Projects
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U05 active ai-running-coach AI agents that plan and review my trail-running training from Garmin data. ai-running-coach, Nine Days Later: a Dashboard, 20+ Metrics and a Coach in My Pocket 2 postsai-coding-agents
U06 active Jev & System One Decision models that judge my Home Assistant automations and route each prompt to the right LLM. Jev in Home Assistant, Take Two: History, Feedback, and Why I Didn't Go Local 3 postssmart-home
U07 active gphoto2proton & proton-faces Moving 354 GB of Google Photos to Proton, then searching them by face locally. Searching Proton Photos like it's Google Photos: how I built proton-faces 2 postsprogramming
U08 active Solar & home energy Measured solar production, the water heater that follows it, and whether any of it pays off. The Smart Water Heater, 4 Years Later: Solar + Off-Peak Orchestration (v2) 3 postssolar-energy
U09 active leanproxy-mcp A token firewall for MCP that keeps the input context flat and secrets out of prompts. Your MCP Input Context: Which IDEs Lazy-Load and How LeanProxy Keeps It Flat 2 postsai-coding-agents
U10 active Self-hosted Arlo Arlo cameras running without Arlo's cloud, on my own base station and Home Assistant. Arlo Base Station Deep Dive: Battery Drain, Sniffed Data, and Router Config 5 postssmart-home
- Arlo Base Station Deep Dive: Battery Drain, Sniffed Data, and Router Config17′
- Fixing Arlo Camera Battery Life at the WiFi Layer13′
- Integrating Your Self-Hosted Arlo Stack with Home Assistant: Sensors, Automations and the Lovelace Dashboard33′
- Self-Hosting Arlo on Your Own Server: Stack, Patches and Lessons Learned24′
- Replacing the Arlo Base Station with a Netgear Orbi Router34′
U11 quiet nexus-dev A local RAG and MCP gateway that gives coding agents memory without the token bill. The Future of Agentic Tooling: MCP Servers vs. CLI A Data-Driven Comparison 5 postsai-coding-agents
- The Future of Agentic Tooling: MCP Servers vs. CLI A Data-Driven Comparison19′
- How RAG Can Cut Your AI Coding Costs by 80%7′
- From Tools to Agents: The Evolution of Nexus-Dev6′
- Solving the MCP Tool Explosion: A Gateway Approach for AI Coding Agents5′
- Stop Repeating Yourself to AI: How I Built a Local RAG System for Coding Assistants5′
U12 quiet Hitachi CSNet for Home Assistant A Home Assistant integration for Hitachi heat pumps, reverse-engineered from the cloud API. Reverse-Engineering Hitachi's Cloud API with AI: From Browser DevTools to categories: - smart-home - ai-coding-agents a Full Home Assistant Integration 3 postssmart-home
- Reverse-Engineering Hitachi's Cloud API with AI: From Browser DevTools to categories: - smart-home - ai-coding-agents a Full Home Assistant Integration11′
- Reverse-Engineering Hitachi's Cloud API with AI: From Browser DevTools to categories: - smart-home - ai-coding-agents a Full Home Assistant Integration12′
- Seamlessly Automate Your Home with Hitachi Devices: A Custom Home Assistant categories: - smart-home Integration3′
U13 quiet Cyber Code Academy A learning platform built by vibe coding, then deployed, hardened and pen-tested. Vibe Coding Custom Penetration Tests: When AI Becomes Your Security Partner 5 postsai-coding-agents
- Vibe Coding Custom Penetration Tests: When AI Becomes Your Security Partner8′
- Securing Python Code Execution: How We Protected Our Server from Untrusted categories: - programming - devops Code11′
- Behind the Scenes: The Admin Section of Cyber Code Academy11′
- Achieving Zero-Downtime Deployments on Coolify: A Journey from Monolith to Decoupled Architecture28′
- Building Cyber Code Academy: A "Pure Vibe Coding" Experiment4′