Notes archive

Field notes for repeatable learning.

Short posts and technical notes that capture the thinking behind systems, tradeoffs, and practical experiments.

Field-journal style smart home automation sketch with abstract camera detection and media playback blocks.

A Small Object Detection Automation That Made The Lab Feel Real

A story about using camera object detection and smart home automation for a funny household problem.

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Field-journal style homelab topology with abstract network, compute, storage, and backup blocks.

Building My Personal Homelab: Goals and Architecture

A field note on building a useful lab with a stable core, experimental edge, remote access, and clear documentation.

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Field-journal style private access map with abstract identity gate, tunnel path, and lab service boundary.

Secure Remote Access Without Traditional VPN Pain

Notes on combining private overlay access and identity-protected browser access without turning the lab into a public target map.

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Field-journal style reliability ledger with abstract uptime trace, backup blocks, and status marks.

What My Homelab Taught Me About Reliability

A short reflection on DNS, backups, snapshots, sync, updates, and knowing which services actually matter.

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Field-journal style AI agent workbench with abstract task cards, tool boundaries, and terminal shapes.

Practical AI Agent Workflows for Personal Automation

A field note on using AI helpers for planning, documentation, release review, and project work.

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