The machine, agent environments, remote access, and alerting behind a one-person operation.
34 web apps, a handful of paper-trading bots, and a multilingual video pipeline — all run from a 2017 Intel laptop that just stays on. Here's the whole setup and why the old hardware helped.
Tailscale lets me watch local bot dashboards from my phone without exposing anything publicly. But tearing a bot down doesn't clear its Tailscale route — here's the gotcha that left dead ports looking alive.
The bots that make real decisions ping me on Telegram. The paper and test bots stay silent by design — a failed send there is expected, not a bug. Signal beats coverage.
The environment I run Claude Code and Codex in went through three stages. Each move solved the same problem: how do you run several agents at once and know which one needs you?