Dedinet

I'm a hands-on builder who likes figuring things out myself — from OpenWrt networking and transparent proxies to VPS hosting and Telegram bots. This site is my little corner of the internet: part portfolio, part lab notebook, and lately part journal — every article carries its date, and the stories get updated as the builds evolve. Everything here was built for one reason: to make my life easier.

Currently running my own VPN infrastructure on a private VPS, tinkering with Nikki/Mihomo on OpenWrt, building Telegram bots that stream music — and teaching a Nest Mini to be my AI's voice.

🐕 Two Watchdogs, One Sunday

A phone that watches the power grid for blackout notices, and a calm router script that revives a dying VPN tunnel — plus the quirks that made it take all afternoon. Read the full story →

🐰 Sweet Bunny — Telegram Music Bot

A two-bot setup: a Bot API face bot with a pretty player UI, backed by a Telethon userbot that streams audio into voice chats. Supports YouTube, TikTok, SoundCloud and more via yt-dlp. Read the full story →

🌐 Personal VPN

Self-hosted VMess + WebSocket + TLS running on a private VPS, fronted by nginx with Let's Encrypt. My own private tunnel, my own domain. Read the full story →

📡 OpenWrt + Nikki Homelab

Transparent proxy setup with Mihomo on OpenWrt — per-app routing rules, WhatsApp scheduling, DNS-over-HTTPS, and a whole household running through it. Read the full story →

🔊 Giving My AI a Voice

Freed a WiZ bulb from the cloud with direct UDP control, then turned a Nest Mini into my AI's speaker — now via a Docker caster on the router, a VPS queue, and a lot of stubbornness. Read the full story →

🔌 Killing the Token Treadmill

Migrated my smart home from Samsung SmartThings to Tuya — dead-end bridges, a two-identities breakthrough, the AP mode trick, and firing the daily token-fetch treadmill for good. Read the full story →