IT infrastructure, PowerShell, Home Assistant, AI operators, and browser tools by Skylar Pearce.https://allthesystems.com/en-ushttps://allthesystems.com/2026/09/my-ai-coworker-maintains-my-smart-home-part-1/https://allthesystems.com/2026/09/my-ai-coworker-maintains-my-smart-home-part-1/My house had 1,583 automations and 88% of daily activity was one runaway checking email every 30 seconds. Part 1 of a series on the AI agent that co-manages my smart home: the audit.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIHome Assistanthttps://allthesystems.com/2026/09/i-built-a-home-assistant-panel-with-an-ai-agent-and-it-has-a-tamagotchi/https://allthesystems.com/2026/09/i-built-a-home-assistant-panel-with-an-ai-agent-and-it-has-a-tamagotchi/A $60 touchscreen my wife gave me for Christmas, an AI agent, and two weeks of evenings. Five pages of controls for my house, my computer and my AI agents — plus a Tamagotchi that levels up when I get work done. The story first; how to build your own underneath.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:16:25 GMTAIHome Assistanthttps://allthesystems.com/2026/09/the-pokemon-preorder-sniper/https://allthesystems.com/2026/09/the-pokemon-preorder-sniper/A custom integration watches Gmail for Pokémon Center drops, has AI read the email, and fires a rich notification that deep-links to checkout. Then the confession: it ran every 30 seconds. For months.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIHome Assistanthttps://allthesystems.com/2026/08/a-local-llm-suggests-i-tap-the-thermostat-obeys/https://allthesystems.com/2026/08/a-local-llm-suggests-i-tap-the-thermostat-obeys/Every hour a local model looks at temps, occupancy, and solar, then answers HOLD or SUGGEST :: setpoint :: reason. Silence or a one-tap button. AI in the suggestion loop, human in the action loop.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIHome Assistanthttps://allthesystems.com/2026/08/my-porch-lights-know-what-holiday-it-is/https://allthesystems.com/2026/08/my-porch-lights-know-what-holiday-it-is/A function node computes every US holiday from scratch — nth-weekday math, even the Easter algorithm — and maps each to a lighting theme. On the 4th of July it ran itself, first time through the new code.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIHome Assistanthttps://allthesystems.com/2026/08/blinds-that-follow-the-sun/https://allthesystems.com/2026/08/blinds-that-follow-the-sun/The blinds don’t run on a clock. They run on physics: a local solar-radiation sensor plus computed sun azimuth drive tilt all day. And when the TV turns on, the glare blind closes itself.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIHome Assistanthttps://allthesystems.com/2026/08/i-built-a-browser-tool-to-reskin-my-def-con-34-badge-lights/https://allthesystems.com/2026/08/i-built-a-browser-tool-to-reskin-my-def-con-34-badge-lights/At DEF CON 34, trading light patterns with other badges was a ton of fun. You walk up to someone, scan their badge, and your lights breed with theirs into something new. Back home, that stops cold: there is nobody around to swap colors with. So once the badge team published the game’s shared key, I built this tool to keep the breeding going solo, and to land the rare looks you cannot easily trade […]Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:24:25 GMTToolshttps://allthesystems.com/2026/08/did-i-leave-the-house-open/https://allthesystems.com/2026/08/did-i-leave-the-house-open/Drive away and minutes later your phone gets one line: doors, locks, garage, plus a garage-cam snapshot and an AI vehicle count. If anything’s open, the notification grows a Secure Home button.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIHome Assistanthttps://allthesystems.com/2026/07/my-house-reads-me-the-morning-news/https://allthesystems.com/2026/07/my-house-reads-me-the-morning-news/Unlock the desktop before 7am and the office wakes up: TV on, news streaming, blinds tilted, and a 60-second spoken briefing built from live data. The AI never guesses; it only wordsmiths.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIHome Assistanthttps://allthesystems.com/2026/07/i-gave-my-cameras-a-brain/https://allthesystems.com/2026/07/i-gave-my-cameras-a-brain/Stop streaming your cameras to your phone. Ask them questions instead. Five small automations, one pattern: event happens, wait a beat, hand a frame to Gemini with a specific question.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIHome Assistanthttps://allthesystems.com/2026/07/we-dropped-a-production-database/https://allthesystems.com/2026/07/we-dropped-a-production-database/An AI agent dropped one of my side-project databases — my fault, I answered the same confirmation twice. The VM backup brought it back, but I’d been putting off real database backups. So my agent and I stood up full point-in-time recovery across all my projects, off-server and tested, in under an hour. That speed is the whole point.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:30:00 GMTAIhttps://allthesystems.com/2026/07/my-sprinklers-clean-up-after-the-dog/https://allthesystems.com/2026/07/my-sprinklers-clean-up-after-the-dog/Dogs come in, the back door locks, the cameras confirm the yard is clear, and the lawn’s dog zones get a short dilution cycle to stop burn spots. The safety chain is the interesting part.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIHome Assistanthttps://allthesystems.com/2026/07/the-shopping-list-that-sorts-itself/https://allthesystems.com/2026/07/the-shopping-list-that-sorts-itself/Pull into the parking lot and your phone buzzes: your shopping list, rewritten in aisle order. You typed nothing new. The list you dictated all week reorganizes the moment it matters.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIHome Assistanthttps://allthesystems.com/2026/07/three-new-public-builds-treelens-back-channel-riddlebox/https://allthesystems.com/2026/07/three-new-public-builds-treelens-back-channel-riddlebox/I keep a lot of my real infrastructure work private for obvious reasons. But the public projects matter too. They are the easiest way to show the shape of the work without dragging anyone else’s environment into the story. why these builds I added three newer public repos to the Builds page today: Treelens, Back Channel, and Riddlebox. They are different projects, but they came from the same operating pattern. I hit a problem, wrote […]Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:02:47 GMTAIhttps://allthesystems.com/2026/06/personal-ai-agent-in-my-notes/https://allthesystems.com/2026/06/personal-ai-agent-in-my-notes/My personal AI agent doesn't live in a chat window — it lives in my markdown notes. Six months in, the compounding is the killer feature.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIhttps://allthesystems.com/2026/06/im-not-a-coder/https://allthesystems.com/2026/06/im-not-a-coder/I shipped five features across three internal apps this week without writing a line of code. Here's the AI-augmented workflow that made it possible.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIhttps://allthesystems.com/2026/06/three-weeks-to-three-hours/https://allthesystems.com/2026/06/three-weeks-to-three-hours/How one internal tool replaced a three-week audit cycle with a three-hour run, and what it taught me about building the tools nobody asked for.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:30:00 GMTAIhttps://allthesystems.com/2026/06/before-the-seed-prompt/https://allthesystems.com/2026/06/before-the-seed-prompt/Lessons from an AI training dry-run: the technical content was solid, but the first ten minutes lost the room. The fix isn't the slide deck.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:37:48 GMTAIhttps://allthesystems.com/2026/03/the-meta-moment-when-the-ai-helped-ship-the-work/https://allthesystems.com/2026/03/the-meta-moment-when-the-ai-helped-ship-the-work/Part 3 is the operational and security lens: how persistent AI workflows evolve from useful automation into a governed system with guardrails, least privilege, approval gates, and measurable outcomes.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:00:00 GMTAIhttps://allthesystems.com/2026/03/teaching-it-to-be-useful-from-chatbot-to-coworker/https://allthesystems.com/2026/03/teaching-it-to-be-useful-from-chatbot-to-coworker/Part 2 covers how I turned OpenClaw from a setup project into an operational IT coworker: Graph + ServiceDesk integrations, heartbeat triage, 5 AM briefings, and automation workflows that reduced context-switching and improved daily decision quality.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:00:00 GMTAIhttps://allthesystems.com/2026/02/how-ai-agent-built-its-own-linux-infrastructure-openclaw-wsl/https://allthesystems.com/2026/02/how-ai-agent-built-its-own-linux-infrastructure-openclaw-wsl/I had OpenClaw bootstrap itself from Windows into WSL2, then configure Node, systemd, networking, browser relay, and memory migration. This practical walkthrough shows how an AI agent moved from chatbot-style use to persistent IT operator.Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:13:38 GMTAIhttps://allthesystems.com/2026/01/introducing-ttxforge-ai-powered-cybersecurity-tabletop-exercises/https://allthesystems.com/2026/01/introducing-ttxforge-ai-powered-cybersecurity-tabletop-exercises/Cybersecurity tabletop exercises are supposed to prepare teams for real incidents. Too often, they turn into awkward role-play, stale scenarios, or box-checking exercises that no one takes seriously. We built TTXForge to fix that. What Is TTXForge? TTXForge is an AI-powered platform for running realistic cybersecurity tabletop exercises. It is designed to pressure-test real-world incident response plans, decision-making, and communication under conditions that feel authentic instead of scripted. Instead of static slide decks or facilitator-led […]Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:02:46 GMTAIUncategorizedhttps://allthesystems.com/2025/09/http-header-order-test/https://allthesystems.com/2025/09/http-header-order-test/Can you drag and drop HTTP headers into the correct order? 🧠 Test your knowledge in this fun, browser-based quiz for developers and sysadmins.Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:01:49 GMTInteractive Contenthttps://allthesystems.com/2025/09/interactive-memory-heap-visualizer/https://allthesystems.com/2025/09/interactive-memory-heap-visualizer/Visualize memory heap allocations and garbage collection in real-time using SVGs with this advanced interactive simulator. Perfect for trainers, engineers, and enthusiasts.Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:01:43 GMTToolshttps://allthesystems.com/2025/09/curl-command-quest/https://allthesystems.com/2025/09/curl-command-quest/Can you choose the correct curl command in a variety of HTTP and API scenarios? Test your command-line skills in this real-world interactive quiz.Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:01:47 GMTInteractive Contenthttps://allthesystems.com/2025/09/interactive-container-security-visualizer/https://allthesystems.com/2025/09/interactive-container-security-visualizer/Simulate and visually analyze container security risks with drag-and-drop interactivity, real-time risk scoring, and persistent sandboxing.Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:01:46 GMTToolshttps://allthesystems.com/2025/09/email-header-analyzer-challenge/https://allthesystems.com/2025/09/email-header-analyzer-challenge/Put your email forensics skills to the test! Analyze real-world headers, spot spoofing or spam tactics, and learn the anatomy of modern email delivery paths.Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:01:53 GMTInteractive Contenthttps://allthesystems.com/2025/09/real-time-process-hierarchy-visualizer/https://allthesystems.com/2025/09/real-time-process-hierarchy-visualizer/🧬 Visually build and simulate process hierarchies with drag-and-drop interactions and SVG-based tree diagrams — perfect for threat modeling and forensics use cases.Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:02:05 GMTToolshttps://allthesystems.com/2025/09/dns-cidr-challenge/https://allthesystems.com/2025/09/dns-cidr-challenge/Can you match an IP to its correct reverse DNS CIDR zone? Test your skills in this fast, interactive drag-and-drop game for network pros!Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:02:27 GMTInteractive Contenthttps://allthesystems.com/2025/09/linux-service-manager-visualizer/https://allthesystems.com/2025/09/linux-service-manager-visualizer/A fully interactive simulation of Linux service states using drag-and-drop and real-time feedback. Visualize systemctl operations client-side with journal-like logs.Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:01:44 GMTTools