What I Did With My Career Break

What I Did With My Career Break

I took 2024 off from Elastic to knock out a punch list. It turned into almost three years of chicken coops, ponds, a homelab, Home Assistant, and a pile of local AI projects. Here is what the break turned into, just before I start at GitLab.
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Eden, a Yard Agent Built on LangGraph

Eden, a Yard Agent Built on LangGraph

Ceres has been running the raised bed garden for a while now. It has specialists for watering, planting, pests and phenology, and it puts together a morning briefing every day. Kim raves about how much it has helped her understand…
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Nova’s Fast dev API

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…
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Network & Home Automation Apps

Network & Home Automation Apps

In all, I have quite a few components keeping my home automation system running. Some are apps I use every day, some are for managing different parts of the infrastructure and a few are for entertainment. Nearly everything here runs…
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A love letter to Docker Compose

A love letter to Docker Compose

Today I moved my Home Assistant setup from the NAS it's been on for 3+ years, to my frigate server. With Frigate processing 15 cameras for objects, both the CPU and GPU rarely rose over 10%. I had noticed some…
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Kasa Smart Devices and Home Assistant

Kasa Smart Devices and Home Assistant

When I moved into the new house, I decided I wanted to leave Philips Hue behind. The lights were too expensive and I wanted to incorporate more kinds of devices like switches into the system. At the same time, I…
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