About me
I’ve spent more than 20 years building systems and keeping them stable. This is where I write up the parts that actually worked.
Outside of work, my favorite playground is IoT and smart devices. I like the moment a messy real-life problem turns into a clean automated flow: a sensor that tells the truth, and a setup that keeps working long after you stop paying attention to it.
This blog is where I collect those wins, and the failures that lead to them. It’s a workshop journal: experiments, guides, troubleshooting notes, and opinions about what makes “smart” technology feel natural instead of annoying.
Most of what ends up here is hardware that was never meant to be smart: a Bluetooth LED strip with a closed protocol, a boiler talking over a two-wire bus, whatever else is in the rack. I get it speaking to Home Assistant properly, then write down how.