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.
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Thoughts, tutorials, and explorations in tech, development, and homelab projects.
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.
Read more →Automating Proxmox Host Restarts with Gitea Actions
Building a fully automated workflow to safely restart Proxmox hosts while maintaining Kubernetes cluster availability and the journey of fixing everything that broke along the way.
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