$ join
Community
A workbench pinboard for builders who automate the boring and tinker with the weird. Pull up a stool, pin your project, and trade runbooks with people mid-solder.
the guild lives on discord
Join the Discord
Async help, live office hours, and a showcase wall for the things you ship. Free, low-noise, and pro-safety. New builders and old hands both welcome.
# starter channels
wave hello, drop your stack
work-in-progress, no polish required
scripts, pipelines, cron gone sideways
racks, NAS, networking, self-hosting
LLMs, agents, prompts, evals
solder, sensors, microcontrollers
ship it — post the receipts
links, recipes, templates worth stealing
$ crontab -l
Weekly rituals
Two standing entries in the bench crontab. Show up for either — or lurk until you are ready.
Office hours
$ 0 18 * * FRI # office hours, voice, 45–60mOpen voice channel. Bring a stuck automation, a homelab mystery, or a half-built agent. We triage live, screen-share the fix, and write down the runbook.
Build Log Friday
$ 0 9 * * FRI # build-log, one message, one weekOne post: what you shipped, what broke, what you learned. A benchmark or a postmortem beats a screenshot. Small progress counts — that is the whole point.
$ cat CONDUCT.md
How it works
Four guardrails keep the bench welcoming. Read them once; they are short on purpose.
Be kind, be specific
Assume good faith. Answer the question that was asked, then the one they meant.
Show your work
Paste the error, the command, the config. Receipts get better answers than vibes.
No secrets in chat
Never paste API keys, tokens, .env files, or client data. Redact first — always.
Search before you shout
The channel history and the Lab Notes are a decent first responder. Skim, then ask.