Things I build, break, fix, and write about

27 April 2026
Network segmentation for vehicle data in Home Assistant

Modern cars are noisy little computers, and vehicle telemetry isolation only works if you treat them that way from the start. I put the car on its own VLAN, lock the firewall down, then let Home Assistant see only the data I actually want, nothing more.

26 April 2026
Isolating Android on a VLAN with firewall rules and split

I would not migrate an Android phone into my homelab blind. A clean Android homelab firewall DNS split, with VLAN isolation and hard DNS rules, keeps...

26 April 2026
Security Advisory – 24 Apr 2026

Daily security advisory summary for 24 Apr 2026

25 April 2026
Setting lifecycle tracking for kitchen appliances with Home

I stopped treating appliance failure as a surprise and built a Home Assistant replacement schedule around dates, run counts, and service history. It...

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