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A Quick Detour This one's a bit different from what I usually post here on The Digital Homestead. I got sidetracked digging into something while working on a pricing project, and it turned into a rabb
In my last post about The Construct, I mentioned building a Claude Code skill to onboard new services into the deployment pipeline. That worked well enough that I kept pulling on the thread: if an AI
Most home labs are a patchwork of one-off scripts. A Bash file here, a manual docker compose up there, and a README note that says "run this first." It works until it doesn't. When something breaks at
The Digital Homestead · Home Automation
In my last post I introduced five principles I consider non-negotiable for a well-run smart home. Today I'm going deep on principle 02: Security. Most home network security advice stops at "use a stro
The Digital Homestead · Home Automation Most smart home setups fail not because of bad hardware, but because they neglect the fundamentals. After years of designing and refining my own system, I've se
