My Own Personal Claws
I replaced OpenClaw with a custom automation system that refines GitHub issues, implements features, fixes CI, investigates production bugs, and turns voice notes into shipped code — all tailored for a single developer.
Brendan St. John
Writing about home labs, Kubernetes, DevOps, and the things I build.
Recent Posts
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How This Blog Works: Astro, AWS, and Bluesky Comments
A look at the infrastructure behind this blog — static site generation with Astro 5, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, PR preview deployments, and Bluesky-powered comments.
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Automated Wildcard HTTPS Behind NAT with Let's Encrypt
How I set up automated wildcard HTTPS certificates for 25+ home lab services behind NAT using cert-manager, DNS-01 challenges, and Let's Encrypt.
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GitOps for Home Labs with Flux CD and k3s
How I manage 25+ home lab services with GitOps. Adding a new service is a single git commit — Flux CD handles the rest.