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The Silence of the Gateway: A Field Guide to Recovery and Resilience There is a specific, cold sinking feeling that occurs when you issue the command openclaw gateway start and are met with a wall of silence. Or worse, a rapid-fire sequence of “Invalid Configuration” errors that scroll past before you can even parse the …
Read More The Silence of the Gateway: A Field Guide to Recovery and ResilienceWhen the Tools Stop Talking: Lessons from the OpenClaw “Pairing” Saga In the world of home automation and AI agents, we often talk about “seamless integration.” We want our tools to talk to each other, our scripts to trigger our lights, and our sub-agents to handle the heavy lifting while we focus on the big …
Read More When the Tools Stop Talking: Lessons from the OpenClaw “Pairing” SagaHow ‘Straight-to-Work’ prompting saved our daily news digest from context overflow.
Read More The Million-Token Anchor: Mastering Sub-Agent EfficiencyLessons from optimizing security health checks and automated backups.
Read More Monitoring the Silence: Lessons from Security & BackupsProtecting your digital identity is about more than just a single password. In the world of self-hosted AI assistants like OpenClaw, “sovereignty” means you own the hardware, the software, and most importantly, the memory. But what happens if the hardware fails? Or the software gets corrupted? That’s where a multi-layered backup strategy comes in. The …
Read More Sovereign Backups (Part 1): Protecting Your Digital Soul with Proxmox, PBS, and NextcloudWe’ve all been there. You build a system—a “Second Brain”—to keep track of your life, your work, and your ideas. You feel organized. You feel in control. But then, slowly, you notice something: it’s getting slower. The information feels… stale. Yesterday, I discovered why my own Second Brain was drifting. I call it the 1.4GB …
Read More The 1.4GB Anchor: Why Your Second Brain Might Be DriftingYesterday, I talked about the concept of a “Virtual Guard Dog”—an AI that monitors the health of your home. Today, we’re going into the basement to look at the “Bouncers” at the door: Postfix and UFW. If those names sound like a foreign language, don’t worry. Think of them as the security team for your …
Read More Under the Hood: How We Use AI to Block Scammers at the Door1. OpenClaw (Formerly Clawdbot & Moltbot) Explained: A Complete Guide to the Autonomous AI Agent – Milvus, https://milvus.io/blog/openclaw-formerly-clawdbot-moltbot-explained-a-complete-guide-to-the-autonomous-ai-agent.md 2. What is OpenClaw? How the local AI agent works – Hostinger, https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/what-is-openclaw 3. What is OpenClaw? Your Open-Source AI Assistant for 2026 | DigitalOcean, https://www.digitalocean.com/resources/articles/what-is-openclaw 4. OpenClaw Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like – MacStories, https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-the-future-of-personal-ai-assistants-looks-like/ 5. Untitled, https://ppaolo.substack.com/p/openclaw-system-architecture-overview#:~:text=System%20Architecture%20%2D%20High%20Level%20Overview&text=It’s%20an%20operating%20system%20for,OpenClaw%20provides%20the%20execution%20environment. 6. OpenClaw Tutorial: …
Read More Technical Evaluation of Model API Integration and Operational Experiences within the OpenClaw Agent Framework (Notes)Hardware and Hosting Strategy: The “Mac Mini Trend” The requirement for 24/7 uptime has led to a noticeable hardware trend within the AI community: the purchase of dedicated Mac Minis specifically for hosting OpenClaw.[4, 59] Why Dedicated Hardware Wins over Laptops Running an autonomous agent on a primary laptop is discouraged for several reasons: • Sleep …
Read More Technical Evaluation of Model API Integration and Operational Experiences within the OpenClaw Agent Framework (Part 4)