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Automating My Home: Integrations, Devices, and the Automations That Tie Them Together
A ~320-device smart home, from the protocol integrations that talk to the hardware to the automations that run the house. How Home Assistant ties it together.
Directly controlling WiZ bulbs from ESPHome
How to drive a set of Wi-Fi bulbs straight from an ESPHome device over the local UDP API, so a plain wall switch controls them and Home Assistant sees one dimmable light instead of nine.
My Homelab, Mapped: The Infrastructure, the Network, and the Applications
A tour of my home data center, covering 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.