Things I build, break, fix, and write about

Federation looks tidy until you let it touch the edges, and then the odd cases arrive fast. I prefer self-hosted social feeds that stay explicit about what is local, what is remote, and what should...

FireAvert’s setup does the part that matters without asking Home Assistant to babysit it, which is exactly how I want stove protection to behave. The Home Assistant Z-Wave stove shutoffs badge is...

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Plausible Analytics keeps the tracking honest enough for a homelab. It counts site use without the usual baggage, and the trade-offs are plain to see, which is more than I can say for most analytics...

Android interoperability is only interesting when it stops being a slogan and starts changing what third-party assistants can actually do. I have spent long enough working around Android’s polite...

Home Assistant OS web server settings matter more than they used to, because the port, bind and trusted proxy choices now decide how the box is reached. Get them wrong and I have seen proxy setups...

controller-runtime cache makes reads look easy until you trust them too much. I have chased stale objects and pointless conflicts through more than one controller, and the fix was never magic, just...

Kubernetes static pods are unforgiving when kubelet cannot satisfy a reference locally. I have seen a tidy manifest fail because it quietly leaned on the API server, and the fix was not clever, just...

Gateway API TCPRoute finally gives raw L4 routing a proper shape, without the usual controller-specific nonsense. I like it because it stays plain, listener attachment is explicit, and you are not...

clipboard hijacking works because the address still looks right, until it does not. I prefer to treat the clipboard as hostile, especially with cryptocurrency transfers, where one careless paste is...