Personal guides on self-hosting, finance, AI, home lab experiments, and the systems that keep a house running smoothly. Written for reference, designed for focus.
Each collection holds a set of focused guides. Start with one and wander as far as you need.
Private infrastructure, containers, and cloud deployments.
→ 002Budgeting, tax prep, and personal financial systems.
→ 003Hermes, agents, and workflow automation.
→ 004Servers, networking, and experiments.
→ 005Routines, checklists, and decision logs.
→ 006Cheatsheets, commands, and glossaries.
→ 007Languages, patterns, debugging, and practical build workflows.
→These five are the ones I keep returning to. They've worked, they've been revised, and they still hold up.
Ordered routes turn individual references into practical operating skills. Follow a complete path or jump in at the step you need today.
Start with the operating model, understand the network, add event-driven devices, then finish with repeatable automation and recovery practice.
Understand voice and assistant boundaries first, then add workflow automation and finish with an owned room appliance.
Learn Firefly III, establish a calm household review rhythm, then make imports, reconciliation, backups and year-end continuity routine.
Recent work from the home lab, recent deployments, and small experiments worth sharing.
Source-grounded deployment, Access protection, verification, rollback, and stale-build recovery for this Astro knowledge base.
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