Smart home  ·  Travel notes  ·  Built in NJ

Two obsessions,
one site.

A homelab and a travel journal. The first is a deeply over-engineered local-first smart home; the second is a growing archive of itineraries built the way I'd want one handed to me. Both treated as engineering problems.

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Smart home · Network · AI
The homelab.

Home Assistant on bare metal, Mac Mini Docker stack, Reolink PoE cameras, Ollama running local LLMs, Tailscale tying it all together. What I built and how.

250+devices
10+cameras
100%local-first
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Itineraries · Trip notes
Slow trips, deeply planned.

National parks, far-flung islands, long road trips. Detailed enough to actually use, opinionated enough to skip the bad calls. Take what's useful, ignore the rest.

40+trips logged
25+parks
4continents
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Europe, four countries, 19 days
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Maui to Big Island to Kauai to Oahu — the full plan.