Date-scoped views on a todo list, with a sensible default
I migrated from Todoist to my own todo app a few weeks ago. The single biggest thing I missed: Todoist's Today / Upcoming views. So I built them.
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When a ThinkPad disappears from the LAN after a NIC swap
Swapped a USB-to-Ethernet adapter on a ThinkPad to fix a flaky link. After the swap, the laptop dropped off the network entirely. No reservation hit in…
Read →Tightening Radarr quality profiles to stop Emby transcode lag
Avengers playback was crawling on Emby. Not network, not the client — the Synology CPU was pinned, fan howling, every play.
Read →qBittorrent was deleting files before Sonarr could import them
Sonarr's queue kept stalling. Episodes would show up as grabbed, sit in the queue, and then quietly fail to import. Re-grabbing the same release didn't…
Read →My per-todo chat was a toy LLM in a tool-capable house
My web todo app has a little chat button on every todo row. The idea: open a todo, ask the assistant
Read →Migrating from Todoist with an idempotent import
Migrated all my active Todoist tasks into my own todo backend. 27 tasks across 6 categories (birthdays, bills, dev backlog, groceries, issues for a…
Read →How to survive AWS toll-free SMS registration
A toll-free SMS number for a personal safety project I run took several denial cycles before AWS approved it. The denials were all about wording in the…
Read →Throttling doorbell notifications to the ones that matter
I rolled out face-recognition notifications on my front-door doorbell and got spammed with hundreds of pushes in a few hours. I killed the cron, audited…
Read →Door unlock on iPhone SOS when Apple won't expose the event
I wanted my front door to unlock automatically when my iPhone or Watch triggered Emergency SOS or Fall Detection. The catch is that Apple does not expose…
Read →Ring IR mode breaks face-distance thresholds
I have a small face-identification pipeline running against snapshots from my doorbell. It uses a fixed distance threshold to decide whether a face…
Read →qBittorrent's auto-remove racing arr imports
Symptoms looked like the same old
Read →Hyper Backup stuck in a scan loop over live LXC subvolumes
My Synology Hyper Backup job to Google Drive kept restarting and never finishing. It would run for hours, get most of the way through the scan, then bail…
Read →A $25 bed occupancy sensor for Home Assistant
I wanted Home Assistant to know whether the bed was occupied, and by whom, so it could drive lighting, HVAC setbacks, and a few
Read →Backfilling Signal history that the server doesn't have
I wanted my homelab assistant to have access to my Signal history the same way it has my iMessage and email. Signal's whole point is that the server…
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