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A stone castle gatehouse at sunrise, the artwork from the Keys to Your Private Kingdom slide in the Night Two presentation

AI Secret Sauce Night Two: Build Your AI Team

Night Two at Cowork Chilliwack: Claude Code, voice typing, a password safe and a team of AI helpers set up live on a business owner's Mac. Slides included.

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Hands wearing Loop and Links permanent gold bracelets resting on a sunlit table in Chilliwack, BC

Supercharging Local Entrepreneurs: What We Set Up for Loop and Links

Denise runs a permanent jewellery business in Chilliwack. Her Mac now listens to her, talks back, keeps her passwords in a safe, and drafts her Instagram and Facebook posts for her to approve. Here is everything we set up, in plain words, and how the same setup works from anywhere.

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Paul Preibisch opening Night One of AI Secret Sauce at Cowork Chilliwack, with the TOP SECRET title slide on the big screen

AI Secret Sauce: Foundations Class

Night One of AI Secret Sauce at Cowork Chilliwack covered the five unlocks and the plumbing under them: secrets management, setting up AI bots, and API keys. Here's what I showed. Night Two followed on October 5, and more nights are on the calendar.

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Rakazo: AI teammates you actually own, the self-hosted platform running our bot roster

An Easier Way to Manage an Agentic Team

OpenClaw and Hermes showed what personal AI agents could do, but they've been hard for most people to set up. Here's how I ended up running a team of 19 specialized bots on Rakazo, an open-source platform, after burning through Grok Bot's credits in a day.

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Marguerite dabbing shimmer through fishnet on her cheek in a thrift store aisle, a frame from the fifth take of clip two

Five Takes for Eight Seconds: What Directing an AI Actor Actually Costs

A follow-up on the Marguerite experiment. Getting one background actor's reactions right in an eight-second shot took far more attempts than planned, part of 37 Higgsfield generation jobs that cost real money. Here is what went wrong and the storyboard-first process we switched to.

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AI Secret Sauce: four Monday evenings at Cowork Chilliwack from September 28, 2026, with the course bottle artwork and a QR code to the event page

Nobody Ever Shows You AI. They Just Talk About It.

Every business owner in Chilliwack has been told AI will change everything. Almost none of them have been sat down and shown it. I'm running four Monday evenings at Cowork Chilliwack starting September 28: here's exactly what happens in the room, and why twenty years of teaching beginners to dance is the reason I know it works.

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Five adversarial AI code reviewers around a holographic terminal with neon lighting

Why Your Code Reviews Are Too Nice (And How to Fix That)

A single AI reviewing your code plays every role at once and negotiates them before it speaks. The result is balanced, reasonable, and slightly soft. BMAD's Code Review Crew puts five genuinely different minds on your PR — blind to each other — and lets them disagree.

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Holographic AI characters materializing in a dynamic casting room

The AI Room That Casts Itself

Describe a room — a startup war room, a panel of real advisors, a crew of people who've been where you are — and the right voices show up based on what you're actually talking about. No config. No fixed roster. The room casts itself.

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AI agent characters Vex, Grumbal, Boundary, Yui, and Dana queuing for a bouncer outside a neon nightclub party

BMAD 6.9.0: Five Tools That Break You Out of Single-AI Thinking

BMAD 6.9.0 ships five tools for multi-agent work: an adversarial code review crew, a brainstorming facilitator with 108 techniques, an idea pressure-tester, a forensic debugger, and open-cast party rooms. Each one gets its own deep-dive below.

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AI avatar panel at a podium in Virtlantis Second Life — Winston, Sally, Mary, and Angie controlled by one teacher from a dashboard

Notes from Virtlantis: AI Bots, Voice, and the Teacher as Puppet Master

I stood in front of four AI avatars at a podium in Second Life and drove every one of them from a single dashboard. One teacher, four voices, zero curtain — this is what immersive AI language teaching looks like in 2026.

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A glowing storybook kiosk in a Second Life rainforest with an AI avatar narrating beside it

Revisiting Language Teaching Tools in Second Life 2026

How a new natural-language scripting workflow unlocked a Spanish story reader in Second Life — narrated by AI avatar Sofia, with beautiful AI-generated illustrations and live in-world vocabulary panels.

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Glowing neural network with audio waveforms on a dark violet background

Agent Vibes: Finally, Your AI Agents Can Talk Back

Agent Vibes gives your AI coding agents a voice. Free TTS providers, audio effects, background music, 914 voices, BMAD party mode where every agent speaks differently, and a remote receiver so you hear it all through your laptop speakers.

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Glowing 5x5 bingo grid with luminous gemstone cells and Latin dance light trails on a dark background

How We Built Salsa Bingo for Tuesday Night Latin Dance with Claude Code

We run Tuesday night salsa at La Tuna in La Ventana, BCS. We wanted something that made the night more interactive. So we sat down with Claude Code and built a full game in a weekend — bilingual bingo cards, gem animations, Firebase backend, admin dashboard, and printable card sheets.

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Dark terminal split into illuminated panes with cascading code in phosphor-green and violet

The Genius Behind TMUX

TMUX keeps your terminal sessions alive when SSH drops, splits your screen without a mouse, and turns a remote server into a real workstation. Here's how it works and the handful of commands you'll actually use.

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