Open-source, local-first home automation platform. My journey hub, now running the Home Assistant Green and Voice PE alongside Apple Home, UniFi, Hue, and Tesla Powerwall.

NOMOS's Bauhaus Tangente in midnight blue, running the in-house neomatik DUW 6101 automatic with the patented peripheral ring date.

Two Home Assistant Green starter kits compared, the difference is the radio: Connect ZBT-2 vs Sonoff Dongle Max. Same chip, different antenna and mounting.

Tractive DOG 6 GPS dog tracker, brown, bought July 2026. Specs, real-world notes, and the subscription that runs it.

Discontinued blue-dial 856, sold only through WatchBuys in the US. Never actually a numbered limited edition, despite the reputation.

Pi is a minimal, open-source, bring-your-own-key coding agent harness, and the harness alone can cut cost about 2x for the same model.

How Ben AI builds a Claude-based sales operating system: a second brain of intelligence, daily routines that keep it current, and a dashboard that replaces the CRM.

The 20 French watch brands from Teddy Baldassarre's guide, each with its site, history, and lineup, with field and aviator models flagged.

How context rot quietly degrades Claude's outputs, how to track it with /context, and why a refresh skill beats /compact for carrying a task into a fresh chat.

Choosing an always-on studio camera for a green-screen Teams and recording setup: why the BMPCC falls short, the Sony a6700 I already own, and the Lumix S5 II as the ideal upgrade.

How to shoot a clean green-screen key: even lighting, subject separation, and camera settings, including why f/4 beats shooting wide open.

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Palm-sized OpenWrt VPN security gateway (GL-MT2500A) with WireGuard to 355 Mbps and a 2.5G WAN, and how it fits behind my UniFi network.

How the common RAID levels work in a NAS, the URE rebuild trap on big drives, and which config to pick when moving from a Synology DS413j to a UniFi UNAS Pro.

Craftsmanship-first guide to the world's best sunglasses makers, tiered from hidden gems to the pinnacle, plus where to buy in Europe.

Italian-made minimalist white leather sneaker, the smarter-money answer to Common Projects at around $265.

Generative media platform with one API for the best image and video models (Flux 2, Nano Banana Pro, Ideogram), wired into NicAI to make sales-deck visuals on demand.

Free, open-source, on-device voice-to-text for macOS with a choice of local models (Parakeet, Whisper, Apple Speech), pitched as a Wispr Flow alternative.

The back extension for a stronger, more resilient lower back and posterior chain, how to start and progress it, and the best benches to buy in Germany.

The six most common mistakes people make building an AI OS (second brain), the fix for each, and a prompt to apply them to your own setup.

Ben AI's De-Slop skill, a quality gate that checks any AI output before it ships, and how it compares to my own anti-AI-writing guidelines.

Dell's 52-inch 6K curved ultrawide Thunderbolt hub monitor, pitched as a single screen that replaces a dual-monitor desk.