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PantryPal: Tackling the $218 Billion Food Waste Problem
Our 9th Android app helps households track pantry inventory and expiration dates to reduce food waste. Here's why we built it and how it works.
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Project updates, how-to guides, and lessons learned
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DoseLog: A Medication Tracker That Doesn't Sell Your Health Data
Our 10th Android app tracks medications, vitamins, and supplements with multi-profile support, adherence charts, and PDF exports — all without touching the internet.
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11 Apps, One Week: What Building a Privacy-First Portfolio Taught Us
From WiFi Share to CapitolLens — lessons from shipping 11 Android apps in under a week with AI-assisted development, local-first architecture, and zero backend costs.
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CapitolLens: Tracking Congress Without the Noise
Our 11th Android app pulls real-time bill, member, and vote data from Congress.gov — no ads, no political bias, just raw legislative data on your phone.
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Cloudflare Tunnel vs Reverse Proxy: Which Should You Use for Your Homelab?
A practical comparison of Cloudflare Tunnel and traditional reverse proxies (NGINX, Traefik, Caddy) for exposing homelab services to the internet.
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Building Privacy-First Android Apps with React Native
How to build Android apps that collect zero user data — no analytics, no accounts, no network requests. Architecture patterns from shipping 11 apps.
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Three Apps Ready for the Play Store
HomeKeep, dBLog, and SaleFinder — built from scratch to signed APKs in one week using Expo and React Native.
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Practical Home Assistant Automation Patterns
Real automation examples from our homelab: vacation security, smart reminders, and accessibility-aware notifications.
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Self-Hosted Git with Gitea on Unraid
Why we moved from GitHub to a self-hosted Gitea instance, and how to set it up on Unraid with Docker.
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5 Home Assistant Blueprints for Common Automations
Reusable automation blueprints for door alerts, calendar reminders, presence lighting, silent notifications, and vacation mode.
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Running 4 Claude Code Workers in a Single Docker Container
How we set up a multi-worker AI development system using Claude Code CLI sessions with project locking, shared state, and coordinated output.
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Running Ollama on Unraid for Local AI Inference
Set up local LLM inference on your Unraid server with Ollama. CPU-only setup, model selection, API usage, and integration with development tools.
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Adding V100 GPUs to an Unraid Server for LLM Inference
Planning guide for installing NVIDIA V100 PCIe 32GB GPUs in a Dell R7525 homelab server. Model sizing, power budgets, and revenue potential.
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Building 8 Android Apps in 4 Days with AI-Assisted Development
How we shipped 19,000+ lines of TypeScript across 8 Play Store-ready Android apps using Claude Code, Expo, and a systematic build pipeline.
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Building a Pet Health Tracker: The $16B Pet Tech Market
How we built PetLog — a pet medication, vaccination, and vet visit tracker for Android. Design decisions, species-specific challenges, and why pet tech is a growing market.
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Welcome to the GriswoldLabs Blog
Introducing the blog section - a place to document projects, share learnings, and track progress.
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Fixing UniFi Protect Integration in Home Assistant
Troubleshooting the setup_error and getting cameras working in HA.