How My AI Agents Talk to My Thermal Printer (Using an MCP Server)
Connecting thermal printers to an MCP server so AI-agents can print labels for my home inventory system.
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POS Printers: The Cheapest & Most Flexible Labeling Solution You're Not Using
Using a thermal printer and label paper, printing labels is surprisingly easy and cost effective. All you need is a little vibe-coded http server, and you're one click away from printing labels.
Household Task Management That Actually Gets Used
Most task management systems fail at home because they're designed for work. I built one around how families actually assign, track, and complete household tasks.
Why I Built a Home Inventory System (And Why Notion Is the Database)
Every household has a knowledge problem. You own hundreds of things, stored in dozens of places, and the only index is your memory. I built a system to fix that.
Homeschool Lesson Planner: AI-Powered Multi-Framework Curriculum Planning
A Claude Code skill that drafts weekly lesson plans across three simultaneous curriculum frameworks, wired directly into Notion databases.
Daily Lesson Plans: Turning Notion Schedules into Print-Ready Teacher Briefings
A Claude Code skill that queries Notion for today's teaching schedule and produces a clean, printable Markdown table for each teacher.
Print Lesson Plans: One Command to Print the Whole Teaching Day
A Claude Code skill that orchestrates multiple sub-skills to fetch, format, and print a complete day's teaching materials from Notion to paper.
Inventory: Natural Language Access to Household Items via AI
A Claude Code skill that lets you ask “where is the soldering iron?” and get an answer from your household inventory database.
Markdown Print: One-Command PDF Rendering and Printing from the Terminal
Two Claude Code skills that convert local Markdown files to A4 PDFs and send them to a Brother laser printer, all from a single voice command.
Notion Print: From Notion Page to Paper in One Step
Two Claude Code skills that fetch Notion pages, convert them to print-ready Markdown, and optionally send them straight to the printer.
Watch Action: GitHub Actions Monitoring with Audio Alerts
A Claude Code skill that polls GitHub Actions runs and fires macOS audio alerts when they complete, so you never miss a build result.
The Pattern, Not the Platform: How the Attention Economy Hollows Out the Real One
An Indonesian city is a tale of two malls: one fancy, one in decay. Ironically, nothing is worth buying at the former. Why the Doctorowian cycle ruined clothing too, how the attention economy has blinded consumers, and what Indonesia uniquely still has the chance to defend rather than rebuild.
Inequality as a System Feature, Not a Bug
Capitalism reads inequality as an incentive structure, classifying redistribution as charitable and discretionary. Zakat treats it as a bug, and the automatic redistribution as a feature – not as discretionary charity from the rich, but an inherent property right of the poor.
Waqf, Workshops, and Women's Labor in Batik Communities
Exploring the central role of waqf (Islamic charitable foundation endowments) founded by female batik artisans from Indonesia's northern coastal cities as Islamic legal-economic institutions – not merely proto-capitalist nor village folk craft.