Once the archive was consolidated, searching it was still painful. This is about using vision models to auto-tag photos by people, places, and events — so you can actually find the picture you’re thinking of without scrolling through ten thousand thumbnails.

Years of photos spread across Google Takeout exports, old hard drives, cloud services, and phones. This is the story of building a pipeline to consolidate everything — deduplication, encryption, NAS storage, and Plex — without losing a single memory.

An experiment in algorithmic trading — without any real money on the line. Building a bot that watches markets, forms a view, and executes trades in a paper account. What the strategy is, how the backtesting works, and what the paper results look like so far.

Reachy Mini is a desktop robot from Pollen Robotics with an expressive face and arms. Robot Comic is an experiment in giving it a personality — making it tell jokes, react, and hold a conversation. Notes on the hardware, SDK quirks, and what it’s like to give a robot a sense of humor.

A graveyard of half-finished hardware: sunflower-tracking Arduinos, Pimoroni Enviro Grow boards, e-ink bus displays, and more. This is about dusting them off, fixing what’s broken, and finishing what I started — or at least figuring out why I stopped.

A catch-up post. Robotics, personal projects, hardware tinkering, software experiments — a quick tour of where things stand and what’s been occupying my time lately.