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May 27, 2026

Grouping Lights in Home Assistant

How to group color lights in Home Assistant using Helpers — and why the old YAML platform approach stopped working in 2026.5.

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May 19, 2026

Tripsy Now Has a CLI (and an MCP)

Tripsy released an official CLI and MCP server in May 2026. The CLI is the better tool. Everything I documented for the SQLite approach is now unnecessary.

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May 18, 2026

Self-Hosting Papra with Docker Compose on a NAS

Papra is a self-hosted document manager that installs cleanly — except for a silent SQLite permissions failure that breaks registration with no useful error.

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May 15, 2026 Fitbit Air: The Apple Watch I Actually Wear to Bed

Fitbit Air: The Apple Watch I Actually Wear to Bed

I ordered a Google Fitbit Air to track sleep. The Apple Watch stays on the nightstand.

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April 30, 2026

How to Connect Hermes Agent to Home Assistant

Two environment variables and a gateway restart. I said 'turn off all my lights' and they went off two seconds later.

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April 29, 2026 How to Run Hermes Agent on a UGREEN NAS with Docker

How to Run Hermes Agent on a UGREEN NAS with Docker

Step-by-step setup for Hermes Agent on a UGREEN NAS using Docker, including the permissions fix that breaks the install silently if you skip it.

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April 22, 2026

Your Linter Needs to Be as Fast as Your AI

AI writes code faster than you can review it. ESLint validates slower than it needs to. Biome fixes the mismatch.

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March 22, 2026

Reading and Writing Tripsy's SQLite Database on macOS

Tripsy stores all your trip data in a local SQLite file that iCloud syncs to your Mac. The file is already on your disk — no export needed.

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February 2, 2026

Why Adobe Animate's Flash-to-HTML5 Bridge Failed

Adobe Animate kept the Flash timeline alive for HTML5, but the web moved on. Maintenance mode confirms the bridge could not hold.

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January 21, 2026

Getting a DBA in San Francisco: The Real Process and Costs

I just registered a DBA (Doing Business As) in San Francisco. The official instructions were confusing, so here's what actually happened.

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