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A day with Sky. Illustrated screens with dummy content; Sky and the painted scenes are AI-generated.
Project 01 / 06 · Feb 2026 · AI assistant
Sky
My personal AI assistant. It's always on, runs on a server I control, and keeps track of what's waiting on me.
How it works
- 01
I message it in chat, like texting a friend.
- 02
It works on a server I control, day and night.
- 03
It keeps a list of what's done and what's waiting on me.
Why I built it
I wanted an assistant that’s always on and remembers across conversations. I also wanted to learn what it takes to run one myself.
What I learned
- Running an AI yourself means owning the boring parts: access keys, backups, and checking that a backup really restores.
- Small outages teach the most. Two of my rules came from problems that went unnoticed for a week.
- Memory works best when the AI suggests and I decide what it keeps.
Built with: Hermes · My own server · Claude Code · Codex