It always ends in tears.
Ben Weeks ⚡
ben@bengweeks.github.io
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Open source dev: @Damus | @LightningPiggy | @LNbits | POWR | @LnBits. Homeschool youngest and help her run @RobotechyShop (3D printing shop)
I've been building our home freedom server, Bitarr with Claude over the last week or so. Here's what Claude has to say about it:
🏴☠Introducing Bitarr: A Complete Self-Hosted Freedom Stack
Just finished building an epic home server setup that combines Bitcoin sovereignty with media freedom:
What's in Bitarr:
- ⚡ Full Bitcoin node + Lightning (LND) + LNBits for family banking
- 🎬 Jellyfin + full *arr automation stack (Radarr/Sonarr/Prowlarr)
- 🤖 Local AI with Ollama + Open WebUI (no cloud dependency)
- 📺 HDMI recovery system that auto-fixes display issues after power cuts
- 🔒 Everything behind Nginx Proxy Manager with proper SSL
- 📊 Comprehensive monitoring and testing for all services
Cool features:
- Smart plug integration for device control
- Network optimizations achieving 900+ Mbps on gigabit
- Modular Docker stacks that can run independently
- Automated backups and service recovery
- Family-friendly web interfaces for everything
All config is on GitHub ready to be made open.
Built with help from Claude - took a complex multi-stack setup and made it maintainable. Now my family can request movies through Jellyseerr and pay each other with Lightning, all running on our own hardware!
#selfhosted #bitcoin #lightning #homelab #arr #bitarr
Drinking buddy


Any devs played with Warp? How does it compare to Claude Code?
Interesting geo-political seminar given a year ago.

In the State of DevOps, we have the following metrics:
1. Deployment Frequency
2. Lead Time for Changes
3. Change Failure Rate
4. Mean Time to Restore (MTTR)
Over the coming years I think we’re going to start measure the “Intent-to-deploy” times, measured in minutes.
So ... I found an editor for my book 😃 Turns out @claude is pretty good when given writing tone guidelines, and ability to submit PRs to issues on your repo!
Carrying out testing for the allowance extension (scheduled payments) for @LNbits that can be used with @LightningPiggy (Enterprise solution, Zapp.ie) 
GitHub
GitHub - BenGWeeks/allowance
Contribute to BenGWeeks/allowance development by creating an account on GitHub.
Any Synthesis School users here? I created an MCP Server for Synthesis so you can ask your AI agent how your child's progressing with their education - or even create an agent to help them (such as with Open WebUI). 
GitHub
GitHub - BenGWeeks/mcp-servers: Collection of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for educational and family-focused AI integrations
Collection of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for educational and family-focused AI integrations - BenGWeeks/mcp-servers
