Project index / 12 entries

Builds, systems and ongoing experiments.

Large projects, useful write-ups and tiny notes share one rule: show the problem, the thinking and what actually happened.

01 building

Home-Ops: treating my house like a tiny production environment

A growing operational layer for the homelab: versioned configuration, recoverable change, monitoring and documentation that survives my memory.

Open project

02 building

Can I safely let AI operate my house?

A staged experiment in giving an AI-assisted operations environment useful visibility—and eventually narrow control—without pretending autonomy is magic.

Open project

03 rebuilding

Directional staircase lighting

Reworking unreliable motion lighting as a directional, addressable LED system with clear state and graceful fallback behaviour.

Open project

04 running

Building an enterprise-ish home network without making it unusable

Segmentation, resilient Wi-Fi and proper identity experiments—balanced against the fact that ordinary people still need the television to work.

Open project

05 building

Smart plant cabinet

A slightly over-engineered home for plants, with controlled light, ventilation and a path towards useful environmental feedback.

Open project

06 planned

Garage door automation, with boring safety first

Exploring relay control and state sensing for a roller door without publishing a blueprint for defeating the physical security around it.

Open project

07 building

Moving Zigbee coordination onto the network

Rolling out a PoE-connected Zigbee coordinator to improve placement, resilience and the separation between radio coverage and compute.

Open project

08 running

Making Home Assistant failures visible

Monitoring unavailable devices, stale state, low batteries and automation behaviour so “smart” systems fail loudly enough to fix.

Open project

09 running

Small automations that quietly earn their keep

A rolling collection of lighting, heating, energy, reminders and environmental automations that are too small for grand architecture diagrams.

Open project

10 running

Backups before automation

Automated VM protection with scheduled checks and restore evidence, built before higher-risk operational tooling gains control.

Open project

11 completed

Designing network transformation without losing the service

An anonymised professional perspective on moving multi-site networks towards a more resilient, supportable architecture.

Open project

12 completed

Making an IT operating model work after the slide deck

An anonymised professional project about service ownership, internal and external teams, transition and the operational detail between them.

Open project