An accidental Home Assistant deep diveWIP
What started as installing someone else's integration turned into a fork, an API reverse-engineering session, and a much longer Saturday night.
Writing · 05
Use it or lose it
Writing up projects I've done, in a haphazard low-tech way. Some to share what I've learnt. Mostly to stretch a writing skill that fades fast in a world being overtaken by AI talking. I've done alright with writing in the past, and I'd rather not let it slip.
2026-05-01
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2026-04-15
Why GitHub Pages was the low-cost answer for a friend of a friendWIP
A friend of a friend needed a real site without monthly bills. GitHub Pages was the low-cost answer, and the constraint that shaped everything else.
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2026-04-01
What I learned from someone else's marketingWIP
With ATD I had a flyer for design, names, and contact details. With Bare Larder I had to invent the perspective from nothing, and it was ten times harder.
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2024-01-15
How deploying a webserver got stuck at securing a PiWIP
Setting up a home webserver turned into a security deep dive. By the time the Pi was locked down, managed hosting looked much more sensible.
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2022-03-15
My capstone: a BERT Slack bot for design decisionsWIP
I fine-tuned BERT to classify architecture design decisions in developer chat, wrapped it in a Slack bot, and published it at IEEE ICSA-C 2022. The same foundations now power a bot I'm growing into my working day.
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