I built an ESP32 display to stop obsessing over my NAS drive temperatures
…Related I added an open‑source ESP32 dashboard to my Home Assistant setup, and I'm glad I did It's a customizable display that can fit practically anywhere in my smart…
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I set up Antigravity the way Google itself recommends, and it stopped forgetting everything between sessions
…So I'm not talking about third-party tutorials here, but the official Antigravity pages, which lay out six customization surfaces under one panel. Two of them fixed the forgetfulness problem for…
I ditched three subscription services with a $15 Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, and my setup is bulletproof
…The tools will run on top of it, which brings the total to 150–170 MB, still leaving more than 50% memory free (415MB total) for adding other tools, deploying dashboards like…
3 things Obsidian can do that no other productivity tool can
…The customization goes far beyond features, too. With themes, snippets, and custom CSS, I can change almost every visual element in my vault, from accent colors and typography to the spacing of…
Someone installed an e-ink stat display in their PC, and it looks gorgeous
…They don't update very often, but that just makes them perfect for status displays and dashboards. And they use so little power that you barely notice them on your energy bill…
Claude is good, but connecting it to the right tools is what makes it worth paying for
…Simply click the Customize button on the sidebar, then click Connectors . From there, hit the plus (+) icon, and you'll see two options: Browse connectors and Add custom connector . If you want…
I thought self-hosting would make software less convenient, but the opposite happened
…Meanwhile, a solution like Glance is extremely customizable thanks to its self-hosted nature. I even set up an app to track items around my home so I wouldn't keep forgetting…
Network segmentation is the smart home security step nobody talks about
…Then come the pairing steps for several Bluetooth and Matter devices, flashing custom firmware on ESP32 boards to build Bluetooth proxies , and a dozen other smart devices. You have gone out of…
I ditched half my Obsidian plugins and my vault actually got better
…One plugin would update and break my custom dashboard, or another would stop syncing because it didn’t play nice with a new folder structure. Instead of sitting down to write, I…
I turned my old Android Phone into a dashcam, and it works better than the real thing
…Why an old Android phone can outperform a dashboard All the same features, better hardware to boot Part of the reason I didn't buy a dash cam was that even affordable…