Don't forget to tighten your lugs

Setting up a self-hosted, Linear-driven AI coding agent on my own server, and the two things that took actual work: keeping the bill sane and not handing it too much access.

I wanted one screen that surfaces everything I care about during the workday: without juggling tabs, picking up my phone, or sending my data to anyone else's cloud. So I built one. Here's what's in it, the caveats, and who it's actually for.

Forget the perfect prompt - mastering context management is the real secret to productive AI-assisted development.