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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Papra Was Running. SQLite Still Couldn't Write.
Papra looked healthy on my NAS while registration failed. The browser hid the useful detail: SQLite belonged to the wrong user.
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.
SwiftUI Toolbar Placement Is Intent, Not Coordinates
I tested SwiftUI toolbar placement, grouping, search, and overflow on iPhone and iPad. The useful mental model is intent—not fixed screen coordinates.
What SwiftUI's Tab APIs Actually Do
I rebuilt SwiftUI's TabView examples to separate the iOS 18 navigation APIs from the iOS 26 Liquid Glass redesign—and to see where the system takes control.
Building HTML5 Components for Adobe Animate CC
Adobe barely documented custom HTML5 components in Animate CC, so I worked backward from its built-in Video component.
Bash on Ubuntu on Windows: What Works and What Doesn't
Microsoft added Ubuntu's Bash to Windows. I tested it for real work and hit some rough edges.
Running PHP 5.6 with Apache on El Capitan
The Apache module path was the easy-to-miss part of running Homebrew's PHP 5.6 on macOS El Capitan. Here is the full setup.
Understanding CORS: Basic vs. Preflight Requests
CORS failures that look unrelated often come down to request type, duplicate headers, or credentials. Here is how the browser treats each case.
Upgrading WordPress to PHP 7: Configuration Changes
Ubuntu 16.04 ships with PHP 7, which broke my WordPress. Here's how to upgrade PHP config and point nginx to the new php-fpm socket.
Setting Up CORS Vary-Origin Headers in AWS S3
The exact S3 CORS configuration I used to make responses vary by origin instead of letting a CDN cache the wrong header.
Using UglifyJS's screw-ie8 Option in Gulp
Once I stopped supporting IE8, UglifyJS still emitted compatibility code for it. This Gulp option switched those workarounds off.
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