Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat

Last year, Belkin ended support for their Wemo home automation devices.

This morning, Belkin announced that they are pulling the plug on their Wemo home automation ecosystem and shutting down the app, cloud, and devices as of January 31, 2026.

I’ve used a lot of KVM (keyboard, video, and mouse) switches over the years, but the JetKVM is a whole new ballgame.

I’m a long-time Home Assistant user, and have found it an incredible way to control and monitor a wide variety of devices.

Pretty much everything I do these days, at least in terms of systems administration, is done using Docker Compose.

I worked primarily from home for over a decade, and though I now have an office with a few employees, many of the challenges remain the same.

If you’re a real hacker, you’re interested in all sorts of tech, from computers and the internet to radio to airplanes.

YouTube is essentially the only game in town when it comes to Internet video, with a critical mass of viewers and tight integration with Google search.

With the current turmoil at Twitter, many people are turning to the federated social media network built around Mastodon as their new social outlet.

ZeroTier is an incredibly useful tool to enable true access from anywhere to any networked resource.