Malachi Soord

I recently forgot the password for the admin dashboard on my EMQX instance running on Home Assistant OS and needed to reset it.

For years I’ve leveraged Adguard Home on my home network to manage ad and tracker blocking.

I recently had to reset the owner account on my Home Assistant instance after forgetting the password.

Last year, our landlord replaced our IOLite-controlled heating system with standard manual operated valves.

A while back we upgraded our TV to a Philips OLED Ambilight model similar to the Philips Ambilight 55OLED759.

The WLED project is something I have been meaning to use for a while but never got around to experimenting with until recently when I purchased some WS2812B Fairy Lights to decorate our living room with.

I recently upgraded to a new PC which has multiple drives that I wanted to encrypt and decrypt these automatically on boot.

It’s been a while since I’ve had the need to intercept traffic from an Android when things were a lot less secure and you could just use a tool such as Charles Proxy as a proxy between your device.

I’ve been running an ESP32 NodeMCU in the bedroom for motion, temperature, and humidity for a while and have wanted to extend it’s functionality by adding light sensing too, in order to improve the motion light control to trigger when the lux is a certain…

I was an avid user of custom ROMs for my Android phones when vendors used to stop providing updates or included too much bloat with their releases.

I noticed that the Pi3 that had been hosting our Home Assistant setup along with a minimal set of addons was really struggling which came apparent with things not being as stable as they should and often requiring reboots.