Fresh/Brewed

More Agentic Bot Battles

Wizards and trolls

Last week we deep dived on building out an agent system and I suggested I might just do some tweaks. Upon publishing that article I had open sourced it all and I did as I suggested - I added some NPCs. I added “Gary the Wizard” which one can challenge in a duel If you loose, you lose strength or health, but if you win you get to decide if you get +2 strength, health or victory points.

Agy in Zed and Agentic Bot Battles

Build a game, let em fight!

Just a week or so ago Google released Antigravity extensions for IDEs which is something I’ve been waiting for ever since Gemini Code Assist (GCA) went away. Since my primary editor is Zed, I was happy to see clear install steps for Zed. (Written way after I was done) I planned to just use Antigravity in Zed to do a quick project, but as you will see that rapidly snowballed into a deep dive into making various types of bots for a web based turn-based game. I ended up having more fun banging away on that than anything.. and you might be surprised to find what happens when we pit NodeJS vs Python heuristic bots, or Gemma4 at e4b vs 12b on Cloud vs self-hosted, lots to see…

Idp, locally, with Authentik

Can we actually do federated auth independently?

Recently I saw this Marius post on self-hosting Authentik, an Open-Source Identity Provider system. He covered the container setup, but I wasn’t really sure what one could do with it. Today we’ll look at launching it in Docker and Kubernetes. We’ll show some configuration options (as well as what is behind a paywall). Lastly, we’ll fire a up new Python based sample application (code provided) and walk through Authentik setup. Lastly, we’ll cover local users, usage and more before wrapping with some Databasus PostgreSQL backups.

Bye Windows

last box to switch to Linux

Well I did it. It was a really strange feeling, to be honest, but I pulled the plug and wiped my windows SSD and finally loaded Linux on my last working Windows. The gaming rig (whatever that has been at any given time) has always been Windows with WSL for fun and Steam for play. But every game is now supported quite well on Steam and I was tired of babying the 1Tb drive as my fun work in WSL was always bloating up the filesystem.

OS Apps: Databasus, CTRoadmap

fun stuff

Let’s take a moment to check out some open source apps that have been on my list for a bit. The first is “Databasus” which is PostgreSQL/MySQL backup service that can run locally, in docker and in Kubernetes. We’re going to try backing up some PostgreSQL DBs as well as MariaDB 10 databases to a variety of endpoints. A while back I saw this Marius post on CTRoadMap which describes itself as “Homelab Server Network Diagram & Documentation for Mapping Function Topology”. We’ll take a look at this and how to run in docker as well as externalizing with Kubernetes.