A tiny garden sprinkler watcher that only texts when it matters
I turned the garden sprinkler off because rain was forecast for a week. The question is: when do I turn it back on? I do not want to check a weather app…
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10 posts tagged automation.
UI Automation beat my screenshot loop by 17x
I had built a Windows desktop agent around the obvious loop: take a screenshot, send the PNG to a vision LLM, ask where to click, click it, repeat. It…
Read →Turning years of screenshots into a searchable journal
I have a Mac screenshots folder with thousands of files. Most of them are chat conversations — iMessage, Signal, Teams, email — captured because I wanted…
Read →Driving a Windows VM install with qm sendkey
I needed to slipstream a Windows 11 install across a handful of VMs on Proxmox without sitting in front of a noVNC window pressing Enter for an hour. The…
Read →Spoken morning briefing on an Echo, without writing a skill
I wanted a JARVIS-style morning briefing — calendar, weather, finances, todos, the day's notable anniversaries — spoken out loud on the Echo Studio in…
Read →A JARVIS-voiced morning briefing on the Echo Studio
I wanted something to talk at me when I get up — weather, todos, the date, sober days, mortgage-due reminder, homelab status. Not when an alarm fires…
Read →Slipstreaming SSH into a PXE-booted Windows install
PXE booting a Windows 11 install is fine; getting a freshly installed VM to accept SSH from my homelab without me touching it is the actual interesting…
Read →Workspace permission denied when SCP'ing from automation runner
I have a small homelab automation runner that orchestrates jobs across a handful of remote machines. New job, new bug: SCP transfers from the runner to a…
Read →Producing an audiobook with Kokoro on a Mac mini
I wrote a thriller novel. I wanted an audiobook of it. The traditional path is ACX with a human narrator, six to twelve months and a few thousand…
Read →Reverse engineering a Bluetooth-only irrigation controller
I have an Orbit B-hyve XD irrigation controller. It's Bluetooth-only — no Wi-Fi hub built in. Every existing integration (Home Assistant, pybhyve…
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