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Fire safety with Home Assistant, or how I made my iron a Smart Iron® GadgetsHome Assistant Apr 2026
Last weekend, I got to thinking about fire safety and Home Assistant. I’m always anxious about not leaving the iron…
No, vibe coding is not killing B2B SaaS ERPTechnology Feb 2026
AI coding tools are transformative. As someone who’s been building software for 20 years, I’m amazed at how fun Claude…
Calendar-Based Presence Detection for Kids in Home Assistant Home Assistant Jan 2026
Lately, I’ve been working on some fun Home Assistant automations based on whether my kids are in the house. The…
Transcribing and collating Uniden radio recordings with Whisper AI Radio Dec 2025
One of my favorite features of Uniden BCDx36- and SDS- series radios is the ability to enable a favorites list…
We started to serve Indian food here PittsburghWhimsy Dec 2023
In downtown Pittsburgh, there’s a storefront in the ground floor of a parking garage on Cherry Way between Forbes and…
Pagers and implementations and change management (oh my!) ConsultingERP Dec 2023
A couple weeks back, NPR’s Planet Money ran a phenomenal episode on organizational change management vis-a-vis paging systems at hospitals.…
Exploring USPS Ground Advantage Distribution Aug 2023
In July 2023, the US Postal Service announced a new addition to their lineup of shipping options, USPS Ground Advantage,…