Things I've built, broken and fixed — from a PhD simulator to a homelab in a cupboard.
2026
- Mealie, a local LLM, and a meal plan that writes the shopping list
- Replacing my endless news feed with a twice-daily LLM digest
- Designing a parcel box in Blender, one Python script at a time
- Branch Line: designing a railway puzzle game before writing it
- Making a local Home Assistant voice assistant answer in under three seconds interactive
- with-env: keeping .env files encrypted
- metermon goes Zigbee: an electricity meter on a nice!nano interactive
- Getting Thames Water's smart meter into Home Assistant properly