This year, I enrolled in a three-month ham radio course to get my ham radio license and be able to transmit and talk with the folks. The course is divided into five steps, one of which is Morse Code, or CW, in the amateur radio jargon. Practicing some Morse code...

Living in a two-floor apartment has many good things and some bad things. And I assure you, trying to walk between the stairs semi-asleep in total darkness on an early winter morning is one of the worst. Follow me on my journey of automating as many things as I can...

Yubikey is a great security product. They are also very reliable. My first Yubikey is still working and has been in service for almost ten years. In addition to their capabilities of hardware-based second-factor authentication, they can also be used to sign in servers with SSH. In this post, I...

A few weeks ago, a friend reminded me of the simplicity and capacity of Home Assistant as a home automation framework. While I’m not reticent to changes, most of my home automation goes through Apple HomeKit, and I’m somewhat happy with it. However, HomeKit leans on the basic side. Let’s...

I’ve been investigating those generic WiFi AC power meters for the last few months, like this one. I’m not entirely happy about connecting third-party stuff to my local network. Even though I have a separate VLAN for IoT, it’s weird to install someone else’s hardware with god knows what kind...