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A colleague asked me this week how the part of my agent factory that reads GitHub mentions actually works. He wants something similar for his own repos.

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In "The Birth of My Homelab" I mentioned a new project called Mowa, short for MacOS Web API, and said more would come in a follow-up post. That was August 2025. This is the follow-up.

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I was putting Home Assistant OS on a spare Raspberry Pi 4, booting off a USB SSD, with an HDMI capture card plugged into the board so I could watch the boot on my main monitor. I powered it on, console output started scrolling, and about four and a half seconds in the screen went to NO SIGNAL and stayed there. Every boot attempt did the same thing.

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This post moved to mrls.xyz, together with the rest of the Building a Software Factory series: read it there.

I picked up Ruby because of how expressive it was. Writing it just felt nice, in a way that other languages did not. Later I found out that was deliberate: Matz designed Ruby so that programmers would enjoy using it. I then spent the better part of a decade writing Ruby and enjoying it.