Blog
Thoughts, experiments, and field notes.
whoami
Just a guy with insatiable curiosity about the world and the way things work.
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Make it A.I.
Without the vast knowledge and capability of Commander Data, Captain Jean-Luke Picard would not have been nearly as effective or successful in battle.
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The Little Library Project
Modernize and expand on data collection of a front-lawn Library Exchange with ESPHOME and Home Assistant
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Monitoring My Home Lab with Grafana and Prometheus
Setting up a proper metrics stack to finally understand what my home server is actually doing at any given moment.
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Automating My Balcony Garden with ESP8266 and MQTT
Building a soil moisture monitoring system with a $3 microcontroller, a handful of sensors, and way too much time reading datasheets.
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Getting into Videography: My First Six Months
What I learned after picking up a Sony ZV-E10, shooting a lot of bad footage, and slowly figuring out what I was doing wrong.
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Building a Home Server from Spare Parts
I had an old gaming PC collecting dust, a free weekend, and a copy of Proxmox. Here is what happened.
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Getting Started with Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi
How I set up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 to start automating my home — and why I wish I had done it sooner.