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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.

Open-source, local-first home automation platform, and how I would run it alongside my Apple Home, UniFi, Hue, and Tesla Powerwall setup.

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.

A single-purpose macOS app I built with Electron to present my reveal.js decks fullscreen on an external monitor, with its own embedded server. No browser, no tabs, no chrome.

The Meiji-era Japanese friction-folder pocket knife, still hand-made by its only authentic maker, Nagao Kanekoma in Miki, with steels, sizes and prices.

The 25L Mous Extreme Commuter (Lid) backpack: AiroFoam laptop protection, Fidlock flap, lockable YKK zips, ballistic nylon, fits a 16-inch MacBook.

The Alpenkraft Steinmatte, a fast-drying stone bath mat made of Kieselgur (diatomaceous earth) that absorbs water in seconds instead of staying damp like a textile mat.

How to generate slide decks with an AI agent from a prompt: the text/markup frameworks an LLM can write source for, plus the AI-native SaaS generators they replace.

Marp turns plain Markdown into slide decks and exports them to HTML, PDF, PPTX, and PNG from a single CLI command.

My single-file reveal.js deck system: a central always-latest theme, a central media library, a local server, PDF/PPTX export, and agentic generation reviewed by the Council.

reveal.js is an open-source HTML presentation framework where slides are plain HTML or Markdown, which makes it ideal for AI/agent-generated decks.

The Alpenkraft ZugSpitze shower head I bought in 2025, plus the zeolite/activated-carbon filter pearls that go in the handle.