Recent Posts
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Bringing Home Automation Back Home
I’m a big fan of automation. Repetitive tasks annoy me and I try to find the best way to optimize activities. Earlier this year when Google Home rolled out custom routines, a weird behavior involving lights and routines prevented me from syncing m...
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Improving Jekyll in 2017
When I took a look at my website last year, it needed help. There wasn’t a whole lot wrong, but there definitely were areas that needed improvement. For starters, I wasn’t testing anything (don’t judge me). How would I test things? By overkilling ...
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Backing Up Android Nougat Easter Egg Cats (No Root)
Every major release of Android in the past couple years has received Google’s Easter Egg treatment. They like to sneak in wallpapers, silly animations, or a fun little game. With the release of Android Nougat (7.0.0), the Easter Egg ended up resem...
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Fixing 'No Google Profile for Contact'
If you’re around me enough, you learn that I love to use voice commands. I’ve been known to walk into a room and shout “okay Google” hoping to hear a device accepting my query. Since early 2015, people have been able to use Google Now to send Hang...
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Preventing Windows Apps from Broadcasting a Taskbar Notification
A few weeks ago a Windows application on my computer was broadcasting notifications that I did not care for. I have an application that communicates with my uninterruptible power supply to shut down my machine in the event of a power outage after ...