A little less jargon. A lot more useful.
TECH WITHOUT THE TECHNOBABBLE
Smart homes, home servers, AI and useful tech — explained for normal people.
Home Assistant, Zigbee, Matter and automations.
ExploreProxmox, networking and your very own home lab.
ExploreLocal AI, useful tools and a few experiments.
ExploreReviews, tutorials and less annoying technology.
ExploreWatch. Try. Get it working.
The latest video
My Proxmox server is running out of room, so I bring three Proxmox VE nodes together into one cluster and migrate Pi-hole to another host. This walkthrough starts with Home Assistant, Pi-hole and Zigbee2MQTT on the…
Watch the videoA good place to start
No need to know what everything is called.
Just pick what you want to do.
At your own pace
Less guesswork. Better choices.
The gadgets, kit and useful bits worth a closer look.
The human behind the porpoise
I’ve spent years working in IT. I created Wrong Words on Porpoise to explain technology without assuming everyone already speaks fluent geek.
Here you’ll find things to try, things I’ve learned, and the occasional wrong word. All on porpoise, obviously.
