Author: sjwillis
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Open Outlook for iOS to Calendar
iOS Users: Sharing this iOS shortcut despite its very limited use case. My dog has a longer/better attention span than I do. As a result, whenever I open Outlook on my iPhone to check my calendar, I immediately get distracted by whatever emails are at the top of my inbox and forget that I was…
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Friendly warning for new users of #linkding. RTFM. This little gem is buried in the instructions: “Note that the command above will store the linkding SQLite database in the container, which means that deleting the container, for example when upgrading the installation, will also remove the database. For hosting an actual installation you usually want…
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Mentioning here how helpful the native Mac OS app Yate is for cleaning up FLAC tags. The “Mickey Hart” mix versions of Workingman’s were intermingled with the original album release and Yate was the right tool for the job to rename the album to Workingman’s Dead (Mickey Hart Mix). https://2manyrobots.com/yate/ Also on: website
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Stereo HomePod Pair in Music Assistant
Took me a little while to get this sorted out so I thought I’d document it here: Music Assistant supports grouping speakers so, briefly put what you’re doing here is just creating a group with two HomePods, one playing the left channel, the other the right channel. Key here is configuring the individual HomePods to…
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Tailscale, iOS, self-hosting and Home Assistant
It feels like magic to have no open ports on my router and still be able to access all of myself hosted services. Jotting down a few notes here on how I approached this. First off, my primary server that I self-host all of my services on is always running a VPN so I don’t…
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“The Christmas lights won’t turn on, better power cycle the server.” Filed under: Sentences Unfamiliar to Thoreau.#homeassistant Also on: website
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Hard to imagine how long finding this answer would have taken before perplexity.ai: “I have an ecobee 3 lite and an aquastatic, 2 taco valve boiler– Can I use the ecobee to control one of the valves and my old thermostat for the other valve?” Also on: website
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A PSA/reminder to self: Linode makes it SUPER easy and fast to increase the size of your server with no downtime but when you want to scale it back down, you have to first resize your disk (down) and then resize the linode box which requires bringing it down completely. Also on: website
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Personal Tech/Self-hosted wins.
A few weeks ago I worked with Claude.ai to generate some journaling prompts that were unique to me and my goals. It’s made for some great journaling this month so far. Today’s prompt and response is one worth sharing as I think it’s something a lot of folks like me would benefit from thinking about…
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Specific Post Category Sharing to Mastodon from WordPress
I added this snippet which seemed to do the trick of only sharing WordPress posts categorized as “Status” up to Mastodon. The rest I’ll share manually