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All the posts I’ve published, most recent first.

2026

Arlo Base Station Deep Dive: Battery Drain, Sniffed Data, and Router Config

20 August 2026·3446 words·17 mins· loading · loading

Fixing Arlo Camera Battery Life at the WiFi Layer

19 August 2026·2683 words·13 mins· loading · loading

Integrating Your Self-Hosted Arlo Stack with Home Assistant: Sensors, Automations and the Lovelace Dashboard

18 August 2026·6939 words·33 mins· loading · loading

Self-Hosting Arlo on Your Own Server: Stack, Patches and Lessons Learned

18 August 2026·5044 words·24 mins· loading · loading

Replacing the Arlo Base Station with a Netgear Orbi Router

18 August 2026·7067 words·34 mins· loading · loading

Migrating My Blog from Hashnode to Self-Hosted Hugo on Coolify

16 August 2026·3157 words·15 mins· loading · loading

Monitoring Your Water Softener Salt Level with Home Assistant

16 August 2026·594 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Home Assistant: Smart Cover Control Based on Temperature - 3 Years Later

16 August 2026·1099 words·6 mins· loading · loading

Two Years of Solar: The Real Numbers, the Real ROI

16 August 2026·3304 words·16 mins· loading · loading

12 panels, 3 micro-inverters, no battery — here is what the first 24 months actually produced, self-consumed, exported, and earned.

How I built gphoto2proton to migrate 354GB of Google Photos to Proton

1 August 2026·1454 words·7 mins· loading · loading

From Data Leak to Phishing Campaign

26 July 2026·2263 words·11 mins· loading · loading

The AI Orchestrator: Why Intelligent Delegation is the Missing Piece in Your AI Toolchain

28 June 2026·3209 words·16 mins· loading · loading

Lifting the Lid on Copilot's Black Box: Observability for LLM Code Generation

15 June 2026·2986 words·15 mins· loading · loading

Your AI Agent Deserves a Tool Harness, Not a Wild West

31 May 2026·2620 words·13 mins· loading · loading

The Hidden Tax on Every AI Request: How MCP Servers Are Draining Your Token Budget

5 May 2026·1342 words·7 mins· loading · loading

The Future of Agentic Tooling: MCP Servers vs. CLI A Data-Driven Comparison

27 April 2026·3840 words·19 mins· loading · loading

What is a Developer When We Use Coding Agents? My 1-Day BMAD Experiment

14 March 2026·1180 words·6 mins· loading · loading

Reverse-Engineering Hitachi's Cloud API with AI: From Browser DevTools to a Full Home Assistant Integration

25 February 2026·2251 words·11 mins· loading · loading

Reverse-Engineering Hitachi's Cloud API with AI: From Browser DevTools to a Full Home Assistant Integration

25 February 2026·2381 words·12 mins· loading · loading

How RAG Can Cut Your AI Coding Costs by 80%

17 January 2026·1455 words·7 mins· loading · loading

From Tools to Agents: The Evolution of Nexus-Dev

17 January 2026·1170 words·6 mins· loading · loading

Solving the MCP Tool Explosion: A Gateway Approach for AI Coding Agents

11 January 2026·960 words·5 mins· loading · loading

Stop Repeating Yourself to AI: How I Built a Local RAG System for Coding Assistants

11 January 2026·877 words·5 mins· loading · loading

Vibe Coding Custom Penetration Tests: When AI Becomes Your Security Partner

10 January 2026·1697 words·8 mins· loading · loading

Securing Python Code Execution: How We Protected Our Server from Untrusted Code

1 January 2026·2170 words·11 mins· loading · loading

2025

Behind the Scenes: The Admin Section of Cyber Code Academy

31 December 2025·2192 words·11 mins· loading · loading

Achieving Zero-Downtime Deployments on Coolify: A Journey from Monolith to Decoupled Architecture

30 December 2025·5925 words·28 mins· loading · loading

Building Cyber Code Academy: A "Pure Vibe Coding" Experiment

28 December 2025·681 words·4 mins· loading · loading

Seamlessly Automate Your Home with Hitachi Devices: A Custom Home Assistant Integration

26 January 2025·622 words·3 mins· loading · loading

2024

Integrating the Everblue Smart Water Meter with Home Assistant

30 April 2024·878 words·5 mins· loading · loading

2023

Home Assistant: motion sensor coupled with a switch

2 January 2023·713 words·4 mins· loading · loading

HomeAssistant: Close cover to control the home temperature

1 January 2023·942 words·5 mins· loading · loading

2022

Home Assistant: use ZigBee buttons to control other protocol devices

31 December 2022·722 words·4 mins· loading · loading

Home Assistant: simple "presence simulation" script

30 December 2022·697 words·4 mins· loading · loading

Home Assistant: control automation with Google Calendar

29 December 2022·434 words·3 mins· loading · loading

OpenVPN on Google WiFi via OpenWRT

28 November 2022·605 words·3 mins· loading · loading

InkPlate 10 Home Assistant Board

30 October 2022·519 words·3 mins· loading · loading

HomeAssistant: detect washing machine cycle completion

11 October 2022·661 words·4 mins· loading · loading

OnePlus 2 - Double SIM automatic selection

8 October 2022·319 words·2 mins· loading · loading

LG Watch R Review

8 October 2022·636 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Jawbone UP 24: Review

8 October 2022·646 words·4 mins· loading · loading

Nexus 7: restore to factory default

8 October 2022·221 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Connectors: Apple vs Samsung

8 October 2022·162 words·1 min· loading · loading

Smart Water Heater with Home Assistant and Shelly device

24 August 2022·608 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Smart VMC (Mechanical Ventilation System)

23 August 2022·1461 words·7 mins· loading · loading

Why we should use Property testing?

4 January 2022·1157 words·6 mins· loading · loading

2021

What Docker is for?

30 December 2021·735 words·4 mins· loading · loading

SRE or why IT practices changed?

30 December 2021·1334 words·7 mins· loading · loading

Professional Debugger

2 October 2021·838 words·4 mins· loading · loading

Build RPMs for a Git (Github) project with Jenkins

13 September 2021·254 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Build RPMs using Jenkins/Hudson

13 September 2021·478 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Lima-VM: docker-desktop alternative for MacOSX

5 September 2021·1159 words·6 mins· loading · loading

Upgrade ConBee2 Firmware in HassOS

2 May 2021·618 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Home Assistant with RPi4 - Improvements

24 April 2021·936 words·5 mins· loading · loading

2020

The (hard) job of IT engineers for dummies

11 November 2020·1940 words·10 mins· loading · loading

2018

Qubino ZMNHJD1 and Home Assistant installation

3 November 2018·743 words·4 mins· loading · loading

Install Z-Wave Plus Z-Stick GEN5 — Aeon Labs in Home Assistant (RPi version)

10 September 2018·703 words·4 mins· loading · loading

2017

Docker images and files chown

5 November 2017·841 words·4 mins· loading · loading

PushBullet notifications for Kerberos.io

26 September 2017·226 words·2 mins· loading · loading

How to update to Ghost 1.9.0 with Docker

22 September 2017·119 words·1 min· loading · loading

Docker GhostBlog Cloudinary: The New One for This Blog, and for You

16 September 2017·263 words·2 mins· loading · loading

New Official update for the Cloudinary Ghost Storage plugin

16 September 2017·348 words·2 mins· loading · loading

The new Ghost Blog base Docker

16 September 2017·199 words·1 min· loading · loading

Docker Ghost Blog Slim down

14 September 2017·402 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Docker Ghost Blog 1.5.0 released - New Migration feature

6 August 2017·198 words·1 min· loading · loading

DareBoost: Analyse your web pages performances and improve them

27 July 2017·319 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Disqus and Content Security Policy

27 July 2017·300 words·2 mins· loading · loading

2016

HTTP2 Some Basic tests to check if it is working on your website

9 October 2016·833 words·4 mins· loading · loading

SSH command line store for OSx and Linux like mRemote

8 October 2016·815 words·4 mins· loading · loading

DockerHub: automate your docker images build and push

3 September 2016·450 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Ghost: storage image module for Cloudinary

31 August 2016·374 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Docker: how to manage a multi site webserver

30 August 2016·493 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Ghost Blog: update made easy using a docker container

30 August 2016·462 words·3 mins· loading · loading

2015

OnePlus 2 - Double SIM and "Ask every time" bug - Workaround

21 November 2015·286 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Docker: RPM Builder Container

20 February 2015·961 words·5 mins· loading · loading

Galaxy Note 2 - Bluetooth frequently disconnects

5 February 2015·268 words·2 mins· loading · loading

2014

Ghost blog images to Cloudinary: Manual Script

10 October 2014·298 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Google Chrome 38: Wrong Display Scaling and blurred

9 October 2014·337 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Jawbone Customer Support: Jawbone UP24 replaced

8 October 2014·553 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Install CynogenMod 11 on Galaxy Note 2 N7100

26 September 2014·568 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Update Galaxy Note 2 to Official Android 4.4 with Heimdall

13 May 2014·488 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Install personal Jabber Server on CentOS using ejabberd

30 March 2014·207 words·1 min· loading · loading

Logio Puppet Modules: automatic installation

30 March 2014·225 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Migration Wordpress to Ghost: two weeks later

18 February 2014·62 words·1 min· loading · loading

Optimize Ghost for SEO - SiteMap generator

10 February 2014·403 words·2 mins· loading · loading

CentOS 6 as Apple TimeMachine Backup

8 February 2014·428 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Optimize Ghost for SEO - Keywords

8 February 2014·242 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Optimize Ghost for SEO - Page Title

8 February 2014·219 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Completed blog migration: from WordPress to Ghost

7 February 2014·88 words·1 min· loading · loading

Migrate from Wordpress to Ghost: How-To

7 February 2014·388 words·2 mins· loading · loading

OVH VPS SSH Broken Pipe (Timeout): How to keep alive

11 January 2014·163 words·1 min· loading · loading

2013

Galaxy Note 2 Official Android 4.3 ROM

23 December 2013·658 words·4 mins· loading · loading

Hurricane ROM - short review before changing it (again)

22 December 2013·271 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Hurricane ROM for Galaxy Note 2: Make it like the Note 3

10 December 2013·344 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Samsung CloudAgent disk usage

10 December 2013·145 words·1 min· loading · loading

GateOne, an HTML5 SSH shell on your browser

12 November 2013·443 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Speed up your Wordpress site with a cache system

12 November 2013·764 words·4 mins· loading · loading

Execute a dynamic MOTD scripts on Centos6

11 November 2013·557 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Personalize your bash with GIT/SVN and colors

10 November 2013·228 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Put your crypted backups on the cloud

4 November 2013·418 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Mount Hubic cloud disk on your local Linux

3 November 2013·406 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Wordpress + Nginx + php-fpm on OVH VPS

2 November 2013·1793 words·9 mins· loading · loading

Wordpress: load tests to check server performances

2 November 2013·488 words·3 mins· loading · loading

MCollective: Windows agents and facts

27 October 2013·118 words·1 min· loading · loading

How to build MCollective Windows package

26 October 2013·418 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Nexus 7: reinstall stock rom and re-lock boot loader

25 October 2013·252 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Mcollective 2.3.2 Windows Installer

24 October 2013·233 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Improve your Android battery life

12 September 2013·440 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Fiki: the file based Wiki

9 September 2013·353 words·2 mins· loading · loading

RaspberryPI: Motion and Noise detection

5 July 2013·770 words·4 mins· loading · loading

Script: How to backup Bluehost databases on your PCs

30 June 2013·313 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Maven: automatically create a version Class

20 June 2013·332 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Spring MVC: Database MessageSource fall back to properties file

13 June 2013·852 words·4 mins· loading · loading

MacBook Pro and SSD Disk Tips

3 June 2013·733 words·4 mins· loading · loading

Fedora 18: Can't Unlock the Screen

24 March 2013·272 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Update OpenELEC on RaspberryPI

27 February 2013·790 words·4 mins· loading · loading

AirDroid vs Kies Air: control your Android with your browser

15 January 2013·502 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Android talking with your Apple TV

14 January 2013·409 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Blog Annual Report: 76000 visits in 2012

14 January 2013·96 words·1 min· loading · loading

Cannot shutdown MacOSX: try changing TimeMachine settings

14 January 2013·145 words·1 min· loading · loading

2012

iPad1 slow down after iOS5 update: FIX

30 November 2012·271 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Django: automatically import sub-modules urls

6 November 2012·254 words·2 mins· loading · loading

KermIT WebUI: new version and the road to 2.0

26 October 2012·114 words·1 min· loading · loading

Chrome on iOS 6: After Tests

22 October 2012·261 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Samsung Set "Scan to PC" Button for Mac OSX

11 October 2012·265 words·2 mins· loading · loading

MCollective oVirt Agent

8 October 2012·201 words·1 min· loading · loading

Linux AirPrint Server for iOS6 Devices

21 September 2012·171 words·1 min· loading · loading

KermIT: New Filters and Dashboard

25 July 2012·192 words·1 min· loading · loading

KermIT: Dynamic Groups for Resources

24 July 2012·139 words·1 min· loading · loading

KermIT: Assign Puppet Classes to a Server Within the WebUI

19 July 2012·235 words·2 mins· loading · loading

OneAll Social Plugin for WordPress

10 July 2012·370 words·2 mins· ·

WordPress Online Backup

10 July 2012·382 words·2 mins· loading · loading

WordPress: Block Automatic User Creation in OneAll Social Plugin

10 July 2012·157 words·1 min· ·

BDayMe, extends your twitter account...

31 May 2012·217 words·2 mins· loading · loading

New website and videos for KermIT project

31 May 2012·58 words·1 min· loading · loading

Install Agilo Open for Trac 0.12 on BlueHost

25 May 2012·235 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Apache and mod_auth_openid on F16/Centos

22 May 2012·617 words·3 mins· loading · loading

MCollective 2.0 and Windows Client Installer

18 May 2012·164 words·1 min· loading · loading

Kermit: new videos documentation

15 May 2012·67 words·1 min· loading · loading

Add new machine to Heroku project

10 May 2012·129 words·1 min· loading · loading

Sync Others Google Calendar to Your iOS Device

9 May 2012·294 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Linux Airplay server using XBMC 11

5 April 2012·169 words·1 min· loading · loading

Shairport: Turn Your Linux into an AirPlay Speaker

21 March 2012·184 words·1 min· loading · loading

ePomodoro: user guide

8 March 2012·52 words·1 min· loading · loading

ePomodoro: version 1.0.4 on the Eclipse Marketplace

7 March 2012·128 words·1 min· loading · loading

ePomodoro: update site

5 March 2012·77 words·1 min· loading · loading

ePomodoro: updates. Version 1.0.3

1 March 2012·86 words·1 min· loading · loading

ePomodoro: completed version 1.0

25 February 2012·119 words·1 min· loading · loading

ePomodoro: Eclipse Plugin for Pomodoro Technique with Team Communication

25 February 2012·245 words·2 mins· loading · loading

PC Monitor: control your computer from everywhere and with any device

17 February 2012·156 words·1 min· loading · loading

KermIT: a WebUI for MCollective

28 January 2012·523 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Trac 0.12 on BlueHost with Python 2.7

12 January 2012·384 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Onswipe: Wordpress iPad theme

2 January 2012·210 words·1 min· loading · loading

2011

Install Hubot as IRC channel bot

20 December 2011·1180 words·6 mins· loading · loading

Fedora Utils: tweaks for your preferred distro

18 December 2011·132 words·1 min· loading · loading

Fedora 16 boot problem after install

29 November 2011·278 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Install Python 2.7 on BlueHost

29 November 2011·306 words·2 mins· loading · loading

VirtualBox Linux: DKMS module build problems

28 November 2011·184 words·1 min· loading · loading

XChat2 script: post to Twitter

4 October 2011·554 words·3 mins· loading · loading

XChat2 script: post to Twitter

4 October 2011·560 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Linux as AirPrint server

27 September 2011·382 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Install Gitweb on your host

15 September 2011·597 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Create Git repository on shared host

14 September 2011·328 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Install Trac 0.12 on Shared Hosting

5 September 2011·901 words·5 mins· loading · loading

Install Django in a Shared Hosting Environment

1 September 2011·464 words·3 mins· loading · loading

GitHub pull and certificate verification failed

31 August 2011·147 words·1 min· loading · loading

Bluehost.com and Python 2.6

30 August 2011·185 words·1 min· loading · loading

2009

Java Applet used to print over Serial Port

9 February 2009·817 words·4 mins· loading · loading

Symbolic v1.2.1

8 January 2009·109 words·1 min· loading · loading

2008

Google Developer Day 2008 - Milan

22 October 2008·885 words·5 mins· loading · loading

Grails - Dynamic Plugins - Isolated Classloader

29 July 2008·400 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Grails - Dynamic Plugins for your applications

25 July 2008·774 words·4 mins· loading · loading

Symbolic - Operations Runner

23 July 2008·306 words·2 mins· loading · loading

What are symbolic operations?

23 July 2008·298 words·2 mins· loading · loading

Symbolic: Synchronous Operation Pool

22 July 2008·450 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Generate a simple tree-menu in Grails

21 July 2008·392 words·2 mins· ·

Symbolic - Scripts Runner

21 July 2008·484 words·3 mins· loading · loading

Well-Formed Symbolic Script

21 July 2008·520 words·3 mins· loading · loading

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