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These days I write about the technology I actually use — trucks, radios, home infrastructure, and the tools that survive past the first invoice. 48 posts [willcurran.com](https://willcurran.com) Aug 21, 2026 Builds ## [How I Rebuilt willcurran.com With Claude Design and Claude Code](https://willcurran.com/blog/how-i-rebuilt-my-website-with-ai) This site ran on an off-the-shelf HubSpot theme for years. Dark, competent, generic. Roboto and Lato, a coral accent I never chose, and a layout that looked like a hundred other sites built from the same marketplace listing. It worked. It ... 8 min read Aug 18, 2026 Home ## [Spray Foam Doesn't Pay for Itself on Power Alone](https://willcurran.com/blog/spray-foam-power-alone) On electricity alone, my model put the payback on the spray foam in my garage at 15 to 30 years. I ran that math first and bought it anyway. 5 min read Aug 7, 2026 Builds ## [Two Tiers for Local AI](https://willcurran.com/blog/two-tiers-local-ai) In August 2026 I sketched what it would take to run my AI work at home. The plan had two tiers: a fast GPU for the high-volume background jobs, and a big-memory machine for the long conversation. Over 37 days, 96.6% of the tokens my setup ... 6 min read Aug 3, 2026 Builds ## [Will Renaming My Node Every Hour Break the Mesh? The Airtime Math](https://willcurran.com/blog/node-rename-airtime-math) In August I wanted a weather node on the mesh whose name was the weather: something like WX Station - 110°, with a little sky emoji as its short name. Renaming a node puts a packet on the air, so before I built it I did the math. Renaming ... 7 min read Jul 31, 2026 Builds ## [The Radio That Lied About Dying](https://willcurran.com/blog/radio-that-lied-about-dying) The radio in my new Meshtastic base station was dead for ten days, and the service manager recorded every one of its fourteen restart attempts as a clean, successful exit. Read at face value, that pointed at the hardware, and the first ... 7 min read Jul 30, 2026 Builds ## [An E-Ink Truck Dashboard That Admits When It Doesn't Know](https://willcurran.com/blog/eink-truck-dashboard) In July I built an e-ink dashboard for my Rivian in one day. It sits on a TRMNL and shows charge, range, cabin temperature and anything left open. Most of the work went into one question: what should the screen do when it doesn't know? 7 min read Jul 29, 2026 Music ## [Every Wireless Turntable Is Late](https://willcurran.com/blog/every-wireless-turntable-is-late) I set out to answer a small question: can a Wi-Fi turntable send records to a WiiM multiroom system? On paper, yes. The catch is that a wireless turntable is late in every room, including the one it sits in. Bluetooth adds somewhere ... 6 min read Jul 28, 2026 Home ## [My Motion Sensor Gave Up Above 100°F](https://willcurran.com/blog/my-motion-sensor-gave-up-above-100f) My PIR motion sensor started firing on its own and kept my patio misters cycling. I moved the start to camera person detection, left motion only as a hold, and put a hard 30-minute cap over both. 5 min read Jul 27, 2026 Builds ## [The Day the Home Server's SSD Died](https://willcurran.com/blog/home-server-ssd-died) In late July 2026 the mini PC that ran Home Assistant for my house got a reboot in the middle of a config session and never came back. My question was whether that reboot had broken it. The answer was half yes. The reboot pulled the ... 6 min read Jul 25, 2026 Home ## [With a BedJet, Cooling Comforters Are Wrong](https://willcurran.com/blog/bedjet-cooling-comforters-are-wrong) In July 2026 I went looking for the best cooling comforter for an Arizona summer, and the answer turned out to be that I shouldn't buy one. The bed has a BedJet, which blows heated or cooled air under the covers. 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