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Ollama Clients

September 01, 2025

Taking a quick sniff at some LLM clients which work on Mac.

This 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, 2025

Managed 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, 2024

There's no more pure a blog article, than an article about one's own blog.

Debian for OpenFrame

June 21, 2023

Free your OpenPeak device to run Debian!

AlertMe Devices on Hubitat

January 10, 2021

The OG of Zigbee.

Hubitat and Lidl Smart Home

December 31, 2020

Wrote some drivers for the mains ‘leccy stuff.

Plex Media Player

May 15, 2020

Compiled and packaged for 32-bit Debian systems.

AlertMe Mini Hub Disassembly

November 04, 2019

It’s yet another video!

It’s another video!

Using fstab to prevent drives from appearing on macOS.

It’s a video!

OpenPeak Firmware v30301

August 21, 2018

Spruced up the original operating system for the Openpeak OpenFrame so it continues to work and doesn’t delete your app library.

There’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.

They know where you live, but they’re deliberately obtuse about it.

Do you need virtual reality to work over fibre? No? You’re lucky.

Filesystems!

Running pfSense on a Mac Pro

February 09, 2015

Spoiler, but essentially you press ‘c’ while the machine boots.

Recovery of ASMedia ASM1051

November 26, 2014

Firmware flashing is always fun, particularly when you can set the variables to anything you fancy.

Mac Pro Storage Upgrade

November 01, 2014

Cool cards for cool kids.