Zion, part 3: a dashboard that says 'All good' and a 2015 tablet on the wall
Why I wrote my own homelab dashboard in stdlib Python, and what it took to keep a 2015 Fire 7 on LineageOS showing it on the wall 24/7.
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Hi, I'm Jatin.
I've been writing code for close to 20 years. These days I'm the architect of Atlassian's agentic interfaces platform, and here I write about engineering, the things I build, and the occasional detour, since 2011.
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Labelarium: I kept losing one sheet of paper, so I built an app
My Brother P-touch has 649 symbols indexed on one paper sheet I kept losing. Labelarium is the offline, open-source companion app I built instead, now on Product Hunt and Peerlist.
Turning a Samsung Foldable into a Retro Handheld: An AI-Agent-Run ES-DE Setup Guide
20 systems, one frontend, every one running at full speed. Here’s how an AI agent and I got there, including the parts that broke.
I debloated my TCL Google TV over ADB, found Samba TV’s ACR inside a system service, and replaced the home screen with a 33 KB launcher
Debloating a TCL Google TV over ADB without root: auditing packages, finding Samba TV ACR in a system service, and building a lightweight custom launcher.
I Let an AI Agent Debug My Foldable’s Battery Over ADB. Here’s the Playbook It Followed.
60 MB of diagnostics, six weeks of battery history, and a surprise: the “bloat” from restoring my old phone wasn’t the problem.
From Vocalinux to the Voca family: a Mac port, a phone app and three app stores
Porting Vocalinux to macOS, moving it all into one Voca org, and pushing VocaPhone through Google Play, the App Store and F-Droid in a single autumn.
A year of 3D printing: my giant creative hammer
A Flashforge AD5M, a printed enclosure, a dryer before TPU, a desk mount an LLM helped draft, an STL edited by an AI agent and an NFC tag for my dog.