I write polished posts when an idea is ready, lab notes when an experiment is useful before it is perfect, and thoughts when an idea is worth sharing on its own.
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I moved my voice agent off ElevenLabs' servers and into my own house: a speech-to-speech loop on a mini PC with no GPU. Deleting speech-to-text simplified it, and 25 versions of fixes taught me the client was never the problem.
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A read-only operations dashboard for my mini PC, built with OpenCode and GLM-5.3-Flash for under $0.70 of model cost. Python stdlib only, one page to see what needs attention.
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A practical build note on giving an ElevenLabs voice agent useful memory and tools through a guarded MCP server.
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A small Home Assistant lab note on comparing three Zigbee leak sensors from Sonoff, Moes, and Meian, then placing them under the sink and bath pump where I actually care about leaks.
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A practical build note on making private, age-appropriate Spider-Man stories for a Yoto card, with JSON scripts, ElevenLabs voices, renderer boundaries, and a lot of small judgement calls.
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I started building a parent activity-planning app, decided the product shape probably did not make sense, and salvaged the useful bit: 200 free at-home activities.