Notes

Technical build logs, homelab, and project notes.

• GPU-Accelerated Bird Detection on Unraid: From 55x to 379x Realtime 6 Apr 2026

  How I got birda and an RTX 2070 to process 52 minutes of bird audio in 8 seconds — and why birdnet-analyzer will never use your GPU.

  homelabunraidbirdnetdockercudagpurustfield-recording
• Centralising Beads Issue Tracking with Dolt on Unraid 6 Apr 2026

  Migrating from split-brain local Dolt databases to a single Docker container on the NAS — including the docker exec trap that locked up the array.

  homelabunraiddoltdockerdevtoolsbeads
• Building a Personal Field Recording Pipeline on Unraid 6 Apr 2026

  Drop a session folder on the NAS, click a button, get a report: GPS, BirdNET detections, transcribed field notes, and weather — fully automated.

  homelabunraidaudiofield-recordingdockerpythonproject