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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

2025 is already coming to an end. It's hard to believe that another year has already gone by. So many things happened this year, so many changes. I started this year completely burnt out from the end of 2024. The end of the year is a huge deadline for the... read more.

A Technical Refresh

I'm super excited to have just completed a technical refresh of this site. I've made things simpler to update the content. I hope that because it is easier, I will write more and use this site more. I've gone back to the framework that I started this blog... read more.

Creating a Home Assistant Smart Display

I'm a big Home Assistant fan and have been using it for a very long time. I've had my own smart display for a few years, running on balena-dash, but have been slowly reducing my dependencies on 3rd party clouds- replacing garage door controls with ratgdo, ... read more.

Writing Code

I was recently reminded of the concept that code is more often read than written while reading "Tidy First?" by Kent Beck (If you haven't read "Tidy First?", I highly recommend it). From my own experiences in reading other's code--including my own years l... read more.

Whelp...

I started this blog many, many years ago and have had many, many restarts. Sometimes I wonder why I keep it up. Here I am again with another restart. Time flies to say the least. My original plan for the last restart was to try and write something weekly.... read more.