Stop automating your smart home, it's making things worse
…A straightforward home, away, and sleep approach is usually enough. Leak, smoke, and safety alerts : If water shows up where it shouldn’t, or a sensor catches something urgent, you want to…
Search
Tailscale is the only home lab change I made this year that I actually noticed
…With a few ACL patterns to restrict inter-device communication in some cases and SSH only working while on the tailnet, my home lab's trust model is identity-based rather than…
I stopped asking Claude to plan get-togethers after Google added Gemini to Maps
…That was when it mentioned the Hollywood Boulevard Safety and Mobility Project and told me it was right between the two destinations. It also gave me useful info, such as parking restrictions…
Running OpenClaw in Proxmox taught me that elegance doesn't always beat reliability
…My 4-core, 8GB Linux Mint VM was probably more generous than OpenClaw strictly needed, but that extra breathing room made the whole experience smoother and easier to trust. That made the…
I upgraded to a fast SSD and my system was still slow — here's what I missed
…And when they do, many of them throttle performance to prevent overheating as a safety feature. I didn’t realize this was happening during the short benchmarks. During small tasks, everything felt…
I paid for Gemini, Claude, and Copilot for a month, but only one of them is worth the subscription
…Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI researchers and has positioned Claude as a safety-focused AI assistant. Not quite. Claude Code is made by Anthropic, not to be confused with OpenAI's…
I tried Cursor, Claude Code, and Google Antigravity for a month and I have a clear winner for you
…Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI researchers and has positioned Claude as a safety-focused AI assistant. Not quite. Claude Code is made by Anthropic, not to be confused with OpenAI's…
I built a backend-heavy SaaS app in Lovable and Claude Code, and the difference was obvious
…app fast” and more like “build software properly.” It definitely took more time, but the final codebase felt cleaner, easier to maintain, and far closer to something I’d trust in production…
Some of the best-selling Cat6 Ethernet cables are fake, and you can't legally run them in your walls
…Cat6", and while they're fine for the odd patch cable, trusting these cables to carry a 5+ GbE connection or PoE can carry not just performance consequences, but potential safety ones…
Chasing the perfect home lab is why yours never works
…Related How I used NixOS to make my home lab truly immutable Safety and security are NixOS's calling cards Chasing perfection turned routine maintenance into constant disruption Every improvement created one…