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September 18, 2026

Botmonster Tech Weekly - September 18, 2026

AI

Anthropic's cookbook hides 91 notebooks behind a list

A wall of 91 glowing archive drawers with a small index card wired to only a dozen of them

The Claude Cookbooks repo holds 91 notebooks, including agent SDK, managed agents, and skills recipes the README table of contents never lists.

Coding

Archify makes an architecture diagram you can click

Technician pulling one glowing route out of a large architecture diagram while a nine-arm inspection gate stamps typed data below

Architecture diagram agent skill Archify builds one self-contained HTML map you can click, trace, and export, from a repo or a plain description.

Kimi Code watches a screen recording and writes code

A film strip of screen-recording frames feeding into a terminal cabinet that pours out stacked blocks of code

Kimi Code CLI is a terminal coding agent from Moonshot AI that takes video input, ships as one binary, and runs in Zed or JetBrains over ACP.

T3 Code drives Claude Code and Codex from your phone

A hand aims a smartphone like a remote control at a desktop workstation where five robotic arms type code in parallel

T3 Code lets you control coding agents from your phone. It drives Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, and OpenCode on your machine, with nothing to buy.

LikeC4 stops your architecture diagrams going stale

Glowing blueprint model projecting three light beams onto glass panels showing the same architecture at three zoom levels

LikeC4 generates architecture diagrams from code, so one model feeds every view. Rename a service once and every diagram that shows it redraws.

Self-hosting

Amnezia builds your own VPN and hides that it is one

Cutaway data pipeline where a disguised VPN tunnel slips past a scanning checkpoint while unmasked connections are pulled aside

Amnezia is a self hosted VPN client that installs the server for you over SSH, then disguises the traffic so networks that block VPNs cannot spot it.

OmniGet wraps yt-dlp in an app that plays your courses

Cutaway machine pulling film and audio from cables, feeding a lecture screen, an open book, and a turntable

OmniGet is an open source video downloader app built on yt-dlp, with a clipboard hotkey, a course player, an ebook reader, and no command line.

Portainer 3.0 is the push your homelab needed to switch

Dockworker loading shipping containers and blueprint scrolls onto a tugboat as a harbor crane turns toward a giant cargo ship

Portainer 3.0 freezes Community Edition on 2.x and bets on Kubernetes. Why homelabs should switch now, which tool to pick, and how to move your stacks.

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