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…5 min read·Sep 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…4 min read·Aug 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…4 min read·Apr 12, 2024----
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…3 min read·Apr 1, 2024----
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!1 min read·Aug 7, 2022--1--1
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…4 min read·Feb 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…4 min read·Sep 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…4 min read·Jan 17, 2019----