The ESP32 quietly became the most important chip in my smart home
…It had quietly become the backbone of my entire smart home. Related 7 sensors under $10 that completely changed my smart home You don't need to splurge to build a smart…
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I cut Apple and Google out of my smart home with a $5 ESP32, and it was easier than I expected
1w agoThe smart home upgrade nobody wants to do is labeling every cable and device
1w agoMost home servers are wildly overbuilt, and the N100 proved it to me
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1w agoI ditched Portainer for Dockhand and I regret not doing it sooner
…Related The single Docker container that made me a home lab power user This Docker container transformed my home lab Dockhand tackles these problems Small but useful feature add-ons Dockhand pays…
The worst gaming GPU in your drawer might be your best home server upgrade
…While it might not be adept at running the newest titles, old gaming GPUs have a ton of potential in a home server build, where they can excel at local media transcoding…
After a year of self-hosting LLMs, I realized the real bottleneck isn’t the GPU
…strategy Stop building a chatbot and start building a system The biggest mistake I made in my first few months of self-hosting was treating my local AI setup like a private…
I gave Claude Code my dotfiles, and it rewrote my whole shell
…way to approach this instead of opening your entire home directory to Claude Code. A lot of people already manage their shell setup through a Git repo with symlinks, where the real…
Your expensive headphones sound worse than they should, and the fix has nothing to do with them
…If you’ve ever wondered why your expensive setup doesn’t sound as good as it should, this is probably why. Related Your receiver is what makes or breaks your home theater…
My entire smart home runs on a single Docker container now, and I'm never going back
…Life in a Home Assistant house The speed factor and reliability Home Assistant offers a range of customization options. Once I moved into the dashboard editor, I realized I could build a…
I built a $100 ePaper photo frame that never touches the cloud, and it looks like a real print
…I wanted a photo frame that pulls from my own library, processes images locally, and never phones home. The result is a setup built on the Seeed Studio reTerminal E1002, Immich, Home…
I stopped looking for the perfect Stream Deck alternative and built one instead
…If you want a next-level setup, then using ESP Home and Home Assistant gives you that absolute premium level of integration. Your buttons don't just control your PC; they actually…