Thanksgiving Is for Family. Mine Was for Code.
Earlier this week I recorded a ten-second voice note asking for a dinner reservation, put my phone down, and went back to what I was doing. A few minutes later the confirmation was waiting for me. I...
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I Built a Jason Statham Movie Generator in Less Time Than a Jason Statham Movie
With no post-season Jays baseball to fill my evenings this year, I've been leaning on my usual fallback after a long day: a mindless action movie with the volume up and my brain switched off. Last...
I Spent a Decade Running the M6. Then I Met It Again.
Google Drive sent me one of those notifications a couple of weeks ago. Storage full. Time to clean up. So I started poking through the corners of my drive looking for things to delete, and that is how...
I Lost My Receiver Remote, So I Built a Smart IR Blaster with an ESP32
I lost the remote for my Yamaha RX-V385 receiver. Not temporarily misplaced it, not left it between couch cushions. Gone. Vanished into whatever dimension claims TV remotes, single socks, and 10mm...
Controlling My Office Light with Natural Language (A Weekend Tinkering Story)
Wtih today being a holiday (Good Friday) and a chance to finally start to tackle my "todo" list around the house I installed a new smart light in my office, an Artika Skyshade I picked up from Costco...
Welcome to Conduit (new blog engine)
If you're reading this, you're looking at a completely rebuilt blog. Not a theme change. Not a migration. A from-scratch rebuild of everything – the content system, the search, the social layer, and...
When Critical Isn't Critical
Last week I was reviewing a vulnerability scan report for a client when something caught my eye. Buried in a list of "critical" findings was a Log4j vulnerability - you know, the one that broke the...
Introducing CopyIT.app
Have you ever been in a situation where you need to copy text between multiple computers/devices but didn't have a simple way to do it? Maybe it's some long command you need to run, or a product key you need to enter. Sure there are "hacky" ways to do it, including emailing yourself, sending an in