Building a smart-home TTS stack on hardware you already own — no GPU, no cloud API, no bill. We wanted text-to-speech for automation triggers that runs locally, on existing CPU hardware, without sending every doorbell announcement through a third-party API. So we built a FastAPI service around Kokoro ONNX with voice blending, dialogue scripting, and […]
Every prediction someone makes online deserves accountability. We built Since — a self-hosted temporal claim tracker — to register predictions, record past events, attach evidence, open disputes, and verify outcomes over time. The stack is deliberately lightweight: React 19, PocketBase, Express.js, and Docker. Here’s why we chose each piece, what surprised us, and what we’d […]
How we built TorqueBooks — a multi-tenant workshop management system using PocketBase, React, and Keycloak. Real war stories from 8 weeks of development.
This long-form deep dive unpacks how ForkMyFolio’s backend turns a simple personal portfolio into a multi-user, slug-driven, production-ready platform built on Java 21 and Spring Boot 3. Updated: December 4, 2025 Tech Stack: Java 21, Spring Boot 3, Spring Security, JPA, Docker What You’ll Learn Layered Spring Boot Architecture How controllers, services, repositories, DTOs, and mappers fit […]
The NemesisNet Homelab: A Personal Data Center Most people build a gaming PC. I built a full-stack, self-hosted platform that powers everything from development to analytics. Most people build a gaming PC. I built a data center in my house. The NemesisNet Homelab didn’t appear overnight. What started as a single switch and a few […]
