I was looking at property to invest in and couldn't tell a good asking price from a hopeful one. So I built a tool that pulls listings, compares them with government-recorded sales, and scores every deal from 0 to 100. Here's how it works and what it found.
In 2022 I built a home server for about AED 4,300: three 6 TB drives in RAID 5, Proxmox for isolation, and the services my family actually uses. Here's the hardware, the reasoning, and what I'd tell myself before starting.
I wanted one interface for everything — email, memory, research, reminders, my job search — and that interface had to be a chat. Here's the architecture behind it, the decisions that held up, and the ones I had to undo.
I was looking at property to invest in and couldn't tell a good asking price from a hopeful one. So I built a tool that pulls listings, compares them with government-recorded sales, and scores every deal from 0 to 100. Here's how it works and what it found.
Read MoreIn 2022 I built a home server for about AED 4,300: three 6 TB drives in RAID 5, Proxmox for isolation, and the services my family actually uses. Here's the hardware, the reasoning, and what I'd tell myself before starting.
Read MoreI wanted one interface for everything — email, memory, research, reminders, my job search — and that interface had to be a chat. Here's the architecture behind it, the decisions that held up, and the ones I had to undo.
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Read MoreI run a self-hosted AI chief-of-staff for myself. A friend who runs deal-flow at a family office asked for one. Here's the architecture, the build plan, and the design decisions that actually matter.
Read MoreI spent a week using a Plaud recorder as the capture layer for my self-hosted AI assistant — meetings, car rides, late-night voice memos. Here's what worked, what hallucinated, and the pipeline design lessons.
Read MoreI linked my Instagram followers and following to my personal CRM, classified 900 accounts into topical buckets, and built an unfollow workflow — using only official data exports. No scraping, no API abuse, no account risk.
Read MoreThe most important component in my self-hosted AI assistant is the one that says no. Why every outbound action goes through a deterministic approval gate, and why that lives in code, not in a prompt.
Read MoreAgent memory is where most personal-AI projects quietly fail. Why my self-hosted assistant uses Hindsight for semantic memory, what kinds of memory it actually captures, and the honest gotchas from running it in production.
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