Eastern Ontario · EN / FR

Eric Paquette

I'm Eric. This is where I put what I build.

I work in municipal administration, raise goats on a small farm, and automate things that bother me. At work, at home, or in the barn — if something is repetitive and a computer could do it, eventually it will.

See what I've built
eric@home ~ bash
~/ whoami
eric paquette — municipal admin, hobby farmer, reluctant developer

~/ ls ./farm/incubator/
▸ 12x silkie eggs · day 14 of 21 · hatch cam: online

~/ cat current_project.txt
▸ planning.ericpaquette.dev
  Municipal zoning workflow · Flask · React · bilingual EN/FR

~/ uptime
self-hosted · Proxmox homelab · AspireAMD · 24/7 · no cloud required

~/

Things that bothered me enough to fix

Work, home, farm. Same brain, different problems.

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Municipal Planning Tools
Zoning applications were tracked across spreadsheets and email. Built a full bilingual case management system — variances, consents, amendments, automated notice generation (EN/FR).
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Hatch Cam
12 silkie eggs in the incubator. Rigged a camera so the kids can watch from school when they hatch. Footage saved automatically. Not everything needs to be automated — this one just needed a camera.
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Home Surveillance Stack
No subscriptions, no cloud, no data leaving the property. AI object detection, instant Telegram alerts, built on repurposed hardware that was collecting dust.
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Homelab
5 repurposed machines. Proxmox cluster, ZFS NAS, media server, databases, message broker. Everything this site runs on. Built because I wanted to understand how it all works.
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Building Permit Tools
Same problem as planning, different Act. Ontario Building Code workflows, permit tracking, inspection records. Same stack, next in line.
coming

Hi. I'm Eric.

I'm an administrative professional in Eastern Ontario. I support a municipal planning department, which means a lot of paper, a lot of legislation, and a lot of things that repeat themselves.

Outside of work I have a small hobby farm — 6 goats, 1 dog, and right now 12 silkie eggs in an incubator that my kids check on obsessively. I put a camera on it so they can watch from school. That's the same instinct that built the planning tool.

When something bothers me enough, I figure out how to fix it. I'm not a developer by trade. I just got tired of waiting for one.

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