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Smart home and IoT
Home Assistant at the centre of everything: lighting, sensors, relays, intercom, cameras. My own ESP32 and ESP8266 devices on ESPHome, and my own integrations wherever none exist.
Lab
The home lab is a proving ground. It is where I break the things I cannot break at work: networks, hypervisors, firmware, other people’s protocols. A good deal of what later proved useful in production first ran here.
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Networking
Routing and split traffic, VPNs and tunnels, OpenWrt and Keenetic, LTE as a fallback link.
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Infrastructure
Proxmox with VMs and containers, Docker Compose, reverse proxies, my own VPS with nginx and certificates. Backups, monitoring, and being my own on-call.
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LLM infrastructure
My own layer over the models: OpenAI-compatible endpoints, request routing through LiteLLM, agent tooling, and MCP servers of my own against live catalogues and APIs.
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Hardware and CAD
Electronics diagnostics and soldering, 3D printing on Bambu Lab, designing enclosures and parts in Autodesk Inventor. Usually for my own ESP devices, which nobody makes enclosures for.