Category: Technology
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Uptime, UPS, and the Domino Effect
There’s an interesting concept behind any problem: you never really solve all your problems – they’re always there. What actually happens is this: by solving one, you inevitably create another, just in a higher dimension. Take being overweight for example. You decide to fix it by joining a gym. Solved? Not quite. Now you need…
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Web Monitoring on My Terms: Powered by Home Assistant
I used to monitor my websites with SolarWinds Pingdom. Recently, they migrated me to their new observability platform. It’s not bad – in fact, quite powerful – but way too complex for what I actually needed. I managed to reconfigure everything and set up SMS alerts through another provider (apparently, they no longer supports SMS…
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Building My Raspberry Pi Setup with the Pironman 5 Case
When I decided to build my home automation server, I knew it had to run Home Assistant OS (HAOS) on Raspberry Pi hardware. I ordered everything I needed and decided on the Pironman 5 case. However, the case delivery was set to take over two weeks, and I was eager to start tinkering with Home…
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Natively Minimize Apps to System Tray Without Built-in Support
Some apps natively support this functionality, while others don’t. The taskbar is expensive real estate, and having things sitting there when all you need is for the app to be active in the background isn’t efficient. You can find third-party tools to handle the minimization process for you if app doesn’t have native support; however,…
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