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Self-hosted solar + battery ROI tracker, motorbike trip writeups with GPS routes, and notes on building it all with Claude Code.
A home ADS-B receiver in my back garden — an old Pi in a waterproof box — wired into Home Assistant, caught the 8 September NATS air-traffic outage in real time: aircraft overhead down 88% by teatime, and the backlog rebound the day after.
One tile on my solar page said zero. Fixing it took two minutes; working out why the fix wouldn't show took three AI assistants an evening of arguing and catching each other being wrong — and it left the code harder to fool.
I stopped writing my flat's Home Assistant code and started describing ideas instead — and Claude builds them, rewrites years of cruft in an evening, and even fixed my LED power-gauge frames from a photo. The gap between a thought and a thing on the wall has collapsed to a conversation.
I built a bedroom microphone that counts my snores. It can't detect a breathing pause and my watch disagrees with it — but it did nag me into booking a real sleep-apnea test.
A small wrapper around an amazing open-source UK bin-collection scraper — plus three upstream council fixes I sent along the way.
A £63 upgrade — one extra 100W mono panel — bumps the garden array from 600W to 700W and should pay for itself by autumn.