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░░░ self.md Radar — 2026-02-21 ░░░

BrainRotGuard — vibe-engineered parental AI gatekeeper

someone just built a self-hosted YouTube approval system for their kid. not “block YouTube” or “trust YouTube Kids” — a manual gate where the kid searches, picks a video, and waits for parent approval before it plays.

the project is called BrainRotGuard. it solves a problem that used to be “set screen time limits” and is now “build deployment pipelines for algorithm outputs.”

parenting has become infrastructure work.

https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1r9u2x4/brainrotguard_i_vibedengineered_a_selfhosted/


claude-code-telegram — Claude Code goes remote

a Telegram bot that provides remote access to Claude Code with full AI assistance and session persistence. developers can interact with their projects from anywhere.

coding from anywhere. agent access via messaging. distributed workflow.

https://github.com/RichardAtCT/claude-code-telegram


Gaia — proactive personal assistant inspired by Jarvis

not another reactive chatbot — proactive assistant that anticipates needs, learns patterns, and takes initiative.

the shift from “ask the bot” to “the bot knows.”

https://github.com/theexperiencecompany/gaia


clawsec — security skill suite for OpenClaw agents

complete security skill suite for OpenClaw family of agents. drift detection, live security recommendations, automated audits, skill integrity verification. protects SOUL.md and agent identity from tampering.

as agents gain autonomy, agent safety becomes personal security. your SOUL.md is your identity file — it needs protection.

https://github.com/prompt-security/clawsec


Simon Willison’s “Beats” — activity streams as blog content

Simon added “beats” (story beats) to his blog — TILs, releases, museums, tools, research — all corresponding to activity elsewhere. personal site as aggregator of distributed activity.

your life is a repo → your blog is the canonical view of your work across platforms. centralize the narrative, not the data.

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/20/beats/


ggml.ai joins Hugging Face — local AI consolidation

Georgi Gerganov (llama.cpp creator) and ggml.ai acquired by Hugging Face. llama.cpp made local models accessible to non-ML-engineers in March 2023. now consolidating under HF to ensure long-term progress of local AI.

local-first AI infrastructure. running models on your hardware, not someone else’s cloud.

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/20/ggmlai-joins-hugging-face/https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759


Andrej Karpathy on “Claws” — Mac Mini tinker culture

Karpathy bought a Mac Mini to tinker with Claws (Claude-based agents). Apple Store person said “selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused.” he’s “sus’d to run OpenClaw specifically” but loves the concept.

the shift from “install software” to “run agents.” personal AI as hardware purchase driver.

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/21/claws/https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126


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the pattern: people are buying hardware, self-hosting services, and running agents locally — not because they’re hobbyists or engineers, but because that’s what it takes to run a personal AI system.

you are no longer a user. you are a sysadmin.

your computer is no longer a terminal. it’s a server.

your life is no longer a collection of accounts on other people’s platforms. it’s a repo, and you’re running the host.

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