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2026

Converting a Tuya Thermostat to ESPHomeoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2026

2025

Bringing Foam Monsters to Life: How I Wrote and Illustrated a Children's Book Using AIoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2025

2023

How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kidsoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2023
Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions)original ↗
2 Sept 2023
How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!)original ↗
22 Mar 2023
Year in review: 2022original ↗
11 Jan 2023

2022

Smart lights behind a wall switch (Shelly, Z-Wave, ESPHome)original ↗
7 Oct 2022
Serverless Anagram Solver with Cloudflare R2 and Pagesoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2022
Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Remindersoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2022
How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50%original ↗
8 Feb 2022
Tracking gas usage with ESPHome, Home Assistant, and TCRT5000original ↗
19 Jan 2022
My Sixth Year as YouTube Creator (statistics + retrospective)original ↗
7 Jan 2022
EZStore: a tiny serverless datastore for IoT data (DynamoDB + Lambda)original ↗
4 Jan 2022

2021

ESP-IDF: Storing AWS IoT certificates in the NVS partition (for OTA)original ↗
2 Nov 2021
How to securely access your home network with Cloudflare Tunnel and WARPoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2021
I Built a CO2 Sensor and It Terrifies Meoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2021
Filtering spam on YouTube with TensorFlow & AIoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2021
Building a killer NAS with an old Rackable Serveroriginal ↗
29 Jun 2021
How I Structure My ESPHome Config Filesoriginal ↗
27 May 2021
Howto Virtualize Unraid on a Proxmox hostoriginal ↗
8 May 2021
MAX17043: Battery Monitoring Done Right (Arduino & ESP32)original ↗
28 Apr 2021
Preventing Cumulative Layout Shifts with lazy loaded images (Eleventy + markdown-it)original ↗
26 Apr 2021
Migrating This Blog From Jekyll to Eleventyoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2021
Good Home Automation Should be Boringoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2021
ESP32 Cam: cropping images on deviceoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2021
Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTubeoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2021

2020

Secure Home Assistant Access with Cloudflare and Ubiquiti Dream Machineoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2020
Shelly 2.5 + ESPHome: potential fire hazard + fixoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2020
Impact of Adblockers on Google Analytics (vs. Plausible)original ↗
27 Oct 2020
Shelly 2.5: Flash ESPHome Over The Air!original ↗
22 Sept 2020
Tuya IR Hub: control Daikin AC (Home Assistant + ESPHome)original ↗
17 Sept 2020
Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistantoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2020
HEIC to JPG: Build a Quick Action with Automatororiginal ↗
8 Jul 2020
Make Your Garage Door Opener Smart: Shelly 1, ESPHome and Home Assistantoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2020
Static webhosting benchmark: AWS, Google, Firebase, Netlify, GitHub & Cloudflareoriginal ↗
28 May 2020
Why I don't take sponsorshipsoriginal ↗
20 May 2020
Monitoring my 3D printer with a Pi Zero, Home Assistant and TinyCore Linuxoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2020
ESP32: Keep WiFi connection alive with a FreeRTOS taskoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2020
Home Energy Monitor: V2original ↗
11 Feb 2020
Retrospective: 4 years on YouTubeoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2020