If you have read my previous posts; you might know I am currently working on a new project to move some services to a self-hosted solution. As part of this, I have been working on dealing with unicode characters in regex.
In relation to this I have found that I am writing the same function repeatedly. The only difference being the number matches being returned. So I decided we need to refactor this.
[Read More]As part of my project Self Hosted Zapier Alternative; I am having to deal with doing regex searches against the three Japanese written forms, Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana.
[Read More]Living in Japan we generally default to using LINE for our messaging needs. At the time of this writing there is no integration for LINE within Home Assistant. Currently I use PushOver for some of my Home Assistant notifications. I also use Zapier with email to trigger notifications to my family LINE group. You can see how I did this here and here.
[Read More]I was looking into updating a couple of my perl modules because rt.cpan.org is being sunset early in 2021. As part of this I thought it was time to stop cpan testers from testing my module under Windows since it is currently not really supported.
I was not sure how to go about doing this, so I reached out the good people in the “Perl Programmers” group on FaceBook. I got some great links and suggestions. In order to make this easy for me to find. I am documenting some of them here.
[Read More]I recently went through the process of upgrading my raspberry Pis from Stretch to Buster. I had previously done this moving from Jessie.
Whilst I had no real issues with task following the guides that I found. I did discover one thing that concerned me, and was missing from the guides.
After upgrading to Buster, my /boot had less than 200kb of free storage.
I did some reading and found that Buster seems to need a lot more space in /boot than for previous releases. Buster itself now defaults to 256M of space for /boot
So I went about solving this issue.
I would suggest that you do these steps before upgrading just to avoid any possible problems.
[Read More]I have been running Home Assistant for a while. Things are going well. But I have had some issues with presence detection using the standard device_tracker component. Though I live in a small place, being in Tokyo, Home Assistant sometimes stops detecting phones if they are in an area of the apartment a little away from the Home Assistant server. This I suspect is due to the position of the Raspberry Pi and the building material.
[Read More]I wanted to be able to publish a new post that has already been written at a future date, without needing to manually publish the article.
[Read More]I was researching ways of moving to Hugo for my site generator. I looked at a few options and as part of this I came a cross a workflow in github that allows me to store my site in a private repo and then publish the site to a public repo without too much fuss.
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