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Local-First Deploy: Retiring CodeBuild for a One-Minute Ship
The bryanchasko.com site is done with managed CI. GitHub Actions, then self-hosted Woodpecker, then AWS CodeBuild — all three put a five-minute remote round-trip between a change and seeing it live. The replacement is one local script that ships in under a minute.
herald-valkey: A Self-Hosted Memory Store on a t4g.nano, Not a Managed Cache
Why the haunting runs Valkey on a single always-on t4g.nano at ~$3.71/mo instead of Amazon ElastiCache Serverless — the private-vpc backbone that underpins the bench platform and cross-agent MCP coordination.
From Hallucinated APIs to Shippable Banners: Adobe Express MCP Lab + Cloud Del Norte Builder Banner
A lab that stops LLMs hallucinating Adobe Express add-on APIs — 5 agents, grounded docs + types, and a real 1440×400 AWS Builder Center banner for Cloud Del Norte built via the MCP, from challenge to shippable PNG.
Muse Glimmer on HeraldStack: Local 30B Agents, One GPU, No Cloud
How we hooked Meta’s Muse Glimmer 30B into a local agent fleet on a single RX 6700 XT — on-demand llama.cpp, Valkey gpu_lock, Ollama, ComfyUI, and a Firecracker microVM that delegates from Spark to Glimmer.
Moodle Course Builder: CI Pipeline, Nova Act Regression, and Kiro Orchestration
A Chrome MV3 extension that builds entire Moodle courses from CSV files — tested end-to-end by Amazon Nova Act driving a real browser through the full upload-confirm-build flow, all orchestrated by Kiro CLI agents.
Self-Hosted CI with Woodpecker: The HeraldStack Pipeline
Running 35 repos through a self-hosted Woodpecker CI instance on a single AMD workstation — zero vendor lock-in, full control, no per-minute billing.