Twelve books. After the slow recovery of 2024, that's a number I'm genuinely pleased with — the best count since 2022. The pattern I've noticed across these posts
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After the reading cliff of 2023, 2024 was a partial recovery. Seven books across five months — not great, but better. The pattern is hard to miss looking back at these lists: reading volume
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I'm writing this 2023 post here in 2026, three years late. For the last three years I've been tracking all of the books I've read, so that
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I'm writing this 2022 post here in 2026, four years late. For the last four years I've been tracking all of the books I've read, so that
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Home Assistant has a way of quietly teaching you where the edges are.
You don’t usually notice them on day one. You notice them after years of living with your automations — when
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I love my Synology, the recent controversies notwithstanding. One of the many uses I have for my RS1221+ is using Log Center to receive syslog messages from all of my Ubiquiti networking equipment,
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2021. I normally like having this article out in the 1st Quarter of the year, but here I am at the end of September, staring at a partially written blog post, so here
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Connected Life has shut down their cloud service that was required to make the SmartDry dryer sensor work. Here's how to keep yours operational.
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I've been a Tesla Solar panel owner for 4 years. I've always wanted to have monitoring of my energy in an easier-to-consume format than having to log into the
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How to integrate the IOTTY smart home switches into Home Assistant, leveraging Alexa Routines
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I recently upgraded to macOS Monterey on my MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, I immediately had an issue in Mail.app where I was seeing "Your network preferences prevent content from loading privately."
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How to fix a raspberry pi printing a British pound symbol
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I'm starting this years "What I've Read" post with a few disclaimers, just to
make my style for these posts crystal clear. First, the links below are
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Recently my family and I went on vacation and stayed in a condo that had "Complimentary WiFi". We had packed our AppleTV because my son knows how to access all of his purchased movies (way too many) and it has my wife and I's current programming for the evenings.
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