Hi, I'm Patrick.
Product Owner and AI builder. Irish, based in the Hochtaunus. I write about product, automation and my homelab.
Self-hosted music stack
Replacing Spotify with Navidrome, Bandcamp, beets and MusicBrainz, playlists intact.
Latest writing.
Notes from product work, AI and the homelab.
- The banned books iceberg, updated for today
Most banned-book lists stop at school challenges and historical classics. Here's what the rest of the iceberg looks like now, and why I built a catalogue for it. - Not emulation: how recomps and decomps are turning old console games into native PC ports
AnyPS5 claims to run PS5 binaries on PC without an emulator, and AI is speeding up decompilation. Here's how recomps and decomps are turning old console games into native ports. - A job search agent that runs on my own PC and never applies for me
It checks my sources every morning, scores new postings against my profile and drafts cover letters. Every decision stays with me. - self-hosted-spotify