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Guides and tutorials: web development, infrastructure, Android apps, and self-hosting. This is the tech notebook. The personal posts live over in Life, no tech there.
October 18, 2026 Ari can do what you'd sit down at a computer to do Michael Saul on Ari's own computer and real browser: Ari handles files, installs software, books and fills forms online, and asks before it spends money or sends anything. October 18, 2026 Home Assistant gave Ari a sense of home Michael Saul on wiring Home Assistant, three cameras and a self-hosted NVR into Ari: a dashboard with a live floorplan, and home moments that Ari can act on. May 31, 2026 Why I built Ari, an AI accountability assistant you text Michael Saul on why Ari exists: reminder apps fail at follow-through, so Ari lives in the chat apps you already answer, remembers what matters, and keeps you on your goal. February 13, 2026 Building My Homelab, Proxmox, VLANs, and 35+ Self-Hosted Services A deep dive into my home network architecture — two Proxmox nodes, MikroTik routing with VLAN segmentation, and all the services that make it run February 9, 2026 Adding Multi-User Support and OIDC to Shelfmark How I added OIDC authentication, per-user settings, and multi-user download management to Shelfmark February 8, 2026 Free Custom Domain Email with Cloudflare and SMTP2Go How to set up a professional email like [email protected] using Cloudflare Email Routing and SMTP2Go, all through Gmail February 6, 2026 Running OpenClaw Safely on Proxmox as a systemd Service OpenClaw Guide · starts here Complete guide to running OpenClaw securely in a Proxmox LXC container with proper sandboxing and systemd integration February 1, 2026 Jellyseerr OIDC with Pocket ID on Proxmox Jellyseerr OIDC · starts here How to build Jellyseerr from source with OIDC support and connect it to Pocket ID for single sign-on
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