The Story
I'm a big believer in tiny touches that make a place feel intentional. So I built an always-on "hotel welcome" screen that lives in the guest bedroom — basically a boutique-hotel vibe board, but for my apartment. It's not about efficiency. It's about making guests feel welcomed the moment they get settled in. It can show the weekend plan/agenda, a few house notes, a Wi‑Fi QR code, and whatever local recommendations feel relevant. It's small, silly, and genuinely useful — which is basically my favorite category of project.
Highlights
- A single-screen, couch-distance UI (readable from across the room)
- Config-driven content (guest name, agenda, notes, favorites) so it's easy to update
- Weather snapshot + forecast (optional live fetch)
- Wi‑Fi QR (because spelling passwords is a hate crime)
- Private hosting (not published to the open internet)
Stack
HTML/CSS/JSS3 + CloudFrontBasic authOpen‑MeteoKiosk device (TV / Pi / stick)
Notes
- No sensitive stuff gets shared publicly — it's meant for guests, not Google.
- This is the same muscle as 'real work': systems thinking, UX, and operational sanity.
This is what I mean by “automation”
Not gadgets for the sake of gadgets — just fewer tiny frictions, and more time actually hanging out.