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The Home Server Dashboard That Cost 70 Cents
A read-only operations dashboard for my mini PC, built with OpenCode and GLM-5.3-Flash for under $0.70 of model cost. Python stdlib only, one page to see what needs attention.
Practical notes from building with software, agents, and smart home systems.
I write polished posts when an idea is ready, lab notes when an experiment is useful before it is perfect, and thoughts when an idea is worth sharing on its own.
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Voice Agents Need Memory And Tools
A practical build note on giving an ElevenLabs voice agent useful memory and tools through a guarded MCP server.
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Trying Three Leak Sensors In Home Assistant
A small Home Assistant lab note on comparing three Zigbee leak sensors from Sonoff, Moes, and Meian, then placing them under the sink and bath pump where I actually care about leaks.
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Building a Tiny Spider-Man Story Generator
A practical build note on making private, age-appropriate Spider-Man stories for a Yoto card, with JSON scripts, ElevenLabs voices, renderer boundaries, and a lot of small judgement calls.
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I'm Not Building DayPlan, So Here Are the Activities
I started building a parent activity-planning app, decided the product shape probably did not make sense, and salvaged the useful bit: 200 free at-home activities.
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Copying Text Out Of Remote OpenCode In tmux
The small clipboard fix that made text copy from OpenCode on minibot, through tmux and SSH, back to my Mac.