Avnit's Personal Blog | Avnit Bambah

Project Context Map

Posted on August 14, 2026

Context Map — avnit GitHub Repositories Master architecture & deployment context map across all cloned repositories at C:\Users\abamb\repos. For each repository this documents (1) the core application, (2) container /... [Read More]
Anycast Without the Proxy: Google’s Global External Passthrough Network Load Balancer

Global anycast routing for Layer 4 passthrough traffic — one IP worldwide, no proxy in the path

Posted on August 1, 2026

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GCP Finally Has a Kill Switch: Spend Cap Budgets Arrive in Preview

Budgets that actually stop spending — what shipped, the fine print, and where caps belong

Posted on July 29, 2026

Originally published on Medium. [Read More]
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GCP Cloud Run’s New Automated Failover Is a Direct Answer to a Real Outage

Cross-region failover for Cloud Run goes GA six days after the europe-west4-a outage

Posted on July 28, 2026

Originally published on Medium. [Read More]
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- google-cloud
- cloud-run
- sre
- medium
Stock Research & Trading Assistant

The architecture behind stock research, a trading assistant, and an AI-assisted workflow

Posted on July 23, 2026

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How This Site Is Built

The architecture behind avnit.asbblog.com — Jekyll, GitHub Pages, and an AI-assisted workflow

Posted on July 22, 2026

This site is intentionally boring in the best way: no servers, no database, no build pipeline to babysit. Here’s a tour of how it works, from a markdown file on... [Read More]
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Beta Calculator

Quantifying systematic risk and building hedging-aware trading strategies

Posted on July 22, 2026

Beta measures how much a stock moves when the market moves. This walkthrough computes beta from historical returns in Python, then uses it to classify risk and build hedging-aware portfolios.... [Read More]
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Build a Wi-Fi Controlled Tank With an ESP32

From bare ESP32 dev board to a browser-driven RC tank — motors, PWM, and a web UI over Wi-Fi

Posted on July 21, 2026

Originally published on Medium. [Read More]
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- esp32
- iot
- electronics
- medium
Signal RGB

Control SignalRGB lighting from Claude via MCP — with a wrapper that survives auto-updates

Posted on July 20, 2026

Tooling that lets Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or any Model Context Protocol client drive SignalRGB on Windows in natural language — “set my RGB to a calm blue”, “make the... [Read More]
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- projects
- powershell
- ai-agents
- windows
Claude New Repo

A scratch repo born from testing AI coding tools

Posted on July 16, 2026

This is exactly what it looks like: a scratch repository created while testing Claude Code’s repo-creation workflow. Every toolsmith needs a junk drawer, and this one exists so I don’t... [Read More]
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- projects
- learning
Agent Gateway + Agent Identity on Google Cloud

Routing and authenticating AI agent traffic with federated identity

Posted on July 14, 2026

A demo combining an agent gateway with agent identity concepts, showing how to route and authenticate AI agent traffic on Google Cloud — federated with Okta and Microsoft Entra ID... [Read More]
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- projects
- python
- gcp
- security
Homelab Self-Hosted Stack

Infrastructure-as-code and hardened runners for my Proxmox cluster

Posted on July 4, 2026

Infrastructure-as-code and hardened runners for my Proxmox homelab — every component is either reproducible Terraform or a security-reviewed script, so nothing gets curl | bash-ed straight onto the hypervisor. [Read More]
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- projects
- terraform
- homelab
- self-hosted
- proxmox
USB Uncensored LLM

A zero-install, air-gapped local AI environment that runs from a USB drive

Posted on June 28, 2026

USB-Uncensored-LLM is a fully air-gapped, zero-dependency local AI environment that runs directly from a hard drive or a portable USB/SSD. It ships with portable Python and isolated engine binaries so... [Read More]
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Xonora iOS

A native iPhone, Apple Watch, and CarPlay client for Music Assistant

Posted on June 7, 2026

Xonora is a high-performance native client for Music Assistant, the open-source media player, running on iPhone, Apple Watch, and CarPlay. This is my fork of hayupadhyaya/xonora-ios — I keep it... [Read More]
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- projects
- ios
- self-hosted
- homelab
Auto Identity Remove

Automated data-broker opt-outs on a monthly schedule

Posted on May 18, 2026

Auto Identity Remove is a cross-platform runner that scrubs your personal information off hundreds of people-search sites and data-broker databases automatically, once a month, so you don’t have to file... [Read More]
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Stock Trading Assistance (Argo)

A research-to-proposal-to-approval loop for stocks and options, paper trading by default

Posted on May 16, 2026

Argo is my personal stock research and trading assistant: a full research → propose → human-approved-execute loop for both stocks and multi-leg options strategies. It is a personal-use research tool,... [Read More]
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- projects
- python
- ai-agents
- google-cloud
- finance
PXE Booting Your Homelab with iVentoy, Unraid, and UniFi

Boot any OS over the network — no more USB sticks

Posted on May 7, 2026

Originally published on Medium. [Read More]
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- homelab
- unraid
- networking
- medium
OpenClaw Trading Agent

An AI trading agent built on the Claude Agent SDK

Posted on May 2, 2026

An AI trading agent for OpenClaw built with the Claude Agent SDK, covering the three pillars any trading automation needs: market data, portfolio management, and order execution. It’s part of... [Read More]
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Agent Identity

A policy agent with per-agent identity on Vertex AI — no service-account keys

Posted on April 23, 2026

An end-to-end reference implementation of a Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) agent that authenticates with a per-agent identity instead of a service-account key. I built it as a sample for... [Read More]
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Pico Ducky

Turning a Raspberry Pi Pico into a USB Rubber Ducky for authorized testing

Posted on April 11, 2026

Pico-ducky turns an inexpensive Raspberry Pi Pico into a USB Rubber Ducky style HID device — a keystroke-injection tool used in authorized penetration testing and security-awareness demonstrations. This is my... [Read More]
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- projects
- security
- python
- iot
Generative AI on Google Cloud

Google's sample notebooks and apps for Gemini on Vertex AI

Posted on April 11, 2026

This is my fork of GoogleCloudPlatform/generative-ai, Google’s official collection of notebooks, code samples, and sample apps for building generative AI workflows on Google Cloud with Gemini and Vertex AI. As... [Read More]
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AskHR

An HR question-answering assistant concept

Posted on April 6, 2026

AskHR is an early exploration of an HR question-answering assistant: the kind of tool that lets employees ask plain-language questions about policies, benefits, and processes and get grounded answers back... [Read More]
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n8n-pi

A preconfigured Raspberry Pi image that runs the n8n automation platform out of the box

Posted on April 3, 2026

My fork of TephlonDude/n8n-pi, a project that packages tools and images for building a Raspberry Pi preconfigured with n8n so it runs out of the box. I run n8n heavily... [Read More]
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Workforce Identity

Google Cloud Workforce Identity Federation without service account keys

Posted on March 2, 2026

Configuration and examples for Google Cloud Workforce Identity Federation — letting users from an external identity provider access Google Cloud resources without minting service account keys or duplicating identities into... [Read More]
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- projects
- google-cloud
- security
- iam
Python for Everyone — Homework

Assignments and projects from a Python fundamentals course

Posted on February 26, 2026

Homework assignments and course projects from a “Python for Everyone” class I took in early 2026. Even after years of working with Python professionally, going back through the fundamentals in... [Read More]
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- projects
- python
- learning
Mastering Ubuntu Server, Fourth Edition

Code and companion files from the Packt book, kept for reference

Posted on February 24, 2026

This is my fork of the official code repository for Mastering Ubuntu Server, Fourth Edition, published by Packt. It collects the configuration snippets, scripts, and companion files that accompany the... [Read More]
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- projects
- homelab
- learning
- self-hosted
Jim's Garage

A collection of homelab Docker Compose files and configs

Posted on February 17, 2026

Jim’s Garage is a well-known homelab resource: a collection of Docker Compose and config files that accompany James Turland’s YouTube videos on self-hosting, Kubernetes, networking, and infrastructure. This is my... [Read More]
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- projects
- homelab
- docker
- self-hosted
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and PyTorch

Notebooks working through the O'Reilly ML/DL book

Posted on February 2, 2026

A series of Jupyter notebooks that walk through the fundamentals of machine learning and deep learning in Python using Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, and Hugging Face libraries. This is my fork of... [Read More]
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Mastering Embedded Linux Development

Working through Packt's embedded Linux book — toolchains, bootloaders, kernels, and Yocto

Posted on January 2, 2026

My fork of the official code repository for Mastering Embedded Linux Development, Fourth Edition (Packt), which targets Linux 6.6 and the Yocto Project 5.0 (Scarthgap). I keep it in my... [Read More]
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- projects
- learning
- linux
- embedded
The 2026 Investment Thesis: Navigating a New Market Paradigm

How I'm thinking about markets, sectors, and risk going into 2026

Posted on December 26, 2025

Originally published on Medium. [Read More]
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- investing
- finance
- medium
Unlocking Secure Access to Google Cloud with Workload Identity Federation and Okta

Keyless authentication to GCP — federate Okta identities and retire service account keys

Posted on December 11, 2025

Originally published on Medium. [Read More]
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- google-cloud
- security
- identity
- medium
Build a Matter Device with ESP32 on Windows

Getting the ESP-Matter SDK working on a Windows machine, end to end

Posted on December 11, 2025

Originally published on Medium. [Read More]
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- esp32
- matter
- smart-home
- iot
- medium
OPNsense Config

Version-controlled configuration for my OPNsense router

Posted on November 30, 2025

Configuration for an OPNsense router deployment — keeping firewall rules, interface layouts, and network services for my homelab under version control instead of living only inside the router’s own backup... [Read More]
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- projects
- homelab
- networking
- security
pytube

My fork of the dependency-free Python YouTube downloader

Posted on November 24, 2025

pytube is a lightweight, dependency-free Python library and command-line utility for downloading YouTube videos. This is my fork of the project, kept in my account for homelab use and experimentation... [Read More]
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XCS224N Assignment 4

Building a neural machine translation model for Stanford's NLP with Deep Learning course

Posted on November 23, 2025

Coursework from Stanford’s XCS224N (Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning), assignment 4 — training a neural machine translation model. This is where the theory of sequence-to-sequence learning turns into a... [Read More]
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- projects
- python
- ai-agents
- learning
ADK Samples 2 — Agent Development Kit Experiments

Ready-to-use agents built on Google's Agent Development Kit

Posted on November 19, 2025

A working collection of ready-to-use agents built on Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK), the framework for building AI agents that range from simple conversational bots to complex multi-agent workflows. I... [Read More]
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Infra

Infrastructure-as-code for cloud and homelab

Posted on October 29, 2025

Infra is my Terraform/HCL repository for provisioning and managing infrastructure declaratively, so cloud and homelab resources are defined in version-controlled code rather than clicked together by hand. [Read More]
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Hackathon

Rapid prototyping under a deadline

Posted on October 2, 2025

Code from a hackathon build — rapid prototyping in Python under a deadline. There’s no README here, which is about what you’d expect from a repo born in a hackathon:... [Read More]
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- projects
- python
AI Agent Deploy AE

Production-ready GenAI agent templates for Google Cloud

Posted on September 12, 2025

A collection of production-ready Generative AI agent templates built for Google Cloud, designed to close the gap between a promising agent prototype and something you can actually run in production.... [Read More]
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AI Agent

A Python sandbox for testing AI agent patterns

Posted on September 8, 2025

A Python sandbox repo for testing AI agent patterns — the kind of scratch space you need when you work with agents daily and want somewhere to try ideas without... [Read More]
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Trustworthy ML Resource Hub

A community resource site for trustworthy machine learning, built with MkDocs

Posted on August 6, 2025

The Trustworthy ML Resource Hub is a documentation site that gathers course materials, research papers, tools, and community resources for trustworthy machine learning in one place. This is my fork... [Read More]
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- projects
- ai-agents
- web-dev
- learning
Gophish

An open-source phishing toolkit for security awareness programs

Posted on August 5, 2025

Gophish is an open-source phishing toolkit built for businesses and penetration testers to run authorized phishing simulations and security awareness training. This is my fork of the Evilginx-compatible build —... [Read More]
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Evilginx2

Reverse-proxy phishing framework for red-team engagements

Posted on August 5, 2025

Evilginx is a man-in-the-middle framework that demonstrates how modern phishing can capture login credentials along with session cookies, which is what lets an attacker bypass two-factor authentication. This is my... [Read More]
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General Handouts

LaTeX source for course handouts, built reproducibly with latexmk

Posted on August 4, 2025

My fork of scpd-proed/General_Handouts, a repository of LaTeX source for compiling course handouts (not the assignment handouts themselves). I kept it in my account while taking the associated coursework. [Read More]
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- projects
- learning
- latex
Pop Kustomize

End-to-end Google Cloud CI/CD for GKE, demoed with Kustomize overlays

Posted on July 30, 2025

My fork of vszal/pop-kustomize, a tutorial repo that demonstrates end-to-end CI/CD for GKE using Google Cloud’s own tooling: Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, and Google Cloud Deploy. The demo app is... [Read More]
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My Chat Agent

An AI chat agent on Cloudflare Workers, built from the agents starter kit

Posted on July 30, 2025

A TypeScript chat agent running on Cloudflare’s Agent platform, built from Cloudflare’s agents-starter template. I used it to explore what serverless, edge-deployed AI agents look like in practice. [Read More]
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- projects
- typescript
- ai-agents
- web-dev
Agents Starter

Cloudflare's starter template for building AI chat agents on Workers

Posted on July 30, 2025

Agents Starter is Cloudflare’s template for building AI chat agents on Workers, powered by their Agents SDK. It ships a working chat agent with streaming responses, tool use, scheduling, and... [Read More]
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ASB Gear Storefront

A zero-dependency e-commerce site with a deliberately payment-free checkout

Posted on July 23, 2025

ASB Gear is the hardware product line of ASB Solutions Group Inc., and this repo is its pre-launch storefront — a complete product-showcase site with a working cart and checkout,... [Read More]
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- projects
- web-dev
- e-commerce
- security
MediaStack

A full Docker media stack with VPN-secured traffic and MFA remote access

Posted on July 1, 2025

MediaStack is a complete Docker Compose setup for building a self-hosted media platform — Jellyfin or Plex alongside the full *ARR automation suite — with secure outbound traffic and multifactor... [Read More]
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- projects
- docker
- self-hosted
- homelab
ESP-IDF

Espressif's official IoT development framework

Posted on June 28, 2025

ESP-IDF is Espressif’s official development framework for its SoCs, the toolchain and libraries you use to build firmware for ESP32-family chips on Windows, Linux, and macOS. This is my fork... [Read More]
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- projects
- esp32
- iot
- homelab
Developing IoT Projects with ESP32, 2nd Edition

Packt's ESP32 book code — sensors to cloud, with a detour into tinyML

Posted on June 25, 2025

My fork of the official code repository for Developing IoT Projects with ESP32, 2nd Edition by Vedat Ozan Oner (Packt). ESP32 boards are the workhorses of my home automation experiments,... [Read More]
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- projects
- esp32
- iot
- learning
GEOPM

Fine-grained power monitoring and control for Linux systems

Posted on June 23, 2025

My fork of geopm/geopm, the Global Extensible Open Power Manager — an open-source framework for low-latency batch access to power metrics and control knobs on Linux. I keep it in... [Read More]
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- projects
- linux
- power-management
- hpc
WiZ Lights MCP Server

Letting an LLM control the smart lights via Model Context Protocol

Posted on June 5, 2025

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets large language models control WiZ smart lights. This is my fork of jeettrivedi/wizlights-mcp-server, kept in my account for use in my own... [Read More]
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- projects
- python
- iot
- ai-agents
- self-hosted
ADK Samples

Sample security agents built on Google's Agent Development Kit

Posted on May 27, 2025

ADK Samples is a collection of ready-to-use agents built on Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK). My fork focuses on the security-oriented samples — fact-checking LLM output, retrieval-augmented generation, and cloud-security... [Read More]
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PVE-MooseFS

A MooseFS storage plugin for Proxmox VE

Posted on May 21, 2025

pve-moosefs is a storage plugin that adds native support for MooseFS as a backend in Proxmox VE, so a distributed MooseFS cluster can host VM and container disks directly. This... [Read More]
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- projects
- homelab
- self-hosted
- storage
XCS224N Handouts

Lecture notes and readings for Stanford's NLP with deep learning course

Posted on April 19, 2025

XCS224N Handouts collects the lecture notes and suggested readings for XCS224N, Stanford’s professional version of CS224N, Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning. This is my fork of the handouts repository,... [Read More]
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Ansible for DevOps

Jeff Geerling's book examples — my go-to reference for automation patterns

Posted on March 28, 2025

My fork of geerlingguy/ansible-for-devops, the example repository for Jeff Geerling’s book Ansible for DevOps. Ansible is my preferred tool for keeping homelab changes idempotent and scriptable, and this repo is... [Read More]
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- projects
- ansible
- devops
- learning
- homelab
WLED

Feature-rich ESP32 firmware for addressable LEDs

Posted on March 17, 2025

My fork of WLED, the wildly popular open-source firmware for driving addressable LEDs — WS2812B, SK6812, APA102 and many more — from an ESP32 over WiFi. Originally created by Aircoookie... [Read More]
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- projects
- esp32
- iot
- homelab
Arrstack

Terraform for Proxmox VMs, plus assorted automation scripts

Posted on March 12, 2025

A working repo of homelab automation, centered on Terraform configuration that deploys virtual machines on my Proxmox server. Despite the name, it grew into a small grab-bag of infrastructure and... [Read More]
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- projects
- terraform
- homelab
- proxmox
SCC IaC Scanning

Sample infrastructure-as-code violations for Google Security Command Center

Posted on March 4, 2025

SCC IaC Scanning is a collection of sample Infrastructure-as-Code files crafted to trigger the security violations that Google Security Command Center’s IaC Validation service detects. This is my fork of... [Read More]
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Homelab Docs

Christian Lempa's homelab notes, setups, and configurations

Posted on March 3, 2025

This is my fork of Christian Lempa’s homelab documentation — a collection of notes, setups, and configuration files covering infrastructure, applications, and networking. Christian publishes it as a free companion... [Read More]
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- projects
- homelab
- self-hosted
- learning
Cheat Sheets

A homelab-focused knowledge base of commands and snippets

Posted on March 3, 2025

Cheat Sheets is a personal knowledge base of code snippets, technical documentation, and command references for a wide range of tools and technologies. This is my fork of Christian Lempa’s... [Read More]
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- projects
- homelab
- self-hosted
- learning
Terraform Docs Samples

The Terraform samples behind cloud.google.com's how-to guides

Posted on February 24, 2025

My fork of terraform-google-modules/terraform-docs-samples, the repository of Terraform samples intended for inclusion in Google Cloud’s documentation. As a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud who lives in Terraform and GCP security... [Read More]
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Arduino4Everyone

Microcontroller experiments with supporting Python code

Posted on February 13, 2025

Arduino experiments and teaching material — microcontroller basics with supporting Python code on the computer side of the serial cable. [Read More]
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- projects
- python
- iot
- learning
webretro

RetroArch in the browser — my fork of the WebAssembly port

Posted on February 12, 2025

webretro is RetroArch ported to WebAssembly with emscripten — a full retro-gaming frontend that runs entirely in the browser. This is my fork of BinBashBanana/webretro, kept in my account so... [Read More]
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- projects
- self-hosted
- gaming
- web-dev
Docker Templates for Unraid

Container templates for running services on Unraid

Posted on February 10, 2025

Docker-Templates-Unraid is a set of Unraid Docker templates — the XML definitions that let Unraid’s Community Applications plugin present containers as installable apps with a friendly configuration form. This is... [Read More]
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- projects
- docker
- self-hosted
- homelab
GeminiCoder

Generate small apps from a single prompt with the Gemini API

Posted on January 2, 2025

GeminiCoder (upstream: InstantCoder) is a small web app that generates working single-prompt apps using the Gemini API. This is my fork of osanseviero/InstantCoder, which is itself based on Nutlope’s llamacoder.... [Read More]
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OpenWrt

A Linux OS for embedded networking devices

Posted on January 1, 2025

OpenWrt is a Linux operating system for embedded devices, most famously home routers, that replaces vendor firmware with a fully writable filesystem and real package management. This is my fork... [Read More]
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Swot

JetBrains' registry of academic email domains, used to automate student-license approvals

Posted on December 26, 2024

My fork of JetBrains/swot, the repository JetBrains uses to grant free tool licenses to students and teachers worldwide. It identifies email addresses and domains that belong to colleges and universities,... [Read More]
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Pimox 7

Proxmox VE 7 ported to the Raspberry Pi

Posted on December 3, 2024

My fork of pimox/pimox7, a port of Proxmox VE 7 to the Raspberry Pi. Pimox lets you build a Proxmox cluster out of Raspberry Pis — or a hybrid cluster... [Read More]
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- projects
- homelab
- proxmox
- raspberry-pi
Financial App

Pulling market data with yfinance and charting it in Python

Posted on October 24, 2024

A small Python project for pulling financial market data and charting it. It is a hands-on experiment in working with stock data programmatically rather than a polished application. [Read More]
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- projects
- python
- learning
Web Scraping with Python

Code samples from the O'Reilly book, kept for study

Posted on October 20, 2024

This is my fork of Ryan Mitchell’s python-scraping — the companion code samples for the O’Reilly book Web Scraping with Python (2nd Edition). I keep it in my account as... [Read More]
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- projects
- python
- learning
VPC-SC Demo Terraform

Terraform to stand up a GCP VPC Service Controls demo

Posted on October 16, 2024

VPC-SC Demo Terraform provisions a Google Cloud VPC Service Controls demonstration environment from code, so you can see service perimeters protecting resources without clicking through the console. This is my... [Read More]
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Python for Everyone

A hands-on Python course I teach — from first variables to financial analytics

Posted on September 13, 2024

Python for Everyone is the full curriculum for a Python course I teach, aimed at beginners and intermediate learners. It takes students from their first variable all the way to... [Read More]
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- projects
- python
- teaching
- data-science
- finance
Gemini POC

Terraform scaffolding for a Gemini proof of concept on Google Cloud

Posted on August 12, 2024

Infrastructure-as-code for a proof of concept built around Google’s Gemini models on Google Cloud. The repo is written in HCL, so the substance is Terraform: standing up the GCP resources... [Read More]
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- projects
- terraform
- google-cloud
- ai
Boilerplates

Christian Lempa's template collection, kept close for homelab use

Posted on July 10, 2024

My fork of ChristianLempa/boilerplates, a well-known template collection for IT pros and homelab enthusiasts. Christian Lempa creates educational tech content on YouTube, and this repo is his companion library of... [Read More]
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- projects
- homelab
- docker
- self-hosted
ESP32-A2DP

Bluetooth audio on a microcontroller — my fork of the ESP32 A2DP library

Posted on May 25, 2024

ESP32-A2DP is a simple Arduino library for Bluetooth A2DP audio on the ESP32 — build your own Bluetooth speaker (sink) or music sender (source) in a few dozen lines. This... [Read More]
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- projects
- esp32
- iot
- audio
ESPHome Room Sensors

ESPHome configs from the Home Automator room-sensor build series

Posted on April 22, 2024

This is my fork of the ESPHome configuration files from the Home Automator YouTube channel’s “let’s build a room sensor” series. It collects the basic device setup and the step-by-step... [Read More]
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- projects
- esp32
- iot
- homelab
- self-hosted
HACS

The Home Assistant Community Store, for custom integrations

Posted on February 16, 2024

HACS — the Home Assistant Community Store — is an integration that gives you a UI for discovering, downloading, tracking, and updating custom elements for Home Assistant. This is my... [Read More]
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Homepage — Self-Hosted Homelab Dashboard

My customized fork of gethomepage/homepage, deployed with Docker on Proxmox

Posted on January 31, 2024

This is my personalized fork of gethomepage/homepage — the popular fully static, fast, highly customizable application dashboard — adapted to be the front door of my homelab at homepage2.asbblog.com. [Read More]
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- projects
- homelab
- docker
- javascript
- self-hosted
Home Assistant Frontend

The web UI for the Home Assistant platform

Posted on January 31, 2024

This is the official web frontend for Home Assistant, the open-source home-automation platform, the dashboard and UI you interact with in the browser. This is my fork of home-assistant/frontend, kept... [Read More]
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Flame

A self-hosted startpage with built-in editors, search, and Docker auto-discovery

Posted on January 31, 2024

My fork of pawelmalak/flame, a self-hosted startpage for your server, design-inspired by SUI. With a homelab running dozens of services across multiple hosts, a good startpage is not a luxury... [Read More]
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- projects
- self-hosted
- docker
- homelab
Python Flask Ext API Example

OAuth2 against the Airthings API from a small Flask app

Posted on January 29, 2024

My fork of Airthings/python-flask-ext-api-example, Airthings’ official sample showing how to access their air-quality sensor API from a simple Flask web app using the requests-oauthlib library. I keep it in my... [Read More]
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- projects
- python
- iot
- api
Project Keyword Spotter

On-device keyphrase detection on a Coral Edge TPU — my fork of Google's demo

Posted on January 29, 2024

A keyphrase detector (keyword spotter) that runs entirely on-device using a Google Coral Edge TPU. This is my fork of google-coral/project-keyword-spotter, the Google Research demo, kept in my account for... [Read More]
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- projects
- ai
- edge-computing
- iot
IT Tools

A self-hosted collection of handy online utilities for developers

Posted on January 24, 2024

IT Tools is a collection of handy web-based utilities for developers and IT people — token generators, encoders, converters, formatters, and dozens more — wrapped in a clean, fast UI.... [Read More]
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- projects
- self-hosted
- web-dev
- docker
- homelab
CasaOS Scripts

BigBearTechWorld's community scripts for CasaOS and self-hosting

Posted on January 8, 2024

This is my fork of BigBearTechWorld’s big-bear-scripts, a collection of helper scripts created for the BigBearTechWorld YouTube channel and community, largely oriented around CasaOS and self-hosted apps. I keep it... [Read More]
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- projects
- self-hosted
- homelab
- docker
Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, 4E

Companion repo for Packt's Kali Linux penetration testing book

Posted on November 24, 2023

My fork of the official companion repository for Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, 4th Edition, published by Packt. Security is my professional specialty — I work on cloud... [Read More]
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Create HTML5 Boilerplate

One-command scaffolding for an HTML5 Boilerplate site

Posted on November 24, 2023

Create HTML5 Boilerplate is an npx quick-start that scaffolds a new site from the HTML5 Boilerplate template and gets you running with a single command. This is my fork of... [Read More]
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IPTV Player Sample

Watch thousands of publicly available IPTV channels in the browser

Posted on November 23, 2023

My fork of Mravuri96/IPTV-Player, a browser-based player for watching 8000+ publicly available IPTV channels. The upstream project wraps freely available channel playlists in a clean web interface, so streaming works... [Read More]
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- projects
- self-hosted
- media
- web-dev
Google Cloud AI Demos

My fork of the official Vertex AI demo apps

Posted on August 22, 2023

Frontend and backend code for Google Cloud’s “AI Demos” — visual, interactive examples of what the platform’s AI offerings can do. This is my fork of the official GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-ai-demos repo,... [Read More]
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- projects
- google-cloud
- ai
- web-dev
WordPress on Google Cloud Run

Serverless WordPress — containerized, stateless, and deployed with two gcloud commands

Posted on August 12, 2023

This repo (my fork of peterkracik/wp-gcloud-run) runs WordPress on Google Cloud Run — taking the world’s most stateful CMS and making it behave in a serverless container platform. [Read More]
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- projects
- google-cloud
- docker
- serverless
- web-dev
Terraform Workload Identity Federation

Deploying Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation with Okta as the OIDC provider

Posted on November 22, 2022

This Terraform module deploys a Google Cloud Workload Identity Pool, Provider, and Service Account that an external identity can impersonate — with Okta as the OIDC provider in the reference... [Read More]
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FastAPI

The modern, high-performance Python web framework

Posted on November 21, 2022

FastAPI is a modern, high-performance Python web framework for building APIs, built on standard Python type hints. This is my fork of fastapi/fastapi, kept in my account for reference —... [Read More]
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- python
- web-dev
- learning
Python Collections Budget

Learning Python collections by analyzing spending data

Posted on November 18, 2022

Python Collections Budget is a guided exercise that processes real spending data into different Python collection types, then uses them to graph spending categories and budget outcomes. This is my... [Read More]
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- python
- learning
Angular Demo Repo

A scratch space for Angular experiments

Posted on May 11, 2022

A demo repository from 2022 for trying out Angular front-end development. The README is a single title line, which tells you what kind of repo this is: a scratch space,... [Read More]
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- projects
- web-dev
JFrog SwampUp Demo — CI/CD for GKE

Google Cloud Deploy + Cloud Build + JFrog Artifactory and Xray, end to end

Posted on May 9, 2022

A demo I put together for JFrog SwampUp 2022: a complete CI/CD pipeline for Google Kubernetes Engine that combines Google Cloud tooling with JFrog’s artifact management and security scanning. It’s... [Read More]
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- projects
- google-cloud
- ci-cd
- kubernetes
- devops
Trading TDA

A TD Ameritrade trading pipeline with BigQuery analytics and ARIMA forecasting

Posted on December 29, 2021

Trading TDA is an early ASB Solutions Group trading application built against the TD Ameritrade API — a predecessor of my current IBKR/Alpaca automation stack. It pulls portfolio and market... [Read More]
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- projects
- python
- trading
- google-cloud
- finance
Terraform Google Influx

Terraform modules for running the TICK stack on Google Cloud

Posted on September 22, 2021

My fork of influxdata/terraform-google-influx, a set of reusable Terraform modules for running the TICK stack — Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor — on Google Cloud. [Read More]
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Node.js Experiments

Early server-side JavaScript scratch work

Posted on March 7, 2020

A scratch repo of server-side JavaScript experiments with Node.js, dating back to early 2020. It has a one-line README and no pretensions — this was a workbench for trying out... [Read More]
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User Security

A Spring Boot user microservice with OAuth 2 and Spring Security

Posted on February 14, 2020

User Security is a Spring Boot boilerplate for a user microservice, built around Spring Security and OAuth 2 — a friendly starting point for the authentication and authorization layer that... [Read More]
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- projects
- java
- security
reactjsWebs

A sample website built with React and Bootstrap

Posted on September 2, 2019

reactjsWebs is a sample website I built with React and Bootstrap — a hands-on exercise in component-based UI with responsive styling. It’s a learning project from 2019 rather than a... [Read More]
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ReactJS Webpage

Practicing front-end development with React

Posted on September 1, 2019

ReactJS Webpage is a small webpage built with React, a place to practice modern JavaScript component-based front-end development. It’s an early, hands-on repo rather than a finished product. [Read More]
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- projects
- web-dev
- javascript
- learning
AWS EC2 Instance Setup Commands

Base package installation for an Amazon Linux 2 instance

Posted on April 1, 2019

A quick reference for bootstrapping a fresh Amazon Linux 2 instance on EC2. The commands below install the base modules I use on a new instance: Java, Python, pip, the... [Read More]
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- aws
- linux
- devops
Jenkins Course

Course material from the Udemy Jenkins CI/CD training — pipelines and Docker

Posted on March 25, 2019

My fork of wardviaene/jenkins-course, the resource repository for the Udemy course Learn DevOps: CI/CD with Jenkins using Pipelines and Docker. I forked it in 2019 while working through the course,... [Read More]
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- projects
- devops
- docker
- learning
Sample CodeStar

An AWS CodeStar Java Spring web service

Posted on June 9, 2018

A Java Spring web service scaffolded by AWS CodeStar back in 2018 — a snapshot of what “click-to-provision CI/CD” looked like before it became table stakes. [Read More]
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- projects
- java
- aws
- ci-cd
Leadership

Notes on leaders, mis-leaders, and followers

Posted on April 14, 2018

Notes on what separates real leaders from mis-leaders: a value-based definition of leadership, Kellerman’s seven types of bad leadership, the role of character, and the ten virtues of an outstanding... [Read More]
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- leadership
- ethics
Kickstarter Data Analysis

Grouping, reporting, and 2D/3D plotting with Kaggle data

Posted on April 4, 2018

A sample data analysis project using the Kickstarter dataset from Kaggle. The goal is to practice grouping a dataset, creating summary reports, and plotting the results in 2D and 3D... [Read More]
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Blockchain

Distributed record keeping for innovation and governance

Posted on April 1, 2018

Blockchain is an elegantly distributed cryptographic solution for the transformation of record keeping across any industry. It satisfies two needs that help industries stay ahead: the need for innovation and... [Read More]
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ContractWork (Scratch Repo)

A Jupyter notebook repo with a copy-paste accident for a name

Posted on March 26, 2018

A Jupyter Notebook repo from 2018 whose name — https---github.com-avnit-ContractWork — is what happens when a full URL gets pasted into the “repository name” field. Everyone who has used GitHub... [Read More]
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- projects
- learning
Chef Certification Study Guides

Study notes for the Basic Chef Fluency and Local Cookbook Development exams

Posted on February 9, 2018

This is my fork of a community set of study guides for Chef certification, turning one engineer’s exam-prep notes into shareable guides for others working toward the same credentials. I... [Read More]
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- learning
- devops
ContractWork

Python Finance 101 class material — a stock beta calculator

Posted on January 17, 2018

ContractWork is class material from a Python Finance 101 exercise — a notebook that builds a stock beta calculator while learning machine learning with Python 3. It’s an early hands-on... [Read More]
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- python
- learning
GLSC

An early project repository

Posted on March 29, 2016

GLSC is one of my older repositories, dating back to early 2016. There’s no README or description on it, so rather than invent a backstory I’ll keep this honest: it’s... [Read More]
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- projects
- learning
Pricing Console

An option price calculator in C# — binomial and Black-Scholes models

Posted on March 22, 2016

A C# console application that prices American and European options. Per the README, it implements both binomial and Black-Scholes pricing models and maintains put-call parity — the no-arbitrage relationship that... [Read More]
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- csharp
- finance
Option Pricing

An early web-based option price calculator

Posted on February 19, 2016

An option price calculator from 2016 — an early web project implementing options pricing with a browser front end, from back when my interest in trading tooling was just getting... [Read More]
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- projects
- web-dev
- trading
- learning
Sugar Trading Project (FINC 621)

A quantitative sugar-vs-stocks trading strategy in R from grad school

Posted on February 6, 2016

A quantitative trading project from my FINC 621 graduate finance course, built in R with teammates Evan, Hetal, and Preedee as team “Sugar Quant 40”. The thesis: sugar prices and... [Read More]
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- r
- finance
- quant-trading
SwiftCalc

An early iOS calculator experiment

Posted on May 13, 2015

SwiftCalc is an early iOS calculator app I built as a personal experiment. The repo is a small, from-scratch project — described simply as an “iOS calculator for Mtg” with... [Read More]
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- projects
- learning
StockSelector

Picking securities on the principle of the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Posted on April 1, 2015

StockSelector is an early project that explores security selection through the lens of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) — the idea that you can only beat the market on the... [Read More]
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- projects
- groovy
- learning
EGroovy

An early experimental repository

Posted on July 11, 2014

EGroovy is one of my oldest repositories, from mid-2014. It has no real project description of its own, and its contents actually mirror the README of Homebrew, the macOS package... [Read More]
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- projects
- learning
Advanced Groovy

Ken Kousen's example code from his NFJS 'Advanced Groovy: Tips and Tricks' talk

Posted on July 11, 2014

My fork of kousen/AdvancedGroovy, the example code from Ken Kousen’s No Fluff Just Stuff talk “Advanced Groovy: Tips and Tricks”. Kousen is the author of Making Java Groovy, and his... [Read More]
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- projects
- groovy
- learning
Mojo

Mojolicious — the Perl real-time web framework

Posted on September 30, 2013

My fork of mojolicious/mojo — Mojolicious, the real-time web framework that gave Perl a genuinely modern web story. Forked back in 2013, when I was writing Perl for the web,... [Read More]
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- projects
- perl
- web-dev
Griffon Eclipse Support Plugin

Keeping Eclipse classpaths in sync for Griffon apps — a fork from my Groovy days

Posted on July 23, 2013

A plugin for the Griffon framework (the Groovy-based desktop application framework) that keeps Eclipse project files up to date. This is my fork of griffon-legacy/griffon-eclipse-support-plugin, from my JVM/Groovy era in... [Read More]
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- projects
- groovy
- java
- dev-tools
Groovy

A personal news dashboard that pulls my daily reads into one page

Posted on April 14, 2013

Groovy is an early personal project to build my own daily news dashboard — one page that pulls together the handful of things I actually read on the train each... [Read More]
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- projects
- javascript
- web-dev
- learning
nvm — Node Version Manager

Manage multiple active Node.js versions from the shell

Posted on January 9, 2013

nvm is a version manager for Node.js — a simple POSIX-compliant bash script that lets you install and switch between multiple Node versions per user, invoked per shell. This is... [Read More]
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HTML5 Boilerplate

A professional front-end template for fast, robust web apps

Posted on December 5, 2012

HTML5 Boilerplate is a professional front-end template for building fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites, the product of over a decade of iterative community development. This is my... [Read More]
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Salespage

A Groovy web app — my oldest repo on GitHub

Posted on November 11, 2012

A sales page web application built with Groovy, and the oldest repo in my GitHub account — it dates back to November 2012. The README consists entirely of a large... [Read More]
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- projects
- groovy
- web-dev
Making Java Groovy

Source code from Ken Kousen's Manning book

Posted on November 11, 2012

My fork of kousen/Making-Java-Groovy, the companion source code for Ken Kousen’s Manning book of the same name. Forked in 2012 while working through the book — one of the oldest... [Read More]
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- projects
- groovy
- java
- learning
Groovy Core

A fork of the Groovy language repo, from before it moved to Apache

Posted on November 11, 2012

My 2012 fork of groovy/groovy-core — the Git repository for the Groovy programming language itself, from the Codehaus era. I forked it back when I was working heavily in the... [Read More]
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- projects
- groovy
- java
- open-source

Project Context Map

Anycast Without the Proxy: Google’s Global External Passthrough Network Load Balancer

Global anycast routing for Layer 4 passthrough traffic — one IP worldwide, no proxy in the path

GCP Finally Has a Kill Switch: Spend Cap Budgets Arrive in Preview

Budgets that actually stop spending — what shipped, the fine print, and where caps belong

GCP Cloud Run’s New Automated Failover Is a Direct Answer to a Real Outage

Cross-region failover for Cloud Run goes GA six days after the europe-west4-a outage

Stock Research & Trading Assistant

The architecture behind stock research, a trading assistant, and an AI-assisted workflow

How This Site Is Built

The architecture behind avnit.asbblog.com — Jekyll, GitHub Pages, and an AI-assisted workflow

Beta Calculator

Quantifying systematic risk and building hedging-aware trading strategies

Build a Wi-Fi Controlled Tank With an ESP32

From bare ESP32 dev board to a browser-driven RC tank — motors, PWM, and a web UI over Wi-Fi

Signal RGB

Control SignalRGB lighting from Claude via MCP — with a wrapper that survives auto-updates

Claude New Repo

A scratch repo born from testing AI coding tools

Agent Gateway + Agent Identity on Google Cloud

Routing and authenticating AI agent traffic with federated identity

Homelab Self-Hosted Stack

Infrastructure-as-code and hardened runners for my Proxmox cluster

USB Uncensored LLM

A zero-install, air-gapped local AI environment that runs from a USB drive

Xonora iOS

A native iPhone, Apple Watch, and CarPlay client for Music Assistant

Auto Identity Remove

Automated data-broker opt-outs on a monthly schedule

Stock Trading Assistance (Argo)

A research-to-proposal-to-approval loop for stocks and options, paper trading by default

PXE Booting Your Homelab with iVentoy, Unraid, and UniFi

Boot any OS over the network — no more USB sticks

OpenClaw Trading Agent

An AI trading agent built on the Claude Agent SDK

Agent Identity

A policy agent with per-agent identity on Vertex AI — no service-account keys

Pico Ducky

Turning a Raspberry Pi Pico into a USB Rubber Ducky for authorized testing

Generative AI on Google Cloud

Google's sample notebooks and apps for Gemini on Vertex AI

AskHR

An HR question-answering assistant concept

n8n-pi

A preconfigured Raspberry Pi image that runs the n8n automation platform out of the box

Workforce Identity

Google Cloud Workforce Identity Federation without service account keys

Python for Everyone — Homework

Assignments and projects from a Python fundamentals course

Mastering Ubuntu Server, Fourth Edition

Code and companion files from the Packt book, kept for reference

Jim's Garage

A collection of homelab Docker Compose files and configs

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and PyTorch

Notebooks working through the O'Reilly ML/DL book

Mastering Embedded Linux Development

Working through Packt's embedded Linux book — toolchains, bootloaders, kernels, and Yocto

The 2026 Investment Thesis: Navigating a New Market Paradigm

How I'm thinking about markets, sectors, and risk going into 2026

Unlocking Secure Access to Google Cloud with Workload Identity Federation and Okta

Keyless authentication to GCP — federate Okta identities and retire service account keys

Build a Matter Device with ESP32 on Windows

Getting the ESP-Matter SDK working on a Windows machine, end to end

OPNsense Config

Version-controlled configuration for my OPNsense router

pytube

My fork of the dependency-free Python YouTube downloader

XCS224N Assignment 4

Building a neural machine translation model for Stanford's NLP with Deep Learning course

ADK Samples 2 — Agent Development Kit Experiments

Ready-to-use agents built on Google's Agent Development Kit

Infra

Infrastructure-as-code for cloud and homelab

Hackathon

Rapid prototyping under a deadline

AI Agent Deploy AE

Production-ready GenAI agent templates for Google Cloud

AI Agent

A Python sandbox for testing AI agent patterns

Trustworthy ML Resource Hub