Below are what I consider to be my top 5 essential apps and
services of 2025. These apps and services respect my privacy and
help me control what I focus on. If you are not using them or
on the fence about one of them, I recommend you check them out in 202...
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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...
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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...
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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, ...
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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...
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