https://jasmantan.com/blog/ Build notes by Jasman Tan: engineering stories from jhub, a self-hosted family media hub built with AI coding agents. Debugging, testing, operations and working with agents. en Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://jasmantan.com/blog/ai-agents-without-losing-control/ https://jasmantan.com/blog/ai-agents-without-losing-control/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT The rules I use so AI coding agents can move fast on a family app without me trusting their reports: branch-only agents, owner-run merges, a separate test instance, and verifying claims instead of believing them. https://jasmantan.com/blog/speaker-played-nothing/ https://jasmantan.com/blog/speaker-played-nothing/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT Casting a video's sound to a smart speaker showed "playing" and made no noise. Reproducing it in real Chrome, a range request answered wrongly, a flaky test that was a real race, and a sandbox bug the tests could not see. https://jasmantan.com/blog/playlist-sync-six-days/ https://jasmantan.com/blog/playlist-sync-six-days/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT A media server API quirk made my sync delete and recreate playlists on every pass. Nothing alerted me for six days. How I found it, fixed it in two passes, and added a 03:00 health check.