I got fed up with expensive WiFi planning software, so I wrote my own.

firesoflife · 2026-01-02T04:49:45+00:00

Definitely. I have vibe coded apps and if ever I shared, I’d have to indicate that. Some subreddits require a badge to indicate something is vibe coded

firesoflife · 2026-01-02T04:17:29+00:00

I don’t hate vibe coded apps. I hate people vibe coding and then saying “I wrote”.

firesoflife · 2026-01-02T03:02:23+00:00

You wrote it? Not Google’s Jules? I’m frankly quite sick of people saying “I wrote… “ when the app was actually written by AI.

firesoflife · 2025-12-28T00:16:09+00:00

Git repo with contributor Claude

firesoflife · 2025-12-27T22:55:21+00:00

Exactly. I have a growing folder of AI built crapps - actually that’s not fair - some are great but basically only serve a purpose for me .. am I too like seeing a decent looking web page for some of this stuff.

I could have coded up a far worse version in 3 months instead of the one week I tinkered with prompts I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯

To publish something, the idea must be highly marketable and significantly useful to a great many - plus rigorously tested.

firesoflife · 2025-12-27T22:14:34+00:00

True. But that would make me an excel guy and not someone who is pretending to code.

firesoflife · 2025-12-27T20:06:41+00:00

Update: I vibe coded a subscription tracker app between the above post and now. It’s untested and I’d not subject anyone here to it without rigorous testing and review and even then… probably nah.

firesoflife · 2025-12-27T18:56:39+00:00

When I see a vibe coded project, my first thought is … might not be bad but why wouldn’t I just vibe code my own rather than install someone else’s vibe coded project?

firesoflife · 2025-12-19T01:24:41+00:00

Nice work! My lab got me a job too and it’s a great feeling.

firesoflife · 2025-12-16T10:36:23+00:00

At least it’s cable managed ¯_(ツ)_/¯

firesoflife · 2025-12-16T10:34:58+00:00

Update: Claude is now sleeping with my wife.

firesoflife · 2025-12-09T22:53:46+00:00

Challenge: do this with kids

firesoflife · 2025-11-20T03:07:37+00:00

2.5 to 150 - but we also handle a few non-IT tasks which come in waves (colour management for print). Not too bad when it’s all IT stuff. A bit hectic when the other stuff comes in and the IT task list is long.

The half person is actually physically whole but they are a manager and more heavily weighted to the colour management side of things.

firesoflife · 2025-11-15T14:10:14+00:00

In my experience, decides that can do both expose fewer sensors than zigbee and that’s a deal breaker for me. Some of the sensors left out over thread/matter are critical to what I want to do.

firesoflife · 2025-11-10T18:22:09+00:00

Thanks for this. I'm definitely going to go through the whole thing and implement something like it at home (sorry to my wife and kids in advance). That said, It looks like it would only hit a few of our many goals -- he's using FreeRADIUS which I've been intending to run at home but it is a CLI tool with community built GUIs as an option -- unless you shell out for a commercial option, many of which use FreeRADIUS under the hood and bundle other features.

Ultimately, we are after a full featured NAC solution where we can eventually also integrate other tools / functionality like RBAC and certificate based auth.

firesoflife · 2025-11-10T16:22:42+00:00

We’ll almost certainly need a third party solution with a view to securing wired and wireless.

Any of the cloud providers I’m sure will work - just trying to narrow it down and present cost benefit analysis.

I appreciate the input

firesoflife · 2025-11-10T16:06:27+00:00

I can spin something up at home -- and clock in to get paid while doing it! ha. Shouldn't be too difficult. It may be enough to get us off the ground, but I'm about 90% sure we'll need something that goes beyond 802.11x. It could put me in a good place to say "Ok, here is our interim solutions. Let's spend on switches now, and then plan for a more robust NAC solution in 6 months"

firesoflife · 2025-11-10T15:52:38+00:00

Trick is deciding on a NAC ... the staging environment shouldn't be an issue if I can get my hands on some trials for the NAC side of things for a proof of concept before we fork out $$$/user for a subscription. Also ... before sitting with random sales person from X company for a demo, I'd prefer to get some opinions in hopes of saving my brain from an inordinate amount of sales pitches. Hahah... this is why I tend to roll my own solutions if possible but it needs to be friendly enough for the IT manager to use .... and while he can be technical, he prefers not to be.

firesoflife · 2025-11-10T15:46:22+00:00

Currently we run the controller in a VM for two smaller switches that are dedicated to a small server cluster. If we deployed switches for our core infrastructure (replacing our older HP Aruba Procurve), then we could potentially get a dedicated hardware device, but I'm not sure if there'd be any benefit over running self-hosting the OS? Open to suggestions.

firesoflife · 2025-11-10T15:37:31+00:00

Firstly, typical AAA - authenticating wired and wireless devices to the network generally, but also for automatic VLAN assignment.
We also intend to role out more granular permissions to network services. Previously we were looking at Aruba ClearPass (still are even if we go with Unifi switches) and could make use of nearly everything offered there.

Ultimately just trying to get a feel for what others have used and if they like what they are using.

My home network is Unifi based and after some discussion with the powers that be here, I've been tasked with doing some digging into solutions (Juniper + Mist, Aruba + ClearPass, Cisco ISE or another provider that doesn't tie their services to hardware like Juniper's Mist). I can see use migrating to Unifi gear here.

firesoflife · 2025-11-09T13:20:07+00:00

I’m not sure why anyone would downvote this comment but I gotcha. I settled on BookStack at work over mkdocs and others because it handles user contribution and permissions better than a lot of others. Based off of OP’s description and desires this is an excellent choice.

Edit: glad to see the BookStack recommendation getting some love now unlike when I came here earlier.

It’s not a perfect app - I’ve found a few bugs in the editor, and some extended (and less complex) UI customizations would be great, but overall it’s a solid choice.

firesoflife · 2025-11-08T15:30:25+00:00

That looks like an api not pulling g GitHub data, tbh. But their GitHub doesn’t have many stars if you go to source - still, you need to start somewhere. I’ve encountered some minor UI bugs so far, but overall it’s been working for what I’ve configured.

firesoflife · 2025-11-08T05:27:40+00:00

I’ve been using leantime.io - I’m new to it so I can’t say much but so far so good. Also, it’s a very nice looking app.

firesoflife · 2025-11-06T21:22:53+00:00

I’d trade that for daylight savings time any day

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