Home Assistant Gear: Hardware, Automations and Buying Notes
The Bear Stone gear list puts the hardware beside the Home Assistant automations it powers. Pick a project, read the walkthrough, and check the buying notes before ordering…
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MCPs in My Homelab: Turning Codex Into a Real Ops + Dev Copilot
I spent a couple sessions wiring up MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers in my homelab so Codex can stop guessing and start verifying: live Home Assistant entities, real…
WordPress 6.0 is here
Wordpress 6.0 Here is EVERYTHING that is new with WordPress 6.0! Ok. Maybe not EVERYTHING. The WordPress 6.0 update shipped with over 500 Enhancements and 400 bug fixes!…
SOLVED – ‘Error establishing a database connection’
If you are a regular reader of the blog, you might have experienced an intermittent error where you are shown the following error: 'Error establishing a database connection' …
PSA: Protect your WordPress Site
I have woken up before and NOT found my website and have been horrified! This is what I thought of when I saw a fellow creator's tweet about…
How to increase the root space on my AWS Hosted WordPress site
I have battled Out of Space errors before on my Pi-Hole, VMware and other systems in my career but this was the first time I had to resolve…
Static IP addresses for Amazon Web Services instances
This very blog you are reading right now is running on a t2.micro instance in the Amazon Web Services Cloud. The T2 micro instances are some of the…
How to optimize WordPress images for SPEED using WEBP
Today, I am compressing all of the images on this website. Hopefully after compressing, you will see that the pages are loading a bit faster. I had on…
My Site has gone down for the SECOND time (and hopefully the last!)
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will remember that a while ago, I switched over to WordPress on AWS. The transition has been smooth…