KOReader plus an LLM turned my old Kindle into my favorite reader
I have a Kindle 4 that was obsolete when the Obama administration was still young. The battery is shot, the bezels are thick, and it does not have a touchscreen. I have…
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I stopped opening ports to reach my smart home and you should too
My Home Assistant install used to live behind a port forward on my router. So did my NAS, my printer, and a long-forgotten Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole. Every one of those was…
I ditched Alexa for a bedside briefing box, fully offline
I have been trying to replace my Alexa morning briefing for two years. The Alexa one was fine for weather and the BBC, but the headline mix was wrong. Too many stories…
Seven viral ChatGPT image prompts, ranked by what holds up
I spent a weekend running the most-shared ChatGPT image prompts against GPT Image 2 (OpenAI’s current flagship image model, released earlier in 2026) and found something the viral posts leave out. About…
A dead iPad, a Raspberry Pi, and a security monitor that pulls weight
I had a stack of old iPads collecting dust. Some had cracked screens, some were too old to install modern apps, and none of them were useful enough to sell. The hardware…
FOSS Weekly: the Linux stories from week 26 worth your time
This is the week that Brave decided to give Linux users a free browser that costs $59.99 for everyone else, Canonical remembered that ARM64 servers exist, and a small tiling window manager…
I Started Using This Home Assistant Add-on To Help Me Sleep (And It Actually Worked)
I Started Using This Home Assistant Add-on To Help Me Sleep (And It Actually Worked) I went through three sleep apps before I found one that stuck. The first was a phone-only…
I Built a Family Dashboard (The Honest Engineering Writeup)
I Built a Family Dashboard (The Honest Engineering Writeup) Six months ago I published a piece about my e-paper family dashboard. Since then, three things happened. The build was adopted by 4…