Why I Built SwitchDesk, a Go Control Panel for My Aruba Switches
SwitchDesk is a free, open source app for Mac and Windows that reads every Aruba switch over SSH and shows what's down, what's...
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Stopping PHP2Shell with AWS WAF
Two critical PHP bugs (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) let anyone run code on a PHP server without logging in. Here's how I put AWS...
Cloudflare Already Blocks PHP2Shell. Is It Protecting You?
Cloudflare pushed PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) rules to every plan before the advisory went public. Nothing to build, but...
Watching 12 HPE Servers in Grafana With My Own iLO Exporter
I wrote a small open source Prometheus exporter for HPE iLO 4, 5 and 6. It reads server health over Redfish, runs in Docker and comes with...
Ingress NGINX Is Retired: A Tested Migration to Gateway API with Envoy Gateway
Ingress NGINX was retired in March 2026. I migrated a test cluster to Gateway API with ingress2gateway and Envoy Gateway, and found what...
Clip-On Thermometers for My Heating Manifold
Four DS18B20 probes in 3D-printed clips on my heating manifold's pipes, an ESP32 running ESPHome, and flow/return temperatures per circuit...
Making My Pergola a Bit Smart: ESP32, CC1101 and ESPHome
My Chinese louvered pergola only had a 433 MHz remote. I sniffed its codes with an ESP32 and CC1101 and put the louvers and light into Home...
CopyTo: A Real-Time Shared Clipboard on Cloudflare Workers
A tiny real-time shared clipboard: open one page on two devices, type on one and it shows up on the other instantly, built serverless on...
Getting Huawei FusionSolar Data into Prometheus and Grafana Without the Northbound API
I wrote an open source Prometheus exporter for Huawei FusionSolar. No Northbound API account needed, just a normal portal login and...
Rain-Aware Seasonal Watering in Home Assistant
How my garden irrigation went from a dumb timer to a weather check that never worked, and finally to a seasonal, rain-aware Home Assistant...
A 3D-Printed Radio Mount for My Jeep's MOLLE Panel
Why I run handheld radios when I wheel with a team, and the 3D-printed Baofeng holder I designed for the MOLLE panel in my Wrangler. Free...
Vaillant Boiler, Part 2: Designing a Heating Dashboard in Home Assistant
Part 2 of my Vaillant EcoCompact project: a Home Assistant heating dashboard with boiler gauges, gas usage from eBUS counters and ten...
Tesla Won't Route You in Georgia, So I Built Navigation That Does
Tesla's navigation has no routing in Georgia. I built a map for the car browser: OSRM routing, 3D terrain, voice guidance and Google Maps...
Gaining Root Access on a Xiaomi Camera
My Xiaomi camera's UART RX pad was dead, so I dumped and rewrote its SPI flash with an ESP32 to get a root shell. Full wiring, sketch and...
A DIY Meshtastic Node for My Jeep: ESP32, a 433 MHz LoRa Module and a Printed Case
I built a Meshtastic node from an ESP32, an SX1278 LoRa module and a NEO-6M GPS, wired into my Jeep's 12V system, with the headless...
Making a Cheap “TV LED Strip” a Proper Smart Server Rack Light (ESPHome + Home Assistant)
Turn a cheap Bluetooth TV LED strip into a real Home Assistant light with ESPHome. Full YAML, the 9-byte BLE packet format, and why LED BLE...
Making My Vaillant EcoCompact Boiler Smart with eBUSd and Home Assistant
Read live flow temperature, burner modulation and pressure from a Vaillant EcoCompact VSC266 in Home Assistant using an eBUS adapter, ebusd...