CHRIS KIRBY
Engineering leader. Homelab operator. Builder.
Notes from the rack and the editor. What's changing in the homelab, what I'm thinking about as an engineering leader, and what I'm building and researching with AI and agents.
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~/writing/latesthomelab · 04 Jul 2026 · 13 min read
Highly Available DNS at home with UniFi and BGP anycastMy "highly available" DNS kept failing in the one way that makes the whole house think the internet is down. So I fired keepalived and let the router handle failover. Spoiler: it hasn't missed since.
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Myco Cortex - lifecycle-driven project intelligence for your agent harness
From memory to intelligence - building at scale with agentic AI
Solving the "Groundhog Day" Problem in AI Software Development: Introducing OAK
Why Your Work Laptop Belongs in Its Own VLAN (and How to Do It)
The Joy and Agony of Building with AI Agents
Add free private AI chat to your HomeLab with Ollama and Open WebUI
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Homelab
DNS that never goes down, a UniFi network that runs itself, and services on a shelf the whole house depends on.
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Agentic Engineering
Building software with agents, and building the tooling the agents need.
5 guides →
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Privacy
A VLAN for the work laptop, and staying private on any budget.
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Platform Engineering
Azure, CI/CD pipelines, and git migrations from the years I lived in them.
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~/projects/unifi-mcpactive
UNIFI-MCP
Three MCP servers for the UniFi suite, Network, Protect and Access, plus a cloud relay so agents can reach them from anywhere. Close to 300 tools, safe by default, with a Claude Code plugin to get started.
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MYCO
The nervous system for AI-assisted software teams. Captures what happens across coding sessions, turns it into durable project knowledge, and routes the right context back to every agent and teammate. Works alongside Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and friends.
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GOONDOCKS
My independent project studio: practical open-source software and technology that supports charitable causes. Everything starts in the open. Some projects are backed by sponsors, some may grow into hosted services, and some are donated to organizations doing work that matters.
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