I monitor my PC with Home Assistant, and it's a bigger deal than I realized
…Here is why connecting my PC to the smart home is a bigger deal than I thought. How I set it up Connecting my PC to my homelab in a simple way…
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I built my entire second brain inside VS Code and stopped switching apps entirely
…Dedicated apps often prioritize their ecosystem over your portability. Also, when I’m deep in a project, the last thing I want to do is navigate away from my workspace to log…
Forget Synology and DSM, this free NAS distro can revive old PCs as NAS servers
…In fact, it’s significantly easier to use than most distributions in the DIY NAS ecosystem, as I don’t have to deal with pool management options hidden within a labyrinth of…
I ditched OPNsense for UniFi, and the speed gain wasn't the real win
…And every newly added device in the ecosystem gets added to that dashboard, so I don't have to figure out which thing I'm signing in to. OPNsense is still great…
Home Assistant's ePaper ecosystem finally has an open standard worth building around
…OpenEpaperLink got the closest, but you were still flashing an access point, dealing with vendor-specific Arduino sketches in some instances, or writing your own ESPHome configuration and skipping a "standard" entirely…
I stopped paying monthly for productivity tools after finding these alternatives with one-time purchases
…It strikes that rare balance between a clean, minimalist interface and a feature set that’s robust enough for a power user like me who deals with constant technical documentation. What makes…
Proxmox gave me Home Assistant plus a NAS, media server, and backup system on one PC
João Carrasqueira Mar 30, 2026, 2:30 PM EDT João has been covering the tech world for over 7 years, with a heavy focus on laptops and the Windows ecosystem. I also…
Your soundbar won't talk to your TV, and manufacturers act like that's normal
…The messy reality is partly caused by complex ecosystems Multiple brands and standards create too many failure points To be fair, eARC does live inside a messy ecosystem. A television, a receiver…
I don't use Claude Code, but Anthropic's latest update just made my Pro plan worth keeping
…Then the SpaceX deal happened a couple of weeks later, and the changes that came with it weren't just Code-specific. The improvements extended into the parts of Pro I actually…
PlayStation's digital pricing got so bad that the $80 disc drive became my best purchase
…I can get myself a "good deal." Once you do experience such a level of control that simply doesn’t exist in a purely digital ecosystem, it’s very hard to go…