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Claude Code Routines: Scheduled Cloud Agents, Sub-Routines and Co-Routines
Claude Code Routines run saved agent tasks on Anthropic's cloud on a schedule, via API or on GitHub events. How they work, how to set one up, and how to chain them.
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Ring Promoter v1.0.2 — Rings, Orbit and Lanes Side by Side
Ring Promoter v1.0.2 ships Orbit and Lanes side by side — pause on Orbit for the fleet, flip to Lanes when you need the matrix.
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Faster WSLProxy Deploys: Prebuilt Images, Build Cache — and Using AI So the Pipeline Work Actually Ships
Workstation WSL Proxy: compile OpenResty once into bwalia/wslproxy-openresty, warm Buildx/GHA layers, extract on bare metal, prefer DEPLOY_MODE=code — and why AI-assisted delivery made this cross-cutting work finishable.
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WSLProxy WAF Engine v2: Enterprise Enforcement You Can Explain
Workstation WSL Proxy WAF Engine v2: governed stages and signatures on the OpenResty hot path — explainable enforcement with support IDs.
Balinder WaliaRead WSL Proxy WAF: Explainable Web Application Firewall at the Edge
Workstation WSL Proxy WAF: governed stages and signatures on a live-config OpenResty edge — monitor or block, with explainable support IDs.
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Every Release Earns Production: Making Promotions Boring and Safe
Ring Promoter makes promotion a protocol: health-gated hops through int → test → acc → prod, auto-rollback, and full history — every release earns production.
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Ring Promoter — QA Gates Before Production
Ring Promoter QA gates: auto-promote early rings, keep a human gate before prod, and treat health plus version checks as first-class quality gates.
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Rust Async Blocking, Rayon & Modern Applications
Workstation on async Rust blocking, Rayon for CPU-bound work, and why Rust fits modern APIs, edge, agents, and CI/CD — inspired by Alice Ryhl’s Rayon guidance.
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Ring Promoter: Modern CI/CD You Cannot Miss for AI-Powered Deployments
Ring Promoter is the modern CI/CD control plane for AI-powered deployments: shared rings, health gates, version verification, auto-rollback, and multi-app promote.
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Workstation WSL Proxy: API Gateway, CDN & Agent Edge
Workstation WSL Proxy (WSLProxy) is a complete API gateway and CDN edge: live routing, WAF, cache, multi-POP DNS, MCP — with Agents Gateway and MCP Gateway in progress.
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Can an AI System Process and File a Self Assessment Tax Return to HMRC Automatically?
Can AI file UK Self Assessment to HMRC? FileMyTax shows bank PDF → extract → classify → calculate → MTD with a human gate. Built by Workstation for CognoAI. Not tax advice.
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Building a VAT Return System with Claude Code from Your Invoices and Expenses Database
I rebuilt my quarterly UK VAT return as a Claude Code project: read invoices + expenses from Postgres, classify each line by VAT treatment, compute HMRC Box 1 to 9 with a deterministic Python engine, dry-run, then submit to MTD with a human approval gate.
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