The Setup I’ve been running Home Assistant at home for a while — smart lights, switches, air conditioner, the whole deal. Nothing too crazy. The usual story: you set up a few automations, feel like a genius, then forget they exist. But recently I gave my AI assistant (Lucas, built on OpenClaw + Claude) direct access to the Home Assistant API. The idea was simple: instead of opening an app, I just tell it what I want. ...
The Itch There was a desktop app I needed to understand. Not crack, not steal from — just understand. The official docs were vague, the API was undocumented, and the app did something interesting under the hood that I wanted to replicate. It was built with Tauri. Great framework, genuinely impressed by it. But from a reverse engineering perspective? It’s a bit of a pain. Here’s why, and here’s how I got through it anyway. ...
I Used to Be That Guy You know the type. Sees Bitcoin dump 20% — buys. Sees it pump 40% — buys more. Checks the price every 11 minutes while pretending to work. Ends up down 60% wondering what went wrong. That was me. Then I found the AHR999 indicator, and at least now my bad decisions are informed bad decisions. So What Is It? AHR999 is a Bitcoin market timing indicator created by a Chinese analyst who goes by — you guessed it — “ahr999.” The concept is simple: it tells you whether Bitcoin is cheap, fair, or expensive relative to two baselines: ...
The Vibe Shift There’s a specific type of person who got into Web3 in 2021. They had a profile picture of a bored monkey. They said “gm” unironically. They called everything “alpha.” They’re mostly gone now. Good. Now we can talk about the actual technology. I’ve been in this space long enough to have survived multiple cycles — the highs where you feel like a genius, the crashes where you feel like a cautionary tale, and the boring middle parts where the real building happens. This is a post about the boring middle parts. ...