https://lab.denistoupin.com/The Lab - Take control. Build your own. 2026-04-10T15:29:02-04:00 Denis Toupin https://lab.denistoupin.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Denis Toupin /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-04-06T11:00:00-04:00 2026-04-07T14:24:01-04:00 https://lab.denistoupin.com/posts/Transcribe-whisper/ Denis Toupin

Transcribing Voice Memos with whisper.cpp on macOS Ever recorded a long meeting on your iPhone with the Voice Memos app and wished you could get a clean text transcript without sending the audio to some cloud service? Here’s how to do it entirely locally on your Mac using whisper.cpp - free, private, and surprisingly fast on Apple Silicon. What You Need A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or n...

2026-03-27T11:00:00-04:00 2026-04-06T10:54:55-04:00 https://lab.denistoupin.com/posts/paperless-backup/ Denis Toupin

I’ve been running Paperless-ngx on one of my Zimaboards for a while now and I finally sat down to build a proper backup strategy around it. This post documents the full setup - from dumping the PostgreSQL database to encrypted restic snapshots, a true 3-2-1 backup across multiple machines, plain document exports accessible from my iPhone, and Backrest as a read-only web UI to browse everything....

2026-02-19T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-05T11:14:04-04:00 https://lab.denistoupin.com/posts/pihole-tailscale-setup/ Denis Toupin

I wanted network-wide ad blocking that follows my Apple devices everywhere-at home, on LTE, at coffee shops, travelling. My Unifi router already had ad blocking for my home network, but the moment I switched to cellular data, ads came back. The solution: Pi-hole running as a Tailscale node, providing DNS filtering to all my tailnet devices regardless of location. Architecture Overview The fin...

2026-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2026-03-25T14:11:32-04:00 https://lab.denistoupin.com/posts/esp32-bluetooth-proxy/ Denis Toupin

My Home Assistant instance runs in Docker on a Zimaboard tucked away in a rack in my server closet. It’s a great setup (quiet, always on, centrally managed) but it comes with one significant limitation: no Bluetooth. And even if I bolted a USB Bluetooth dongle onto it, the physical location is basically a Faraday cage for BLE signals. Thick walls, a metal rack, and a concrete floor don’t make f...

2026-02-05T00:00:00-05:00 2026-03-25T14:45:44-04:00 https://lab.denistoupin.com/posts/openclaw-utm-setup-guide/ Denis Toupin

In the rapidly evolving world of AI automation, OpenClaw has emerged as one of the most exciting open-source projects of 2026. Originally known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, this self-hosted AI agent has exploded in popularity on GitHub in just a few days. Unlike typical chatbots, OpenClaw acts as a true personal AI assistant that runs locally, remembers context across conversations, and can actuall...