Where it started
Home Assistant is an open-source platform for connecting and automating devices around the home. It gave me a way to connect the devices in my house and make them work together around how I actually live. Over time, setting up my home became a reason to learn more about the software behind it.
I started writing my own integrations as that interest grew. They come from practical things I want my own setup to do.
That is still what I enjoy about Home Assistant: there is always something useful to build or improve. I publish my integrations as open source so other people can use them, see how they work, and adapt them to their own homes.
Where local AI came in
My Home Assistant project was also where I first started using AI running on my own hardware to help me write code. I had a project I cared about and real problems to work through, which gave me a practical reason to explore what local models could do.
That experience helped lead me toward OpenSourcesAI. Choosing a model meant thinking about the whole setup: the hardware available, the tools needed to run it, and whether it was useful for the work in front of me. Those are the kinds of questions I now try to help other people answer through this site.