Blog

Tutorials, experiments, and ideas for getting the most out of HLE.

Tutorial

AI Game Night Part 2: Competitive Pac-Man in One Prompt

Build a competitive 2-player Pac-Man game with one AI prompt. Ghosts, power-ups, dot racing — all running on your laptop, shared with a PIN-locked link.

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Tutorial

AI Game Night: Build a Multiplayer Game in One Prompt

Ask your AI agent to build a multiplayer drawing game, expose it with HLE, and play with friends in under 10 minutes. Works with Claude Code, Copilot, and more.

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Guide

Expose Proxmox Services to the Internet in 5 Minutes

Step-by-step guide to exposing Proxmox VE, Jellyfin, and Home Assistant to the internet with HLE — no port forwarding, no VPN, no dynamic DNS.

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Guide

Show, Don't Tell: How to Demo Your AI Agent Without Deploying Anywhere

Stop spinning up cloud servers for a 15-minute client demo. Share a secure, time-limited link to your locally running AI agent and let the client interact with it live.

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Build in Public

The Frustration That Became HLE

After a decade of port forwarding, proxy configs, and basic auth passwords I couldn't type on my phone, I built the remote access tool I always wanted.

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Release

Firepuncher: reach any TCP port through an agent

Firepuncher forwards a TCP port from a remote agent to a local port on your machine — SSH, Postgres, Redis — with no public port on either side. Shipped in hle-client 2607.5.

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Guide

Run HLE on pfSense Without Opening a Port

Two commands to reach your pfSense web UI over HTTPS with SSO in front — no port forward, no VPN, no dynamic DNS. Plus why it needed a dependency removed first.

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Guide

SSH into your home lab from anywhere

Reach SSH on your Raspberry Pi or home server from any laptop, without opening port 22 to the internet. Then make it a one-word ssh command with ~/.ssh/config.

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Opinion

Why I stopped forwarding port 22

Port forwarding, VPN, mesh, bastion, reverse tunnel, private bridge — five reasonable ways to reach your home lab remotely, and how to pick the right one.

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