Tim Trailor

I write about what I have built around Anthropic's Claude Code as a personal operating environment: the architecture, the incidents that shaped it, what I would do differently, and the specific patterns that have earned their place.

Every post is grounded in something concrete. No speculation about the future of AI.

System architecture diagram showing Mac Mini server at centre, connected to iPhone and MacBook via Tailscale VPN, to GitHub and Google Drive, and to three printers. Daemons inside the Mac Mini include conversation server, printer daemon, backup daemon, health check, memory indexer, and Streamlit HTTPS proxy, all built on a Memory MCP server using ChromaDB and SQLite FTS5.
My current setup. Mac Mini as the always-on server; devices connect via Tailscale from anywhere.

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