Geek

This has been a coding adventure. My aim? Simple, really: Get Home Assistant talking to CBus, replacing 'MisterHouse', which on my network dates from ten years ago (and is a non-maintained pig). And now dead to me. My stretch goals? Add MQTT discovery for Home Assistant, to eliminate any manual

BGP is the routing protocol of the Internet, and using it locally in your own network for things like DNS and other stateless service redundancy is fantastic.

Life in lockdown for a nerd. When nerds get isolated was a Facebook series I put together during the Great Covid-19 Lockdown of 2020, when nobody got out much, and not working at the time meant I invented things to work on.

A mad little robotics project.

I've tried quite a few bits of music tagging software that utilise song lookup services, and many of these are great. But they generally suck for music videos.