What to check before running Cloudflare Clef at home
Open weights make Clef worth investigating for local automation. The hardware and software deserve a closer look before you buy anything.
The notebook
Technical research and plain-English explainers, with sources, dates and explicit limits on what has been tested. Use the evidence to plan your next experiment.
AI classifiers: small decisions, useful local AI
What an AI classifier actually does, how it differs from a chatbot or model router, and where small, testable decisions can help in a home AI setup.
Jev: a practical guide to TypeSafe's decision model
Jev makes typed decisions through a hosted API. Here's what its choice, score, and yes/no outputs mean, what it costs, and what to check before using it.
Laya: an open-source classifier for local decisions
Laya brings typed AI decisions to your own hardware. Understand its open license, model choices, hardware needs, and the limits behind the benchmark headlines.
Zigbee vs Z-Wave vs Thread vs Wi-Fi vs Bluetooth
A plain-English comparison of Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth for home sensors—plus where Matter actually fits—covering battery life, mesh behavior, and hub dependency.
You don't need the cloud to run your own AI
A plain-English explainer on running AI models on your own hardware — what it means, what it costs, what you give up, and why it's the front door to everything else we cover here.