Weekend corner
A real agent setup someone shared, credited to its cook. Here’s what they did and how you can try it. Product facts are checked against official docs; the cook’s results are their own.
Bills, receipts and due dates stop piling up in your inbox. SoloTech (@solotechdev) gives Claude Duet four small jobs every day across his two companies. Thanks to SoloTech for laying out the whole routine in one short post.
Source: Example shared by @solotechdev
Stop only checking what the agent shipped. Nikunj Kothari runs Claude Code’s /insights every two weeks to find ways to improve his setup. Thanks to Nikunj for sharing the fortnightly habit, alongside his X bookmarks.
Source: Example shared by @nikunj
School dates stop living in one parent’s head and land on the family calendar and in both inboxes each morning.
One scheduled Claude Cowork task reads the family calendars, the emails from senders you name and a household to-do list, adds any event that isn’t on the calendar yet, then emails a morning briefing to both adults.
Thanks to Nisha Chittal for sharing the household “chief of staff” she built to take the family logistics out of her head.
Source: Nisha Chittal on LinkedIn: “Managing Household Logistics with AI as Chief of Staff”
Break reminders you won’t learn to tune out, with a new nag every time, written on your own computer.
Install Python and Ollama, copy the Break Buddy app, pull one small Gemma model, and a pixel hero pops up to tell you to drink water, rest your eyes or stretch, in the tone you pick.
A big thank-you to Kumuda Sri P for building it, sharing the code and writing up what broke along the way; you only copy commands and type one sentence.
Source: Kumuda Sri P on DEV: "I Built a Pixel Hero That Nags Me to Drink Water"
One giant feed, gone, and your reading shows up pre-sorted before breakfast. Give each kind of source its own Gemini schedule and its own question, so papers, release notes and forum chatter stop elbowing each other in one list.
Thanks to Kentaro Mori for laying out the whole spread, routine by routine.
Source: Kentaro Mori on DEV: "How I use scheduled actions in Gemini to keep up with technology"
A personal assistant that pays rent to nobody. Talorys keeps your chats, tasks, notes and reminders inside your own Cloudflare account, so your stuff stays yours and no monthly subscription is needed to get started.
A tip of the chef’s hat to Roc Yu for building it and sharing it with the world, plus a builder version.
Source: Roc Yu on GitHub: "Talorys: Your personal AI agent. Your own cloud."
Four little chores, zero babysitting, and ChatGPT punches in on schedule. Set them once and they ping you on time, so you stop rechecking the same tabs and stretching five-minute breaks. Hats off to Judy Sanhz for turning everyday chores into a recipe anyone can copy, plus a fancier version.
Your docs pages changed overnight, and Claude already read them. It checks a dozen pages every morning and tells you only what moved, so a new model or price change doesn’t slip past you for days.
Big thanks to Pesimmoq, whose tidy setup makes this one easy to borrow, with a no-code version too.
Source: Pesimmoq on DEV: "I built an AI coworker that works while I sleep, using nothing but Claude Code"