A hobbyist's personal notes on home plant automation, covering smart sensors, humidifiers and drip irrigation, with a shared Home Assistant-style script. Other entries are short updates on air plants and yearly harvests.
Website: https://plants.samr.dev/
Detailed first-person field notes on running a homelab, covering self-hosted NetBird upgrades and backups, Docker network segmentation, and Home Assistant energy cost modelling. Readers get concrete configurations, scripts, and the reasoning behind each decision.
Hands-on technical posts about home lab and smart home problems, such as a custom OPNsense plugin for wildcard FQDN aliases and Home Assistant integrations for Eufy cameras and a Marstek battery. Each issue walks through the problem, the diagnosis and the working solution in first-person detail.
A personal newsletter documenting a self-hosted home energy setup, including a Python heating planner, a solar and battery charge planner, and motorbike trip writeups. Issues share measured data, charts and honest caveats about what the systems do and don't prove, along with notes on maintaining them with Claude Code.
First-person stories and guides about upgrading a home with batteries, heat pumps, induction cooking and home automation. Readers get practical detail on costs, tradeoffs and troubleshooting from hands-on projects.
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