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Barely a week into March and I’m already doing a total re-factor. The motivation behind this one is clear. OpenClaw. This thing is huge. It might just be the one framework to encompass. All others going forward. At the very least, it plays a big part in how I’m setting up my home lab. Spent a long late-night session with Kiro mapping out the future state of the whole setup. The big realization was that the control plane — Synapse, OpenClaw, Traefik, Cloudflare tunnel — can’t live on the same machines it manages, because if one goes down I lose the ability to fix it. So the future direction looks like I’ll be moving all of that to a cheap VPS, and the homelab machines become pure workload that receive instructions from the outside. Figured out the AI orchestration model: OpenClaw is the brain that I talk to, Kiro CLI lives on each machine as the local executor, and Matrix is the communication layer between them. The other big thing was state management — defining exactly where every type of state lives, from infrastructure configs in git to the AI’s memory and knowledge base in OpenClaw’s workspace as markdown files and SQLite databases. Drew a hard line between what should be a Docker container (anything with its own UI that runs 24/7) and what should just live inside OpenClaw’s workspace (automations, personal tools, databases the AI builds and queries). Wrote it all up in a future state architecture doc. No re-architecture happening tonight (3:30am), but the target is clear now. Email has been the priority right now. It keeps coming and coming and I’ve long since abandoned my inbox-zero habits. The migration is to Stalwart, a high performance opensource Rust application supporting the latest protocols. Future state will have n8n integration for AI email workflows like automatic unsubscribing from email lists and prioritization. Ran into several issues on this though. My backups were restic cross machine and to B2 Backblaze, but that doesn’t scale, so I’ve switched only AWS (hit the max 10GB on B2 pretty quick). Now I’m setting up email forwarding for Gmail. Ideally, I can have one of my N8N workflows help with the account changes that will be needed to get myself off Gmail.