Throttling doorbell notifications to the ones that matter
I rolled out face-recognition notifications on my front-door doorbell and got spammed with hundreds of pushes in a few hours. I killed the cron, audited…
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Downsampling the way out of a CNN out-of-memory loop
Doorbell camera snapshots come in at 1536x1536. I wanted to run them through a CNN face detector to label visitors. The detector kept getting OOM-killed…
Read →Editing Home Assistant OS config without the SSH add-on
I deployed Home Assistant OS as a VM on Proxmox so I could try a Wi-Fi smart lock. HA proxied through nginx returned HTTP 400 on every request. The fix…
Read →Face recognition on the front door with an active-learning loop
I wanted my front door doorbell to do something more interesting than "someone moved." Specifically: "the dog walker is here," or "an unknown person is…
Read →Spoken morning briefing on an Echo, without writing a skill
I wanted a JARVIS-style morning briefing — calendar, weather, finances, todos, the day's notable anniversaries — spoken out loud on the Echo Studio in…
Read →OneDrive sync was reverting my backend edits
Every few days my backend would lose a recent fix. The change would work, restart the service, work for hours, then vanish. Git showed the old code back…
Read →Route files were losing the immutable bit
I set chattr +i on my backend's main.py after a sync bug kept silently overwriting it. Months later, the iOS app started losing connectivity on a…
Read →Shipping an iOS build headlessly over SSH
I wanted to build and install my iOS app from a remote agent session — no Xcode window open, nobody at the Mac. xcodebuild over SSH refused to codesign…
Read →Backfilling Signal history that the server doesn't have
I wanted my homelab assistant to have access to my Signal history the same way it has my iMessage and email. Signal's whole point is that the server…
Read →A JARVIS-voiced morning briefing on the Echo Studio
I wanted something to talk at me when I get up — weather, todos, the date, sober days, mortgage-due reminder, homelab status. Not when an alarm fires…
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