Hello, I'm Michael

Two years ago, I discovered Home Assistant and ESPHome as a foundation for IoT devices that aren’t terrible spyware. At the time I had the idea to replay the commands from the remote for my motorized blinds, to be able to open and close the blinds using Home Assistant. I... [Read More]

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As of 2022-08-30, ruby-i18n/i18n is the ninth most popular Ruby gem. [Read More]

CLDR defines several mechanisms for keys to inheriting values from other keys: [Read More]

I recently purchased a Genmitsu Sainsmart 3018 PROver CNC machine, with a GRBL v1.1 control board. I’ve spent more time then I’d care to admit on simple, silly things. So I’ll be documenting them here for my posterity. Hopefully this can help you on your CNC journey. [Read More]