A smart home hobby blog covering DIY and practical automation, such as controlling cheap IR-remote LED candles via a Tasmota-flashed blaster and Home Assistant. It also promotes a large sponsored smart home cinema project and a planned high-tech residence, with the latter mostly announcement-style text.
Website: https://smarthomegeeks.io/
Practical build notes on putting AI layers on top of real systems, including a smart home run through Home Assistant and Claude, a Cloudflare Worker proxy over closed commerce platforms, and brand-specific AI assistants. Each issue walks through the problem, the architecture chosen and the tradeoffs.
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.
Claire Broadley writes about practical AI use and content strategy, including a hands-on account of using Claude to locate a lost robot vacuum via cloud data and a critique of formulaic AI-generated marketing copy. Her newsletter offers first-person, tool-specific walkthroughs and sharp editorial observations on low-effort content.
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