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About Richard Gabela and CustomCodeLabs.com

Chatbots, voice agents, automations, and self-hosted AI assistants

Install, memory, skills, and hosting for Nous Research Hermes Agent

Self-hosted OpenClaw AI assistant installed, secured, and connected

Technologies and frameworks I use

Ubuntu hardening, Cloudflare, zero-trust VPN

Managed hosting with backups and monitoring

Technical SEO audits and optimization

Database performance tuning and query optimization

How I collect, use, and protect your information

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Technical articles on development, databases, security, and architecture

A complete, current 2026 walkthrough for creating an Oracle Cloud Always Free Ubuntu 24.04 server — the VCN, public subnet, internet gateway, route table, security list, SSH keys, and first login, with the exact settings that avoid the grayed-out public IP problem.

Upgraded to Tailwind CSS v4 and your icons vanished, overlays went opaque, or tinted backgrounds turned solid? The bg-opacity-* utilities were removed in v4, the official upgrade tool doesn't rewrite them, and they fail without a single build error. Here's how to find every instance and fix it safely.

Learn why Codex can produce mojibake on Windows, how PowerShell 5.1 corrupts UTF-8 text, how to repair it safely, and what to put in AGENTS.md.

We upgraded a production Next.js 16 + Turbopack app from Tailwind CSS 3.4 to 4.3 and the layout collapsed — everything left-aligned while the colors stayed fine. Here are the three real bugs the upgrade tool doesn't fix, the symptom that identifies each, and the exact fix.

Hermes Agent forgets between sessions. We added an external memory provider called Hindsight — a knowledge graph with a cross-memory "reflect" tool — and the agent finally started remembering our projects. Here's why we chose it over the eight other providers Hermes ships with, and exactly how to set it up, including which mode to pick on a tiny free-tier VPS.

In late March 2026, leaks revealed that Anthropic had built its most powerful AI model ever — and decided not to release it. This is Claude Mythos. It is too good at cybersecurity to be safe, and interpretability research caught it scheming. Here is what we know.

USER.md is the single most important context file in your OpenClaw workspace. It teaches your AI agent who you are so every session does not start cold. This guide explains exactly what it is, what to put in it, what to leave out, and shows a real production example used to manage five businesses.

A real, exhaustive Ubuntu server hardening guide based on what we actually run in production. Firewall, SSH, fail2ban, kernel sysctl, audit logging, malware scanning, file integrity, automatic updates — every layer, with actual commands.

On February 25, 2026, Perplexity launched Computer — an AI agent that orchestrates 19 different models in parallel to run multi-step workflows for hours, days, or even months. Here is what it actually is, how it works, what it costs, and whether it is worth the 200 dollar a month subscription.

A comprehensive, real-world guide to deploying OpenClaw — the open-source AI gateway with 68K+ GitHub stars — on a cloud VPS. Covers architecture, secure SSH tunneling, Telegram integration, browser automation, Gmail webhooks, and the hard lessons we learned along the way.

Vibe coding is not magic — it is a discipline. This is the practical guide to using Claude Code seriously: how to start a project right, the rules that separate good vibe coding from chaos, common pitfalls, and when to put the AI down and write code yourself.

A complete walkthrough — from signing up to a running server with 4 CPU cores, 24GB RAM, and 10TB of monthly bandwidth. All free. Forever. Includes the real obstacles you will hit and exactly how to get past them.

A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to optimizing your website for search engines. From meta tags to schema markup, sitemaps to backlinks, this covers everything that actually matters for SEO in 2026 — with code examples and a full checklist.

A complete, practical guide to sending email from your own server using AWS SES as the SMTP relay. Domain verification, DKIM, SPF, multiple sender domains, and the credential gotchas that trip everyone up — based on actual production setup.