Building a Pool Heater
Piecing together a custom heater setup for my backyard pool
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Thoughts, tutorials, and explorations in tech, development, and homelab projects.
The Evolution of SpendSeer
How SpendSeer changed after launch, from the original yearly overview to better imports, recurring payment detection, loan reviews, goal context, and operational polish.
Read more →Accuracy over Speed: Experimenting with a Two-Pass AI Pipeline for Local LLMs
How I tested whether server-local AI could handle financial document extraction well enough to avoid relying on a large hosted model API.
Read more →From Homelab Tool to SaaS: What I Learned Launching Spendseer
What I learned turning a homelab budgeting tool into my first paid SaaS, and why the post itself got delayed.
Read more →Kube Manager: Building a Personal PaaS for My Homelab
Building my own Kubernetes deployment platform driven by Git webhooks to simplify deploying all my side projects, and what I learned about AI-assisted development along the way.
Read more →Battle of the Brains: A One‑Evening Jackbox‑Style Math Game
Building a Jackbox-style math party game in one evening for my kids, using Vite, TypeScript, and a reused WebSocket backend.
Read more →Reviving a Godot Multiplayer Prototype with a Real Backend
Taking a tutorial-based Godot multiplayer game and reshaping it around a real backend, with deployment and scaling constraints in mind.
Read more →How I Bulk Removed Roblox Friends with Browser Developer Tools
A practical walkthrough of using browser developer tools and ChatGPT to script bulk Roblox friend removal.
Read more →Grafana, Alloy, Loki, and Tempo for Shopify Oxygen Log & Trace Ingestion
A self-hosted solution for ingesting and visualizing Shopify Oxygen worker logs and traces using the Grafana ecosystem.
Read more →Migrating from SQLite to PostgreSQL Without an ORM: A Humbling Experience
What I learned migrating two Rust apps from SQLite to PostgreSQL without an ORM and why ORMs save you from so much pain.
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