connecting the tubes

In my previous post, I tore apart a Flume water monitor and traced its communication path from the sensor, through the bridge, and up to Flume’s cloud MQTT server.

About a year ago, I bought a smart home water monitor in order to keep an eye my water use at home.

In 2023, I managed to integrate my garage doors with HomeAssistant using a Shelly Uni device.

A binary clock is hardly a new idea, but this particular concept is something I haven’t seen anywhere else.

Now that TLS is free, there’s very little excuse to be running web services over plain HTTP.

AWS Lambda is unique among PaaS offerings.

A recent client of mine needed an app to help him build bite-sized CSV files from a large PostgreSQL table.

My battle with Errbit performance is over for the time being.

Last week, I continued my exploration into Errbit slowness.

Round One One of the first things I did when tracking down performance issues was motivated by a lot of experience with Rails apps.