Calvin Bui

I installed wall-mounted shelves all around my garage to make room for a longer car.

I found a way to sideload Android apps directly onto the infotainment system in my Zeekr 7X, even though the car does not include the Google…

I wrote an AI skill to review Australian novated lease quotes for electric vehicles.

I insulated and sealed my single-car garage door to keep the afternoon heat out of the garage where my gear lives.

After upgrading my home network to 10 gigabit, I turned my attention to the cabling.

In September 2025, NBN started offering 2000 Mbps plans in Australia.

How I installed a 50 kWh battery for cheap on Black Friday with Government discounts and synced it with Home Assistant.

I upgraded only my CPU and motherboard while keeping everything else the same.

This post is the follow-up to my previous post, where I covered the hardware build and the decisions behind each part, and it focuses on the…

I built a new home server/lab a few months back to replace my previous 7 year old server.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provide a very generous free tier that is capable of running a highly available Kubernetes cluster.

I've installed a Shelly smart relay for every possible light switch in my home over the past three and a half years.

For a while now, I've been taking vitamins and supplements to support my energy, focus and overall well-being.

Three weeks ago, I discovered that spammers had started using my email domain to send thousands of spam messages.

In Part 1, I worked on improving the lawn.

In Part 1, I was working on improving the state of then lawn.

This is the first in a two-part post on my gardening adventure.

I added two SVS SB-3000 subwoofers to my living room entertainment area.

Updating my soldering tools.

Creating better notifications from Overseerr to Slack/Mattermost using the webhooks.

Updates about my 12.76 kW solar system installed at the end of July 2022.

Sharing my playthrough of Pikmin 4 on the Nintendo Switch.

My baby book recommendations for new and existing parents.

Building a mmWave presence detector from off-the-shelf components.

This month marks 10 years since the very first post on this blog.

Five years ago, I wrote about the Tech Inside My 2018 Volkswagen Golf R.

I've updated a lot of my older posts with new information.

Continuing from my previous post.

Last year, I bought a bike and began cycling near my home around Sydney Olympic Park.

Documenting how I succeeded in 3D printing with TPE/TPU on my Prusa i3 MK3S.

Breathing life back into my Kobo Clara HD eBook Reader from 2018.

Sharing my note-taking migration from Joplin to Obsidian and how I use it everyday.

How to connect the Breville BodyZone Plus Connect electric blanket to Home Assistant.

Sharing my living room setup which includes my television, speakers, gaming and karaoke.

How to migrate between two Fastmail accounts without any downtime when using a custom domain.

Sharing my worm farm journey over the past couple of weeks.

I want to share how I modded The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on my Nintendo Switch as guides on the internet were targetted at …

I grew tired of updating my current resume and made a new one with LaTeX.

I recently flew Business Class round-the-world and have some tips to share.

I modified the IKEA Bekant sit/stand desk to add memory positions and remote control.

I've been working on some new features and changes for this blog.

Not that there's anything of value to steal.

I had Laser Eye surgery last year and wanted to share my experience in a casual post.

I got a 12.76 kW solar system installed at the end of July 2022.

I created dashboards in Home Assistant and put them on Android tablets around the house.

I bought a Juniper EX3300-48P switch at the beginning of the year.

Last year, my wife and I purchased our first home together.

Modifying and installing homebrew on a Nintendo Switch OLED.

I've started running my own self-hosted Git server and CI/CD and wanted to share my use cases for it after avoiding both products for so…

This tool provides an API alongside the native Kubernetes deployment controller to manage the pod replica count of deployment resources.