thinktanktom

Hi, I'm Thomas Cyriac.

A modern day engineer with a penchant for dry humour.

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·12 min read

Connected, but Not Authenticated

Claude Code reported my MCP server 'connected but not authenticated' — TLS fine, token valid, zero tools. The culprit wasn't the token. It was a 401 from a route that never wanted a Bearer in the first place, and what that 401 set in motion.

mcpdebuggingdevopsai-toolingself-hosted
·11 min read

Self-Hosted AI Orchestration: How I Set Up Ruflo on a DigitalOcean VM for a Client

A complete record of getting Ruflo running on a DigitalOcean VM — from the npm path that didn't work, through five separate issues that each needed diagnosing, to a live chat UI and remote MCP connection the client can use from their own machine.

aidevopsself-hostedclaudedocker
·3 min read

Hello, World.

Every site needs a first post. This is mine — a quick note on why I built this and what I plan to write about.

metawriting
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