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June 4, 2026 How I Turned My Security Cameras Into an Automatic Bird Identification System with BirdNet-Go Feature image
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How I Turned My Security Cameras Into an Automatic Bird Identification System with BirdNet-Go

I turned three security cameras into an automatic bird identification system using BirdNet-Go. Now my wife and I can track every bird species that visits our yard in real-time.

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May 28, 2026 Podcasts I'm listening to 2026 edition Feature image
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Podcasts I'm listening to 2026 edition

What I'm listening to on the daily in 2026 between audiobooks

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May 27, 2026 Automating My YouTube Watch Queue with Google Apps Script Feature image
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Automating My YouTube Watch Queue with Google Apps Script

Google Apps Script + the YouTube Data API + a Google Sheet = a fully automated personal watch queue that runs itself. Here's how it works.

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May 26, 2026 Automating Our Sunday Night YouTube Routine with Youtarr (and Why I'm Probably Over-Engineering This) Feature image
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Automating Our Sunday Night YouTube Routine with Youtarr (and Why I'm Probably Over-Engineering This)

I automated our Sunday night YouTube watching with Youtarr, because apparently managing a Google Sheet wasn't complicated enough. Now to see if I actually improved anything.

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May 26, 2026 Why I Ditched Heimdall and Homepage for a Custom Docker Container Launcher Feature image
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Why I Ditched Heimdall and Homepage for a Custom Docker Container Launcher

I built my own launcher for docker containers because Heimdall and Homepage didn't quite fit. Here's why rolling my own dashboard was worth it.

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April 25, 2026 iPhone with PlexAmp running on it playing Blood Orange feat Mabe Fratti & Mustafa - I Can Go
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Explo: Self-Hosted Discover Weekly for Your Music Library

I've been self-hosting my music library for a while, but discovery was always the missing piece. Explo fixes that by turning your ListenBrainz listening history into an automatic Discover Weekly playlist right inside Plex.

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February 4, 2026 Sonoff iFan04 and Ikea Bilresa Dual Button Remote
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Teaching an old fan new tricks

How I replaced the controller in my old ceiling fan giving it new life in my smart home

home-automation diy
January 4, 2026 Seeing Games as They Were Meant to Be Seen: My Graphics Card Upgrade Journey Feature image
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Seeing Games as They Were Meant to Be Seen: My Graphics Card Upgrade Journey

Rediscovering my Steam library one ray-traced reflection at a time

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January 4, 2026 Optimizing BIOS Settings for My New AMD RX 9070 XT GPU Upgrade Feature image
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Optimizing BIOS Settings for My New AMD RX 9070 XT GPU Upgrade

Maximizing performance from my new RX 9070 XT with proper BIOS configuration

gaming
October 1, 2025 Fixing a Corrupted Plex Database (Unraid, Docker, or Bare Metal) Feature image
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Fixing a Corrupted Plex Database (Unraid, Docker, or Bare Metal)

Fix a corrupted Plex database on Unraid, Docker, or bare metal with PlexDBRepair. Step-by-step guide to stop Plex, repair, and restart.

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October 1, 2025 Build a WikiDocs snapshot of an Unraid server dynamically Feature image
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Build a WikiDocs snapshot of an Unraid server dynamically

How I built a script that snapshots my Unraid box (hardware, disks, shares, Docker, etc.) and publishes it as pretty Markdown pages in WikiDocs.

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September 10, 2025 Stupid Plex Feature image
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Stupid Plex

Forced password resets and logging out all your devices and losing server access

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