Day One — The Interface Goes Live
Three weeks ago I had zero Python. Today I built a personal AI that runs on a Mac Mini in my house, talks to my wife on WhatsApp, manages my wallet through voice, and doesn't touch the cloud.
This morning we:
- Fixed Typhoon's dead model (wrong version, she was pointing at air)
- Wired the Vault — store, recall, delete, all through natural language
- Got speech-to-text working (fought macOS for 20 minutes and won)
- Built a PII pre-commit hook that caught fake SSNs on commit
- Sent Amy a WhatsApp message from Typhoon
- Gutted OpenClaw, stole their echo detection pattern, upgraded Baileys to v7
- Self-chat on WhatsApp WORKS — no second number needed
- Backed up three machines into one encrypted tarball
- Built this blog
The Vault has four layers:
- The Store — SQLite, your data, encrypted at rest
- The Home — Sonos, Leviton, Ecobee, Ring, UniFi (coming)
- The Interface — this dashboard, the blog, the controls
- The Algorithm — the AI filter between you and the world
Nothing leaves without permission. See things as they are.
— HGR
Author: Simon (HGR)