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How I host this site

My site isn’t anything special, but I thought I’d like to share how I create and host things for others who may be interested in sharing their own words with a very simple and easy to maintain stru...

Home Assistant medication notification using Node-RED

For around 4 years I have had to take medication for Rheumatoid Arthritis once every two weeks, I always forget when I last took the medication and end up skipping which causes me pain. Due to thi...

Creating a standalone zigbee2mqtt hub with alpine linux

I have began sorting out my smart home again, I let it run to ruin a year or so ago and now I’m getting solar installed I wanted to increase my automation to make life easier and utilise my solar m...

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Configuring Homer Dashboard

In my last article I talked about how to setup Homer dashboard with Docker, now I will walk through some of the features and how to use them. Main Features Some of Homers main features are: Y...

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Homer dashboard with Docker

Recently I have decided to get my home network in order, One of the things I realised was that I spend a lot of time trying to remember the IP addresses or URLs for services within my home, especia...

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Proxmox Template with Cloud Image and Cloud Init

Updated to latest Ubuntu image & Added enable for qemu service Using Cloud images and Cloud init with Proxmox is the quickest, most efficient way to deploy servers at this time. Cloud imag...

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Type hinting and checking in Python

Type hinting is a formal solution that statically indicates the type of a value within your Python code. Specified by PEP 484 and then introduced to Python 3.5. Type hints help to structure your p...

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Creating the perfect Python project

Working on a new project its always exciting to jump straight in and get coding without any setup time. However spending a small amount of time to setup the project with the best tools and practice...

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Cookiecutter: Automate project creation!

As I move closer to the world of development within my career I have been looking for more efficient ways to spend my time, along with assisting my colleagues and myself follow the programming, doc...

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Sqitch, Sensible database change management

Overview Recently I have been working on a few projects that utilise PostgreSQL databases, as the projects have grown our team has found it increasingly more difficult to manage all of the databas...