Home Automation
Disclaimer: This is only useful for people living in Germany. But you might get inspiration from this post to build this yourself. Let's go. So the other day I stumbled across a competition from the German Make magazine about automation and found a guy who did build a
Home Lab and Hardware
A personal review for the Tuxedo Aura 15 from a long time Linux user and developers perspective
The impact of Reddit and what I learned from that.
Home Lab and Hardware
When I started my new job at gridscale (01.08.2020) I got a Dell Latitude 5310. Quickly I found out that this machine is not suiting me well and I want to share my experience. Main workflow This is not about bashing the Dell Latitude 5310. It might be
Home Automation
Smart bed heater update with integrated timer function in ESPHome.
Home Automation
How to build a smart bed warmer with Home Assistant.
Home Lab and Hardware
I needed an HBA for my NAS. Did some research twice (did this a year or two ago already) and forgot everything. HBA stands for Host Bus Adapter and is used to connect SATA or SAS drives via the HBA to the motherboard via the PCIe slot. Here is what
Home Automation
How to monitor Home Assistant or any other service with a free monitoring tool: UptimeRobot
Today I learned
I always forget how to pipe stderr to stdout. Especially when going through docker logs I need this all the time. docker logs nginx 2>&1 | grep "127." Now I have written this down and I hope I do not to forget this anymore. If so
Self-Hosting
Even though I work in the field of cloud hosting and have learned a lot there, my blog was still down for a stupid error. Out of curiosity I checked my analytics tool (umami [https://umami.is/]) and could not reach it. It is running on the same server this
Today I learned
I have a few USB thumb drives in my drawer and never remember what each of them does. One was a Windows 10 installation medium, the other was Ubuntu Desktop, and so on. Mostly I will download a new ISO and just flash it again. But that time stops now
Linux
Since around 2014 I am running a NAS, Server whatever you want to call it. Since then I did not have a drive failure once. Actually, I never had a drive fail me yet, knock on wood. I got interested in how these drives are doing. I was playing around