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🏡 Bringing Everything Together If you’ve ever dabbled in smart-home tech, you’ll know the feeling: one app for lights, another for cameras, a third for heating, and half a dozen others for everything else. Each one works in isolation — but your home doesn’t. That’s where Home Assistant

In today’s connected world, almost every service we run ends up needing some form of secure remote access. Whether it’s a self-hosted dashboard, automation tool like n8n, or even a private web app, the challenge is always the same: how do you expose it to the internet without

In the ever-evolving landscape of software engineering, building scalable and maintainable user interfaces has become paramount. Enter Storybook, a powerful open-source tool that has revolutionised how developers design, develop, and test UI components in isolation. When working with frontend frameworks like React or Vite with TypeScript (which bring type safety

In my previous article, I walked through the fundamentals of getting started with 3D printing - from understanding filament types and slicers, to getting your first print off the bed. After some time spent learning and experimenting, and almost 3 years not doing any 3D printing, I decided to level

If you're looking to self-host n8n on a Raspberry Pi for home automation or personal workflow orchestration, you're in the right place. In this post, I’ll walk you through how I installed n8n using npm (no Docker required) on a Raspberry Pi 4, and made

How can a machine replace a skilled software developer or engineer? There’s no denying that machines are incredibly powerful. They can analyse vast amounts of data, follow instructions with absolute precision, and execute tasks with remarkable speed and efficiency. But what they lack - at least for now -