Writing
Notes
Occasional notes on (mostly personal) projects.
Turning music videos into social cutdowns
A production tool that combines musical structure, shot detection and face tracking to prepare clips from finished music videos.
Enter the Electroverse
Reverse-engineering Electroverse to get charger availability and nearly-full alerts into Home Assistant.
Giving an Echo Dot a new brain
Ditching a Gemini-lobotomised Google Home for a rooted Echo Dot running EchoLocal, Home Assistant, local Parakeet speech-to-text, Piper TTS, and fast Cerebras MCP tools.
A fitness coach with access to my data
Connecting Fitbit Air readings, workout logs, scale measurements and grocery receipts to Hermes, so I can ask about my actual progress.
Predicting my shopping list from receipts
Combining voice-added Google Keep items with automatic suggestions predicted from digital supermarket receipts.
Automating a £0 parking booking
Reverse-engineering a legitimate £0 parking booking, wiring it into Home Assistant, and discovering why a fired automation is not proof that anything useful happened.
Fitbit stats on a Pebble
Building Health Glance with Cursor: bridging Fitbit data through Health Connect to a Pebble Time 2.
Logging workouts from my wrist
Stripping a workout app down to a checklist, putting it on a Pebble Time 2, and letting my coach reshape the routine between visits.
A daily budget from Monzo
A self-hosted Monzo dashboard and morning Pushover alert that calculate safe daily spend, scan for bills, and let me interrogate my pace via MCP.