Lee Hayward

./about Who's behind the builds

I'm a UK based vibe coder. AI drafts, I proof, I ship, and I hold code and copy to the same standard. I riff on domain ideas and build side projects like DomainRiff and LookMa from my own homelab.

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./stack How it gets built

./hardware The rigs behind the site

./homelab The machines that never sleep

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Lee Hayward@vibedcoder · 28 Sep 2026, 19:08Being the one who always copes is not a contract you signed. If you are the person everybody brings their problems to, you are also the person nobody thinks to check on. Say it out loud to one of them anyway, today, while it is still a small thing.00001Lee Hayward@vibedcoder · 28 Sep 2026, 17:10Thirty odd years of support taught me one question that solves more incidents than any tool, and it is not a clever one. What changed?

It is almost never a mystery. Somebody moved a cable, a certificate came up for renewal and nobody noticed, a package got upgraded on Tuesday and the symptom turned up on Thursday. Find the last thing that changed and you are usually standing in front of the cause.

An agent makes that question harder in a specific way. When I typed the code myself, the answer was the four lines I had written since lunch. Now a single afternoon can hold forty files, a dependency bump and a config value nobody asked for. The question is still the right one. The answer has just stopped fitting in my head.

So when an agent's output comes back worse than it was last week, I treat that as the same kind of problem. Something changed. A longer context, a different model, a prompt I edited, a file that grew. I change one of those at a time and look again, because guessing at the whole thing is how an afternoon disappears.

What is your first move when a system that worked yesterday does not work today?00006Lee Hayward@vibedcoder · 28 Sep 2026, 15:10Asked my agent for a one line fix this morning. Got the fix, plus 340 files of quote style normalised to match, plus a short note explaining why consistency matters. The change I asked for is on line 12. 😂002020Lee Hayward@vibedcoder · 28 Sep 2026, 12:24Most of what I build runs on a small box in my house with nobody watching it. So every project gets one thing before I call it finished: a check that loads a real page every few minutes and sends a message to my phone when the answer stops being right.

Not a dashboard. I have built those before and I know what happens to a graph nobody is looking at. The alert goes to the phone in my pocket, at the hour it happens, not the next time I open a laptop.

The question I use to decide whether it is worth building: would I find out before the person using it had to tell me? If the honest answer is no, the project has no monitoring, it just has my confidence.

The part I get wrong is the tuning. An alert that fires over nothing gets muted inside a week, and a muted alert is worse than none, because now I believe I am covered.

What tells you one of your projects has fallen over?000015Lee Hayward@vibedcoder · 28 Sep 2026, 11:50THEY'RE NOT QUIET - THEY'RE BUILDING THE CAGE.

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