberately unglamorous: half of what keeps a machine working is chores dull enough to skip.
Nearby work
Zero — an offline voice assistantA voice assistant that wakes on its name and thinks on the laptop’s graphics card: no internet, no login, an answer in 0.3–0.6 seconds.My own automation serverMy own server carrying over a hundred automations around the clock: bots, digests, finance, reminders, nightly backups, app synchronisation.Quality Watchdog — a guard that reads the automations themselvesA watchdog that reads how the automations are built rather than the run log, and catches what breaks silently.