Enrique Canals

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May 2026

Writing This Post with an AI Agent That Manages This Blog

>> 2026-05-25

A meta-walkthrough of HomuncuCLAW โ€” the Hermes-powered agent that wrote, saved, and published this very post via a Telegram DM.

#rails #hermes #ai #meta
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May 2026

HomuncuCLAW: A Telegram Coding Agent on AWS for This Blog

>> 2026-05-23

How I built HomuncuCLAW โ€” a Telegram-driven Hermes coding agent on AWS โ€” that maintains this blog. SSH over Tailscale, kamal app exec into the Rails container, and a few sharp edges worth writing down.

#aws #ai-agents #harness #hermes #agents #homuncuclaw #telegram #tailscale #kamal #claw
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Apr 2026

Sandboxed Coding Agents and a Telegram Claw on a Monorepo

>> 2026-04-12

How we use harness to put a sandboxed coding agent inside our veterinary monorepo and a Telegram-reachable claw on fly.io โ€” without ever handing either of them our AWS credentials.

#rails #ai-agents #harness #docker #fly-io #security #hermes #nala
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Jun 2021

Migrating to Aurora MySQL and Rebuilding Environments with Step Functions

>> 2021-06-14

How we migrated a multi-terabyte production MySQL database to Aurora MySQL, and built a Step Functions + Lambda pipeline to rebuild our lower environments on demand.

#aws #lambda #migration #aurora #mysql #step-functions #dms #database
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Aug 2020

Replatforming from Angular.js to React + Next.js Without Going Dark

>> 2020-08-26

Notes from a year of migrating a 2014-era Angular.js + Rails monolith to React + Next.js without taking the storefront down.

#rails #react #nextjs #angular #replatform #migration #ssr #ecommerce
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