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Automating My Home: Integrations, Devices, and the Automations That Tie Them Together
A tour of a 3,281-entity smart home — the protocol integrations that speak to the hardware, the device fleet across every room, and the automations that make it all useful. The what, why, and how of Home Assistant.
My Homelab, Mapped: The Infrastructure, the Network, and the Applications
A tour of my home data center — a 4-node Proxmox cluster, OPNsense routing five VLANs, UniFi-managed Wi-Fi and switching, and the eleven workloads that run the house. The what, why, and how behind every layer.
Meet Blogy: The 4th Agent
The blog got its own dedicated agent. Here's why content outgrew a coding agent's side job, and what changes now that there's someone whose only job is writing, editing, and designing this site.
I Saw a Video About Hermes. Here's What Happened.
Four days ago I watched 11 minutes of a YouTube video about an AI agent runtime, then went and built it myself. This is what changed in my homelab, on this blog, and in a year-stale open-source tool — and an honest accounting of what it actually cost.
Rebuilding this blog as a static site
Moving off WordPress.com to Astro, git, and Cloudflare.