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An hour with AI moved his home system onto a private network, documented in git

Spent an hour with AI migrating a Home Assistant setup to Tailscale, updating sensors and Pi-hole, and putting it all in one documented git compose file.

How it works

  1. He spends an hour with AI migrating the home setup to a private network
  2. Updating sensors and the ad blocker
  3. Putting it all in one documented version-controlled compose file

Why it’s worth knowing

Documented in git is what separates a setup from a mystery.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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