My resume lives in a git repo. Every time I push, a GitHub Action compiles it to PDF and drops it on a stable URL. No local toolchain needed after the initial setup, no manually uploading PDFs anywhere. Why LaTeX Word docs drift. PDFs exported from Google Docs look fine until they don’t. LaTeX gives me exact control over layout and is just a text file — diffable, versionable, no binary blobs. ...
derekwelty.com was a Bootstrap 5 single-page site built on the Start Bootstrap Freelancer template. It worked, but it hadn’t been touched in years and updating it required wading through jQuery, a Gulp pipeline, and a bunch of hand-rolled CSS. Time to replace it. The new stack: Hugo with the Congo theme, deployed to GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions. Why Hugo I already run this blog on Hugo + PaperMod via Netlify. The toolchain was familiar, the build times are fast, and Congo gave me a clean profile layout that actually looked like a personal site and not a blog template with the posts removed. ...
ChatGPT worked fine for one-off questions, but it was isolated from the systems I actually use: calendar, email, Strava, GitHub, Obsidian, Spotify, and the half-finished project notes scattered across repos. I wanted a small assistant I could run myself, with persistent memory, scheduled checks, and enough tool access to be useful without turning into a full product. So I built Molty. Architecture Molty runs on OpenClaw — an open agent platform that handles the gateway infrastructure: Telegram integration, LLM API routing, and session management. It runs on a Hostinger VPS. I didn’t build any of that. What I built is everything layered on top: the memory system, integrations, heartbeat logic, and skills. ...
I kept missing shows I would have gone to. The data was public, but checking it required a weird amount of manual attention: venue calendars, Spotify history, ticket prices, neighborhoods, and a final “would I actually leave the apartment for this?” filter. I built a weekly concert digest into Molty, my Telegram-based assistant. Every Monday morning it checks SF venues, matches artists against my Spotify library, and sends a ranked list of shows. ...