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Achieving success with Home Assistant, Flux and sensors
My philosophy for home automation from the start has been that the best UI is no UI, meaning that I just want things to work automagically. I don’t want to...
Restoring access to PosgreSQL after Helm upgrade
If you’ve used PostgreSQL in Kubernetes with Helm, chance are you’ve locked yourself out after performing an upgrade. The reason for this is that if you do not specify a...
VMWare Fusion error - cannot open /dev/vmmon
This weekend I needed to use Fusion for the first time since I upgraded to macOS Mojave. Having run Fusion 8 for many years and being happy with it, I...
Interview with John Agosta from Canonical/Ubuntu on working remotely
In this interview on remote work, I’m speaking to John Agosta from Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu). As a long-time Canonical team member, John and my paths have crossed multiple...
Home Assistant, ESPHome and JZK ESP-32S
Long story short, I’ve pimped out my apartment with a lot of Ikea Smart products, such that I can control (and automate) everything from Home Assistant. While I admittedly have...
Install Ubuntu Core 18/22 on Proxmox
Today I was trying to get Ubuntu Core 18/22 working on Proxmox. Given that it is a KVM based tool, it’s fairly straight-forward, but took me a bit of time...
Interview with Rimas Mocevicius from JFrog on working remotely
First out in this interview series, we have Rimas Mocevicius. Rimas is someone that I got to know from the London Kubernetes scene some time ago. He worked on Deis...
What are the best productivity hacks?
People love talking about productivity hacks (a.k.a. productivity porn). The “hacks” usually range from the latest tools (todo-lists, email clients) to workflow improvements.