Politics Dashboard screenshot

Politics Dashboard: A Self-Hosted, AI-Summarized News & X Feed Reader

Politics Dashboard: A Self-Hosted, AI-Summarized News & X Feed Reader Bottom line up front. I built and now open-sourced a self-hosted news dashboard that aggregates political news from RSS or FreshRSS, summarizes each article with a configurable LLM, generates a 24-hour thematic digest, and sits alongside live X/Twitter posts (with per-account AI summaries) via a self-hosted Nitter. Repository: github.com/RobertDWhite/politics-dashboard. License: MIT. Multi-arch images at ghcr.io/robertdwhite/politics-{api,ui}. The image I run in production is the same image GitHub Actions builds from main. ...

May 6, 2026 · 8 min · Robert D. White
SDR Research Stack

Always-On SDR: Building a Multi-Band Radio Intelligence Platform on Kubernetes

This post was originally published at w3rdw.radio, the ham radio blog of Robert White (W3RDW). It is cross-posted here for the WhiteMatter Tech audience. Always-On SDR: Building a Multi-Band Radio Intelligence Platform on Kubernetes I have been quietly building something i am pretty excited about. The idea started simple enough: i wanted a permanent, always-on radio monitor for 2m. It grew into something considerably larger. Today the stack covers 2m, 70cm, and the full HF spectrum from 3–28 MHz simultaneously: recording, decoding, transcribing, and tagging everything it hears, around the clock, with no manual intervention. ...

April 20, 2026 · 18 min · Robert D. White