https://armanghev.com/blog Notes by Arman Ghevondyan on building developer tools, AI infrastructure, and full-stack products. en-us Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://armanghev.com/blog/from-noteably-to-onsen https://armanghev.com/blog/from-noteably-to-onsen My first app was an AI study buddy I overengineered into the ground. Onsen is the rebuild, and its waitlist is open today. Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT onsen personal https://armanghev.com/blog/source-available https://armanghev.com/blog/source-available orchestrat is public under the Elastic License 2.0. What that lets you do, the one thing it rules out, and why I picked a license that leaves room for hosted plans later. Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT orchestrat licensing self-hosting https://armanghev.com/blog/starting-a-homelab https://armanghev.com/blog/starting-a-homelab Two tiny single-board computers, a microSD card that hasn't shown up yet, and the plan for a 10-inch rack on my desk. Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT homelab self-hosting pai https://armanghev.com/blog/pai-and-plaid https://armanghev.com/blog/pai-and-plaid How Pai connects to my bank and brokerage through Plaid without being able to move a cent, hides every number behind a spoiler, and keeps money away from the model by default. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT pai plaid security https://armanghev.com/blog/pai-and-canvas https://armanghev.com/blog/pai-and-canvas How Pai turns Canvas into a study plan that fits around a work shift, tells me exactly what changed, and learns how long my work really takes. Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT pai canvas agents https://armanghev.com/blog/pai https://armanghev.com/blog/pai Why I built Pai, a Telegram assistant that plans study time around a full-time job, sends the reminders I'd forget, and stays read-only around anything that matters. Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT pai agents claude https://armanghev.com/blog/how-i-build-with-ai-agents https://armanghev.com/blog/how-i-build-with-ai-agents Plans before prompts, a worktree for every piece of work, Codex and Claude Code running side by side, and a list of everything that hasn't been tested yet. Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT agents workflow process https://armanghev.com/blog/deleting-my-env-files https://armanghev.com/blog/deleting-my-env-files Why I built Envy, a macOS app and CLI that keeps secrets in the Keychain and hands them to your commands based on the folder you're in. Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT envy security developer-tools https://armanghev.com/blog/two-agents-one-task https://armanghev.com/blog/two-agents-one-task Why I built orchestrat, a shared workspace where coding agents claim work, talk to each other and hand off tasks, and the problem it still can't fully solve. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT orchestrat agents mcp https://armanghev.com/blog/testing-ai-failure-paths https://armanghev.com/blog/testing-ai-failure-paths Real AI providers make it hard to test rate limits, malformed tool calls, and broken streams. So I built Mock AI API, a local stand-in that fails on purpose. Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT mock-ai-api testing ai https://armanghev.com/blog/one-port-for-every-model https://armanghev.com/blog/one-port-for-every-model Why I put a local control plane between my AI tools and their providers, and what it takes to translate between OpenAI and Anthropic request formats in both directions. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT modelport ai infrastructure https://armanghev.com/blog/hello-im-arman https://armanghev.com/blog/hello-im-arman An accidental HTML file, years of tkinter games and a couple of tries at C# and C++, and then October 2023, when I stopped messing around and started learning properly. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT about personal