I have so much personal automation and small web apps running on my VPS, laptop, and on my phone it's hard to know where to start.
- laptop, phone (termux), Linux VPS, and home inference machine can all see each other on the same Wireguard network via the VPS.
- Todo list web app for our family shopping list. Used daily for many years now.
- Personal daily updating dashboard with important numbers I care about, life metrics, weather, etc.
- Projects priority list which tells me what to do each day based on last update for each project (each project has a desired frequency of work and it prioritises by "lateness"). Checks git activity and RSS feeds to see what I'm neglecting.
- "Note to self" app and voice automation which transcribes and adds to my Joplin notebook on my laptop.
- AI agent on my phone I can long-press power button and give spoken commands ("add milk to the shopping list"). Uses private home inference machine, see below.
- Social media POSSE syndication scripts. Mastodon posts are syndicated to other networks.
- Blog posting pipeline from my Joplin notebook out to the web.
- Home inference machine (mostly solar powered) I use for personal finance, automation, note search, and other sensitive AI tasks.
- Self-hosted calendar and contacts (separate VPS but same idea).
I don't log in to Google at all. With LLMs now it's very little work to build and maintain these things. Absolutely wild time to be a home tinkerer.
- laptop, phone (termux), Linux VPS, and home inference machine can all see each other on the same Wireguard network via the VPS.
- Todo list web app for our family shopping list. Used daily for many years now.
- Personal daily updating dashboard with important numbers I care about, life metrics, weather, etc.
- Projects priority list which tells me what to do each day based on last update for each project (each project has a desired frequency of work and it prioritises by "lateness"). Checks git activity and RSS feeds to see what I'm neglecting.
- "Note to self" app and voice automation which transcribes and adds to my Joplin notebook on my laptop.
- AI agent on my phone I can long-press power button and give spoken commands ("add milk to the shopping list"). Uses private home inference machine, see below.
- Social media POSSE syndication scripts. Mastodon posts are syndicated to other networks.
- Blog posting pipeline from my Joplin notebook out to the web.
- Home inference machine (mostly solar powered) I use for personal finance, automation, note search, and other sensitive AI tasks.
- Self-hosted calendar and contacts (separate VPS but same idea).
I don't log in to Google at all. With LLMs now it's very little work to build and maintain these things. Absolutely wild time to be a home tinkerer.