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Projects

Systems, tools, and applications — organized by what they do, not what they're written in. Status reflects reality: some of these are production, some are still being poked at.

AllInfrastructureAutomationSoftwareAI / AgentsLabs

Automation

active

ESP32 Smart Desk

Replacing a cheap standing desk's handset with an ESP32 so Home Assistant knows how high it is, can move it to an exact height, and stands me up when I've been sitting too long. No soldering, no new parts.

ESP32 · ESPHome · C++ · Home Assistant · mmWave presence

Updated 2026-10-27

AI / Agents

experimental

Homelab playground: Nous Research Hermes

Nous Research Hermes running in the homelab with terminal-level Proxmox access. It now picks up flaking Docker containers from Beszel monitoring, troubleshoots them, asks for approval over Telegram, and then fixes the root cause instead of just restarting the container.

Nous Research Hermes · Proxmox · Beszel · Telegram · Uptime Kuma · n8n · Docker

Updated 2026-10-23

Software

active

Google Review Intelligence

Single-admin internal tool that manually triggers Google review scrapes, imports them idempotently, and turns the result into rating trends, phrase analysis, and formula-safe CSV exports.

Next.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Prisma · pg-boss · DataForSEO · Apify · Docker

Updated 2026-09-23

Software

maintained

Lead Qualification System

Split-service pipeline that imports local business leads, scores each one on website opportunity, and syncs only the ones a human approves to HubSpot.

Next.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Prisma · Redis · BullMQ · Docker

Updated 2026-05-16

Software

maintained

Loom — Real-Time Site Structure Visualizer

A distributed crawler that maps a site into a live, physics-based graph — pages settle into orbit around their hubs as the crawl runs, streamed over Socket.io in real time.

Next.js · TypeScript · Redis · BullMQ · Socket.io · Docker · Coolify

Updated 2026-05-15

Infrastructure

experimental

Homelab Bootstrap Scripts

The shell scripts that turn a fresh Ubuntu box into a managed homelab node in one pass — Docker, the Portainer agent, and whatever comes next as the lab grows.

Bash · Docker · Portainer

Updated 2025-05-31

Automation

maintained

PowerShell Ops Toolbox

A growing library of PowerShell scripts for the problems that actually show up running Windows/AD environments: BitLocker + Autopilot enrollment, stale account audits, ACL reporting, license checks.

PowerShell · Active Directory · BitLocker · Windows Autopilot

Updated 2023-01-04