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8:26 AM

Tracking Water Usage in Home Assistant with AquaHawk

I built an open-source Home Assistant integration that pulls water usage data from AquaHawk into your Energy Dashboard. …

8:43 AM

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Deploying .NET Azure Functions with GitHub Actions: The Hidden Trick You Need to Know

I recently found myself deep in the weeds trying to get .NET Azure Functions to deploy using GitHub Actions. What seemed …

10:01 PM

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Integrating DTE Electric Rates into Your Home Assistant Energy Dashboard

One of Home Assistant’s powerful features is the Energy Dashboard, a tool designed to help monitor and manage your …

2:40 PM

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Discovered xxHash, a blazingly fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm. Perfect for uniqueness checks on long strings when you need speed over security.

https://xxhash.com/

11:59 AM

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Spot on. Engineers aren’t being replaced by AI. We’re evolving. Less typing, more guiding. The real value is domain knowledge, context, and judgment that AI needs from us.

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2026/01/what-software-engineers-bring-to-ai-assisted-software-development/