my friend's old Android sat in a drawer for 2 years. now it runs his whole flat
no new gadgets, one prompt. the full setup and the exact prompt are below ↓
5 minutes before he gets home he taps one button in Telegram:
/home
and by the time he opens the door:
> the lights are on
> the AC has already cooled the room
> his playlist is playing
> his PC is booted and on the desktop
the phone that did all of it never left the shelf. it's plugged in, on Wi-Fi, running one small script Opus 5.5 wrote for him
how it works:
→ Termux turns the old phone into a tiny Linux box
→ a Telegram bot sits there and waits for /home
→ Wake-on-LAN sends one packet and the PC wakes up
→ smart plugs and the AC get their commands over local Wi-Fi
→ the music starts on the speaker in the room
→ no cloud, no subscription, no new gadgets except a couple of cheap plugs
paste this into Claude Code ↓
"I have an old Android phone with Termux on my home Wi-Fi. Write a Python Telegram bot that runs there and on /home:
1. sends a Wake-on-LAN packet to my PC
2. turns on my lights and AC
3. starts my music playlist on my speaker
4. replies with what turned on
First ask me which lights, AC and speaker I have, then pick the right way to control each one. Only respond to my Telegram user ID. Add /off and make the bot start when the phone reboots. Walk me through the Termux setup one step at a time."
best upgrade a drawer phone ever got
the prompt I used. paste it into Claude with your App_Privacy_Report.ndjson:
This is my own iPhone's App Privacy Report. Read only.
1. Write a small Python script that replays the whole log as a fast live feed in the terminal: one line per event with time, app, what it accessed (location, photos, camera, mic, contacts) or which domain it contacted. Color by type, mark known ad and tracker domains in red.
2. When it ends, print a summary: which apps checked my location and how often, which touched photos, mic or camera, which talked to the most tracker domains.
3. Tell me exactly which permissions to take back and where in Settings.
runs on iPhone in a-Shell (free): python3 https://t.co/31nUqbcw38
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Grok and 8 more AI agents, all working in one office on your laptop and it can save you $1,800 a year
if you've got 5 terminal tabs of agents open right now, this swaps them for one manager you brief once.
it's called Munder Difflin, MIT licensed, free, on Mac, Windows and Linux. the README even tells you to cancel your Granola and Wispr Flow subscriptions.
how the office works:
→ every terminal gets a desk. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok, Kimi, Qwen, OpenCode, Cursor, Copilot and more, 12 CLIs in total, each running as a real process.
→ you only talk to Michael. he's your clone and the boss of the floor. you brief him once, he assigns work, routes messages between agents, and only bothers you when something actually needs a human.
→ you can watch them work. every agent is a pixel avatar on a 2D office floor. they walk to stations, envelopes fly desk to desk when they message each other, and you can click any desk to see its live terminal.
→ nobody forgets what happened yesterday. each agent keeps its own memory and mailbox, plus a shared searchable memory across the whole office. close the app, come back tomorrow, they still know.
→ autonomy on a leash. spending money, scope changes and destructive actions come back to you for approval. a circuit breaker steers, limits, then stops any agent that loops or burns through its budget.
→ a real project board. kanban tickets with dependencies, scheduled missions, per-agent token budgets and cost tracking, and a built-in code editor with git history.
→ it takes orders from outside. drop a message in Slack or hit a webhook and Michael spins up a temporary worker, replies in the thread, then shuts it down.
→ bring your own brain. plug in your own API keys or run local models through Ollama, LM Studio or vLLM.
→ it even takes dictation. hold a key, talk, and the words land in any app on your machine, transcribed locally with Whisper.
Dots gives you one assistant inside one company's plan. this gives you a whole office built from the tools you already pay for.
i spend my week digging through GitHub so you don't have to. stay tuned for the next find, and show this to the friend running 6 terminal tabs and calling it a "workflow".
question for the builders: would you trust a clone of yourself to manage your agents, or do you still want to be the one in the chair?
POV: your go-to coffee shop is slammed. The new espresso bar across the street looks a little less busy. Time to become a regular over there? Which one is actually pulling more foot traffic? How’s card spend trending at each? Until now, checking the real-time data meant opening a laptop.
Carbon Arc is now available in your pocket. 📱
Built for the curious mind between meetings, the hunch that hits on the commute, and the brain that doesn’t clock out at 6pm. Go ahead, check the data while you wait for your latte.
Explore Carbon Arc on your phone, and experience the full platform on desktop or in Claude, ChatGPT, or Perplexity.
https://t.co/xtM6PaqVXv
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