Home automation. And everything around it.

I’m Matt. I build and run home automations, self-hosted services and small apps. This is where I share the projects and what I’ve learned.

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What I’m working on.

Energy, infrastructure and automation, with notes on how each project works.

01 Home-energy optimisation Using tariffs, solar generation and household demand to plan when to use and store energy. 02 Homelab architecture Running services at home, with monitoring, backups and a recovery plan for each one. 03 Certificate automation Renewing and deploying TLS certificates automatically, with restricted credentials and expiry checks. View all case studies

How I build.

  1. 01 Useful before clever Automate the jobs I keep doing by hand. Keep the controls simple.
  2. 02 Private by design Keep household data and services private. Share the useful lessons.
  3. 03 Make it maintainable Check that backups restore, failures are visible and changes can be undone.

Things I’ve learned.

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01 Energy · 1 min read Making sense of home energy data 02 Systems · 1 min read Maintaining the software you build 03 Self-hosting · 1 min read When to self-host

Have something in mind?

Send me a question or a project idea. You’ll find my career history on LinkedIn.