Captain’s log // Field journal
I'm Andrew, and this is where I write up the projects, reviews and rabbit holes that might be useful—or at least interesting—to someone else. Expect AI adventures, homelab and IoT builds, astronomy, and the occasional hard-won lesson.
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My custom Home Assistant dashboard now covers the house, homelab and media servers, with work and gaming routines, paid-power charts, traffic, phone locations and an astronomy planner.
Continue reading →23 Sept 2026 · learning, ai
I used a self-hosted OpenMAIC classroom alongside Stéphane Maarek’s Udemy course and practice exams to prepare for AWS Certified AI Practitioner. On Sunday, I sat the proctored exam at home—and passed.
05 Sept 2026 · homelab
I turned the monitor attached to one Proxmox host into a full-screen fleet wallboard, while keeping the normal console one key away.
27 Aug 2026 · projects
I built Kitchen Companion to turn saved recipes into a practical cooking workflow, then had to solve the decidedly less glamorous problems of imports, privacy, background work and safe releases.
27 Aug 2026 · projects
I replaced the old Pinnacle Hill Observatory WordPress site with a faster, self-contained field journal that gives the images and the observatory build room to breathe.
11 Feb 2026 · AI, Projects
I built an iPad app today. From zero to App Store submission in about 12 hours. Not a side project that’ll sit in a repo somewhere – an actual submission… Read more »
07 Feb 2026 · AI, Homelab
I’ve been running The Captains Log on WordPress for a while now, but recently decided to give it a proper home on my homelab server rather than relying on shared… Read more »
Focused briefings on technology developments worth understanding, researched beyond the launch-day noise.
12 Nov 2026 · tech-news
Spacefast connects existing AI agents to hosting, databases, versioned releases and guarded production changes. The important shift is not another builder, but infrastructure designed for agents to operate.
05 Nov 2026 · tech-news
Intelligent Terminal 0.3 adds live agent status, cross-window session search and headless tabs. The useful shift is operational visibility, with important limits.
29 Oct 2026 · tech-news
Cisco’s open-source FAITH harness now evaluates multi-step security agents, recording their tool use and testing whether they can find vulnerable files without flagging patched code.
22 Oct 2026 · tech-news
Hy-Memory 2.0 separates remembering from answering, with an open model, framework and shared-memory app aimed at agents that must carry useful state across sessions.
15 Oct 2026 · tech-news
Hermes Agent's 0.22 release combines managed local inference, pinned plugins, multiplexed profiles and safer updates into a more operable self-hosted agent platform.