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September 8, 2025/6 min read

Goodbye Raspberry Pi, Hello Mac Mini: My Quest for the Ultimate Home Server

How I upgraded from a struggling Raspberry Pi 4 to a Mac Mini powerhouse -- running Plex, Home Assistant, AI models, and a full dev playground, all from one silent machine.

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August 18, 2025/5 min read

One Month With a 3D Printer: From Plastic Doodles to a Fully Connected Smart Workshop

How the Bambu A1 went from printing trinkets to becoming an integrated part of my smart home -- with Home Assistant monitoring, practical prints, and AI-powered future plans.

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FeaturedJuly 13, 2025/8 min read

My House Thinks: Building a Genius-Level Smart Home with AI

How I combined Home Assistant, n8n, and Google Gemini LLM to create a home with ambient intelligence -- from AI-powered daily digests to context-aware security alerts.

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FeaturedMarch 18, 2025/8 min read

Unlocking Database Secrets: AI-Powered Insight Extraction

A deep dive into Patent US 12,254,015 B1 -- a system that uses Generative AI to extract meaningful insights and visualizations from relational databases through natural language queries.

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February 9, 2025/8 min read

InstaGenie: Building a Personal AI Image Artist as a Telegram Bot

A step-by-step guide to building a Telegram bot that generates AI images from text, voice, and photo inputs -- using n8n, Replicate's Flux model, custom LoRAs, and Supabase.

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