PinnedAutonomous thingZ (autonomousthingz.life)Home Grown Home Automation — Significant StepsSo one of the goals set out last time was to “Make Home Assistant setup more robust for multiple seasons. Make it more inviting for family…Sep 27, 2021Sep 27, 2021
PinnedAutonomous thingZ (autonomousthingz.life)Home Grown Home Automation — Getting StartedIt turned out much easier than I had originally imagined. Just needed to assemble the pieces of the puzzle. And while I waited a few…Aug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021
Autonomous thingZ (autonomousthingz.life)Smart Down lights — Deta Price but Hue ExperienceRecently we set out to replace the 51 odd year old chandelier in our main family room with a fan and a set of down lights. Of course, that…Apr 12Apr 12
Autonomous thingZ (autonomousthingz.life)IoT Sensors as enabler for Deep Machine LearningWhy are ChatGPTs or Geminis or Meta or Perplexity chatbots abuzz today and could not have been so a few years back? Well, there are 3 key…Apr 1Apr 1
Autonomous thingZ (autonomousthingz.life)Many thanks for this keycloak bootstrap article, newish to keycloak.Are you able to help diagnose? Can send container logs once I have a better way of communicating with you!Aug 7, 20221Aug 7, 20221
Autonomous thingZ (autonomousthingz.life)Google Cloud Organisation Policies — Get the “Restrict VPC Peering Usage” Organisation Policy…Google Cloud has a very useful resource governance feature — the Organisation Policy Service which gives you centralised and programmatic…Feb 24, 2020Feb 24, 2020
Autonomous thingZ (autonomousthingz.life)Olly — Running Custom Fluentd configuration inside GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)Have you ever been on a polyglot microservices project where all the cowboy application developers from the many varied agile teams have…Sep 17, 2019Sep 17, 2019
Autonomous thingZ (autonomousthingz.life)The IT MafiaOuch. My first article on this ever gaining popularity ‘medium’ is not about the good stuff I get to do at work, like learning to manage…Jan 17, 2019Jan 17, 2019