Smart home · Travel notes · Built in NJ
A homelab and a travel journal. The first is a deeply over-engineered local-first smart home; the second is a growing archive of itineraries built the way I'd want one handed to me. Both treated as engineering problems.
Home Assistant on bare metal, Mac Mini Docker stack, Reolink PoE cameras, Ollama running local LLMs, Tailscale tying it all together. What I built and how.
Enter Tech →National parks, far-flung islands, long road trips. Detailed enough to actually use, opinionated enough to skip the bad calls. Take what's useful, ignore the rest.
Enter Travel →