https://lifeinbytes.com/Recent content on Life in BytesHugo -- gohugo.ioen© 2026https://lifeinbytes.com/hardware-make/jarvis-update-v130-v149/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lifeinbytes.com/hardware-make/jarvis-update-v130-v149/Twenty more releases since the last update: the assistant can now see through a webcam, recognize faces by name, and manage its own knowledge base — and along the way, three separate bugs quietly broke big chunks of it without anyone noticing until real use surfaced them.https://lifeinbytes.com/lab-secops/ai-business-risk-part1-security/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lifeinbytes.com/lab-secops/ai-business-risk-part1-security/Kicking off a series on AI risk in business, starting with the part that keeps me up at night as someone who’s actually built one of these things: prompt injection, excessive agency, and the shadow AI nobody’s tracking.https://lifeinbytes.com/imagineering/solar-birdbox-music-player/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lifeinbytes.com/imagineering/solar-birdbox-music-player/A birdbox that isn’t for birds. Inside: an ESP32, a DFPlayer Mini, and 65 tracks of Disney park ambience, wired into Home Assistant so the garden can sound like Main Street U.S.A. on command — or automatically, when a real ride’s wait time drops.https://lifeinbytes.com/hardware-make/building-jarvis-home-ai/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lifeinbytes.com/hardware-make/building-jarvis-home-ai/A self-hosted LangGraph assistant that runs my smart home, reads my Obsidian vault, writes to my git server, and occasionally hallucinates a tool that doesn’t exist. Here’s what a dozen-plus releases of building it actually looked like.https://lifeinbytes.com/contact/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lifeinbytes.com/contact/Get in touch.