🌙 Killing Mildew in the Dark
A farm robot is replacing pesticides with UV light at night. The clever part isn’t the robot — it’s the darkness. Here’s the home version, and the honest scope of what it can and can’t do.
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🎙️ Cloning My Own Voice for My Kid's Audiobooks
Zero-shot voice cloning with XTTS-v2 on a CPU-only k3s node: 26 seconds of phone audio in, a cloned-voice audiobook out — and an honest verdict from the bedtime jury. Every manual step, including the ones that went wrong.
🌱 My Second Brain Weeds Itself Now
I gave my markdown knowledge base a nightly gardener — an AI that finds orphan notes and missing links and fixes them, every change a reviewable git commit. The fun part was the Kubernetes wall I hit on the way.
🎯 Know the Market Without Job-Hunting: An LLM-Scored Job Poller in n8n
You don’t have to be job-hunting to want to know your market — what’s out there, what it pays, where you’d fit. So I built an n8n workflow: it polls the public ATS APIs (Greenhouse/Lever/Ashby) plus a broad remote-jobs feed, filters for remote-EU infra roles, scores each posting against my CV with an LLM, and emails me only the 80%+ matches. No database, no scraping.
🪟 I Built Yet Another Claude Code Session Switcher
The web is flooded with Claude Code session managers. I built one more anyway — and the part worth sharing isn’t the tool, it’s what I had to learn about where Claude actually keeps your sessions.
🧠 A Second Brain You Can `git clone`
My first second brain died the way most do — on multi-device sync. The rebuild: plain markdown as the source of truth, every clever layer derived and disposable, and an AI that tends it through reviewable git diffs.
🫙 I Built a Tracker for My Kombucha. The Data Model Was the Hard Part.
Brewing kombucha looks simple until you try to model it: one batch splits into many flavored bottles, every jar generates a stream of pH and taste readings, and a SCOBY has a lineage. Here’s the little app I built to keep track — and why the schema, not the code, was the real work.
🧱 How Do You Isolate Two n8n Tenants on Kubernetes — and Prove Each Wall Holds?
Multi-tenant isolation is easy to assert and hard to verify. Three walls — network, secret, resource — and the actual 403s, timeouts, and admission rejections that prove each one holds.
Via Stoica: Privacy Policy
Privacy policy for the Via Stoica Android app.
🍵 I A/B-Tested Cloud vs Local LLMs in One n8n Agent. The Local One Faked It.
I built an AI agent in self-hosted n8n over my kombucha-tracking app, then gave it two brains — NVIDIA’s 70B and a local Phi-3.5 — sharing the same tools. The cloud model called the tools and answered from real data. The local one couldn’t, so it made things up.