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On MacOS clearing the DNS cache with dscacheutil -flushcache && killall -HUP mDNSResponder is annoying.

WHEN WILL WINTER END?

While water is wonderful I really don’t want it leaking into my apartment because of faulty pipes and taps.

Are you secure?

Lighting.

This complete apartment renovation isn’t my first foray into home automation - I’ve had my rental place automated for years, and it’s given me a lot of insights into how things work in the real world.

In 2023 my partner and I were lucky enough to buy an apartment in Berlin.

A disk in my ZFS pool has just started to die - and, quite annoyingly, not in a consistent way.

There’s a wee trend going around called “Blog Questions Challenge”.

I’ve added schema.org data to each page of this site.

This project to remind you what day of the week you exist in is ridiculous and I love it.

❤️ the 1UP and Berlin Kidz crews.

Death Metal

I’ve been putting off enabling dark mode on my site for weeks.

It’s easy to setup the Home Assistant Ollama integration.

A very useful utility that allows you to define pre-commit git hooks via a simple Yaml file.

Spent the last Saturday of my vacation fixing the build time on my site.

This is just a dummy to test grouping by month and day.

Engineers bear a burden to the public, and their specific expertise emanates from that responsibility. ❤️ - and goes rather nicely with what I said about software engineering.

Someone should only dare to use the term “Engineer” in their job title if they can analyse, design, test and build systems within an understood set of constraints, including, but not limited to, accessibility, safety, and cost.

My goodness this is a very interesting thing for people to look at as a purely academic exercise

Just to note that my self-hosting and home automation infra can be found on Github.

It fills me with ick, but I just connected OpenAI to my Home Assistant.

The Home Assistant Voice hardware has been hinted at for months, but now it’s finally here.

A nice little tool for testing your YAML files.

Gah, I wish this little CLI tool was maintained, because it’s amazingly useful.

God I loved this show.

If your homelab is being used by others it isn’t a homelab - it’s home production.

When the “threats” are tweets that come from anonymous single-figure troll accounts and - despite knowing this - you publicly link these trolls with the tiny trans community… well, I think we can all safely say that your faux concerns are clearly rooted in

Jaysus, how did I miss that we’ve passed the 4 million dead mark for COVID-19?

It’s exactly 6 years today that I moved to Berlin with my partner.

Hands up all the women who talk about the tech industry in therapy.

Yes to self-explaining variables pls.

DevOps is irritatingly interesting, and very, very hard to combine with a passion for accessibility and slow-tech.

I think… I think I love you @MhairiBlack?

Are you the developer who never talks, or are you the developer that never stops talking oh god please stop talking

Hoooooo boy.

I was about to mock this but it’s actually hella relatable.

Amazing article on time by @holman

Mood.

If you can’t block them then at least you can swear at them