1. The Council

    A reusable NicAI skill that raises any artifact's quality through a make, critique, score loop until a weighted panel of expert agents converges.
  2. LLM Wiki

    refining my workflows with Andrej Karpathy's wiki approach

    23 Jul 2026 | in ai

  3. Home Assistant

    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.
  4. Sinn 856 I B

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

    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.
  6. Cameras for home studio

    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.
  7. RAID Types for a NAS

    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.
  8. fal.ai

    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.
  9. FluidVoice

    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.