A personal blog by Chris DeFlumeri covering his hands-on home automation build with Home Assistant, local-only Zigbee and Z-Wave hardware, and remote access, alongside rambling life updates about becoming a stay-at-home dad and occasional track-day photos. Readers get a practical look at a fully local smart home setup mixed with informal personal anecdotes.
Website: https://deflumeri.com/
A sysadmin-focused newsletter by a hands-on practitioner covering firewall configuration, smart home automation and infrastructure tooling, with step-by-step write-ups of real home-lab problems. Readers get concrete technical solutions such as OPNsense wildcard aliases, migrating Eufy cameras to a new integration stack, and controlling a battery with Home Assistant.
A UK home-automation writer documents a self-built Python heating planner, solar and battery ROI tracking, and motorbike trip write-ups, with measured data behind each design choice. The issues show concrete numbers, honest caveats about weak fits and attribution, and notes on working with Claude Code.
A practical home-improvement newsletter covering electrification, home energy, automation and appliance swaps such as induction stoves and heat pump water heaters. Readers get first-person accounts, hands-on reasoning about costs and tradeoffs, and personal tests of home systems.
A personal technical blog-style newsletter covering self-hosted projects, AI coding agent infrastructure, and production RAG engineering. Readers get first-person build stories with concrete implementation detail, code, and design reasoning.
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