A personal blog by Noel Ferreria mixing home automation projects, such as running local AI object detection on security camera footage, with self-hosting tips and occasional concert reviews. Readers get practical setup walkthroughs and candid notes on the tools and trade-offs behind them.
Website: https://www.thenoel.org/
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.
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.
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