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Building Ceres, a Multi-Agent Garden Assistant

We are growing a lot of vegetables this year. Carrots, cauliflower, russet potatoes, Roma tomatoes, and more are all going into fourteen raised beds in our garden. We have done our research, but there are a lot of variables in…

May 12, 2026AI Projects, Home Automation, Homestead

I Stopped Doom Scrolling By Building My Own News Feed

A few weeks ago I stopped using Reddit. Not because the content was bad. There's genuinely useful stuff there, but because I had no control over it. I was just overwhelmed with irrelevant content, negative content and constant suggestion of…

May 7, 2026AI Projects, Development, Productivity

Why I Swapped InfluxDB for TimescaleDB – The LLM Tax

For years, InfluxDB has been the data backbone of my Home Assistant setup. With the native Home Assistant integration and Grafana, I had my dashboards dialed in. While FluxQL was a bit of a learning curve, I was able to…

April 24, 2026AI Projects, Home Automation

Listening to the Birds with AI – My Local HaikuBox

A few year ago, I saw a very cool product. Haikubox, is a small device that listens to birds at home, identifies them and gives you a nice web interface to see what's going on. Over time, I realized one…

April 23, 2026AI Projects, Python

AI-Powered Security Camera Reviews with Frigate, n8n, and Ollama

Frigate is great at detecting objects. It will tell you a person showed up at the front porch, or that a car pulled into the driveway. What it won't tell you is whether that person is your neighbor waving hello…

April 17, 2026AI Projects, Home Automation, Security

From Coral to Hailo: Why I Finally Swapped My Frigate AI Hardware

I have been running Frigate for quite a while now. The Google Coral TPU has long been the "gold standard" for edge processing object detection. It’s efficient, cheap, and handles MobileNet models like a champ. But as my camera count…

February 26, 2026AI Projects, Home Automation, Security

Goodbye Ring, Hello Privacy

With it being ever more likely that someone could access Ring cameras or lock me out of access to Ring footage, I decided it was time to leave Ring for the doorbell cameras. I had two, one on the house,…

January 13, 2026AI Projects, Security

From Smart Bulbs to Skynet: The 2026 State of my Home Automation

When I left Elastic, one of my goals was to dive deep into home automation and finally "level up" my setup. Looking back at where I started when we first moved to Graham, it’s almost comical. Back then, "Home Automation"…

January 1, 2026AI Projects, Computers, Home Automation, Security

Co-Writing Music with AI

I set out last week with a simple but slightly provocative question: Can I write a song with AI the same way I would if I hired a professional producer and songwriter? I didn’t want the AI to just do…

November 2, 2025AI Projects, Music

Nova’s Fast dev API

Today's been about getting this thing set up properly. I'm not a developer by trade, but I've always been a coder. That being said, I consider myself a prototype developer, so my projects tend to be loosely managed. I wanted…

July 3, 2025AI Projects, Home Automation, Python