We’re doing a kitchen & bathrooms renovation, and the construction is generating a lot of dust, to the point that I was changing the HVAC filter twice a week. I wanted to see just how much garbage is in the air, so I started looking around for air quality sensors. Naturally I wanted one that I could integrate into my Home Assistant so I could generate notifications if the air was extra filthy. ...

Released version 0.8.0 of ha-mqtt-discoverable and version 0.2.0 of ha-mqtt-discoverable-cli today. ...

I’ve been backing my homelab up with duplicacy (See Backing Up the Cluster Using Duplicacy), but I’m fed up with it returning a 0 exit code even if there’s a problem with the backup. This makes me have to do a lot of annoying rummaging through log output to be sure that a backup actually worked, so I decided to switch to restic. In this blog entry, I’m going to explain how to create a jail in TrueNAS, mount directories you want to back up into the jail, install restic, and how to use it to back up to Backblaze b2....

I considered a switch to the Congo theme for Hugo. The one thing I didn’t like in it was the way it handles inline backticks - it displays them, in addition to formatting the enclosed text as code. To fix it, create assets/css/custom.css with the following contents: .prose code::before { content: '' } .prose code::after { content: '' }

I’m moving from Twitter to Mastodon. Specifically, I’m @unixorn@hachyderm.io. Here are my first impressions. ...