Phil | Rentier Digital Automation

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Claude Code in production. What works, what breaks, what ships.

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Dev/DevOps building with Claude Code daily. OpenClaw, automation, AI agents. I test everything and share what actually works.

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Spotify Built “Honk” to Replace Coding. I Built My Own for $15.

Cool. Neither have I. The difference is nobody held an earnings call about my setup. Probably because it runs on a $5 VPS and some duct-tape n8n workflows instead of a proprietary system with a cute name and a PR team. TL;DR: Spotify's "Honk" is not ...

15h ago10 min read

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Claude Code Now Lets You Code From Your Phone. Here's What I Learned the Hard Way.

I was in a taxi heading to the beach when the Vercel email hit. Production down. Deployment failed. I stared at my phone for a second. Then I remembered: Claude Code has a web version now. Works from mobile. I'd been meaning to try it. So I did the r...

18h ago8 min read

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I Replaced Supabase with Convex and Self-Hosted It for Free. Here's the Full Guide.

12 Docker containers for Supabase, one for Convex — and zero bandwidth limits when you self-host it. Full migration playbook inside. I was wrapping up a coding session, ready to grab a piña colada on the terrace. Then: a Convex alert. Usage limit al...

1d ago11 min read

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Agent Harness Engineering: What 8 Months in Production Taught Me

Same model. 36 points higher on benchmarks. The fix was never the model. Anthropic gave Opus 4.5 a high-level prompt to build a production web app. It failed. Not because the model was bad. Because it tried to one-shot everything (admit it, you do th...

2d ago12 min read

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11ty : how to use the image plugin to generate responsive images for CSS

I wanted to use the Eleventy plugin to process an image and set it as a div background. My initial approach involved using the following Eleventy shortcode and CSS: {% image "bg.png", "photo", [300, 600], "(min-width: 30em) 50vw, 100vw" %} .backgrou...

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Spotify Built “Honk” to Replace Coding. I Built My Own for $15.

Claude Code Now Lets You Code From Your Phone. Here's What I Learned the Hard Way.

I Replaced Supabase with Convex and Self-Hosted It for Free. Here's the Full Guide.

Agent Harness Engineering: What 8 Months in Production Taught Me

11ty : how to use the image plugin to generate responsive images for CSS

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Phil | Rentier Digital Automation's blogs

Recently published

Spotify Built “Honk” to Replace Coding. I Built My Own for $15.

Claude Code Now Lets You Code From Your Phone. Here's What I Learned the Hard Way.

I Replaced Supabase with Convex and Self-Hosted It for Free. Here's the Full Guide.

Agent Harness Engineering: What 8 Months in Production Taught Me

11ty : how to use the image plugin to generate responsive images for CSS