IT security, infrastructure, and building things that work.
A household operating system built on Home Assistant. Voice pipeline with local STT, adaptive dashboard on a living room kiosk, SMS bridge for family messaging, presence-aware magic buttons, and person-aware automations. One coherent system instead of a pile of smart-home tricks.
Complete sovereignty stack. Migrated off Google to self-hosted Nextcloud, Proton Mail, Vaultwarden, Immich, and Paperless-ngx. Everything behind Cloudflare tunnels and a Caddy reverse proxy, backed up daily to Backblaze B2.
Automated playlist generation from a self-hosted music library. Weekly playlists built from listening history, sonic analysis, and unplayed tracks. ListenBrainz scrobbling, embedded lyrics, and a Soulseek integration for hard-to-find albums.
Self-hosted on a mini PC in a cupboard in Banbury.