With 15+ years of experience, I specialize in self-hosting, AI automation, and Vibe Coding – building applications using AI-powered tools like Google Antigravity, Dyad, and Cline. From homelabs to enterprise solutions.
Technical notes, walkthroughs, and troubleshooting write-ups focused on self-hosting, automation, networking, and developer tooling.
Why I Built This Integration I've been running Home Assistant on my network for years, controlling everything from lights to climate systems through MQTT. The...
Why I Decided to Run a Local AI Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5 I've been running n8n workflows on my Raspberry Pi 5 for months now, mostly for task automation...
Why I Built This Workflow I run n8n in a Docker container on my Proxmox setup, and like most self-hosted services, it needs regular updates. The problem is...
Why I Built Rate Limiting for Home Assistant Webhooks I run Home Assistant on my home network with several automations triggered by webhooks. One day, I...
Why I Built Circuit Breakers for Home Automation APIs My home automation setup talks to a bunch of different APIs—some running on local containers, others...
Why I Started Tracking n8n Costs I run n8n self-hosted on Proxmox. Most of my workflows call external APIs—OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, sometimes Google's...
Why I Built This I run automated backups for everything in my homelab—VMs on Proxmox, Docker volumes, configuration files, databases. But backups are...
Why I Worked on This I run multiple n8n workflows that call Ollama for various tasks — summarizing documents, extracting structured data, and generating...
Why I Built My Own Local AI Readiness Test I've been self-hosting AI models on Proxmox for about two years now. Not as an experiment, but as actual...
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