Pizza, programming and cars - sometimes in that order.
Water bills in the UK are going up, again, and I thought it would be nice to keep a closer eye on the household usage by integrating the water meter in to Home Assistant. Learn how I used an ESP8266 and CC1101 to read from an Irton EverBlu Cyble water meter, and some of the problems I hit along the way.
I've been playing around with PGlite, and it's pretty cool. There are some gotchas, so I'll run through how I got PGlite running with Vite and Drizzle. There's a working demo and GitHub repo at the end too.
Writing tickets that everyone can understand that describe the goal and not the implementation
curl doesn't exist in BusyBox by default, but there is a way to do it - and it's simpler than you may think!
Asus routers let you SSH in to them for remote management. You'll learn how to write a shell script in flash memory to run any scripts you want, when you want.
In our team we recently created a small new API in Go, to provide a more reliable search tool. In this post, I wanted to share some experiences from starting afresh with Go, through the lens of doing Node.js development.
I recently purchased a shiny new 4K Samsung TV. It’s brilliant, but it’s nearly impossible to buy one without ‘smart’ capabilities (e.g…
Well, it’s been nearly 5 years since I last wrote any kind of personal blog. I’ve written several posts for employers (a few pieces on…