Ollama Clients
September 01, 2025Taking a quick sniff at some LLM clients which work on Mac.
Ollama on Mac Pro with Bazzite
August 29, 2025This is all about getting Ollama working on the Bazzite operating system, on some particularly niche hardware. Spoiler, it's pretty much perfect.
Hubitat to MQTT
June 23, 2025Managed to get devices on the Hubitat platform to speak MQTT by sending the POST output of the Maker API into Nginx. If at least one of those words makes sense, this may be for you!
What's Going On Here?
November 27, 2024There's no more pure a blog article, than an article about one's own blog.
Debian for OpenFrame
June 21, 2023Free your OpenPeak device to run Debian!
AlertMe Devices on Hubitat
January 10, 2021The OG of Zigbee.
Hubitat and Lidl Smart Home
December 31, 2020Wrote some drivers for the mains ‘leccy stuff.
Plex Media Player
May 15, 2020Compiled and packaged for 32-bit Debian systems.
AlertMe Mini Hub Disassembly
November 04, 2019It’s yet another video!
Hive SmartPlug SLP2 Disassembly
June 27, 2019It’s another video!
Prevent Automounting on macOS
June 18, 2019Using fstab
to prevent drives from appearing on macOS.
AlertMe SmartPlug Battery Replacement
May 17, 2019It’s a video!
OpenPeak Firmware v30301
August 21, 2018Spruced up the original operating system for the Openpeak OpenFrame so it continues to work and doesn’t delete your app library.
NVMe Drive in a MacBook Pro
July 14, 2018There’s an adapter which just about fits, and it’s better than paying Apple an exortionate amount of money. With a nice “expected performance” table.
Amazon Fire TV Licence Error
July 20, 2015They know where you live, but they’re deliberately obtuse about it.
Oculus Rift Over Optic Fibre
April 22, 2015Do you need virtual reality to work over fibre? No? You’re lucky.
Failed Core Storage Conversion
March 11, 2015Filesystems!
Running pfSense on a Mac Pro
February 09, 2015Spoiler, but essentially you press ‘c’ while the machine boots.
Recovery of ASMedia ASM1051
November 26, 2014Firmware flashing is always fun, particularly when you can set the variables to anything you fancy.
Mac Pro Storage Upgrade
November 01, 2014Cool cards for cool kids.