A journey from Mount Stupid
Just when I started blogging again, I found myself sidetracked…
Fun with AppDaemon
I’m making increasing use of AppDaemon with Home Assistant, as I like the flexibility of using Python to structure my automations. I discussed it a couple of weeks ago and this time I’m going to work through another example…
Secret Santa for the covid age
Secret Santa is a popular tradition in offices and amongst other groups. The idea is that you buy a gift for another member of the group, assigned to you at random…
AppDaemon and when to use it
I’ve mentioned AppDaemon in passing and used it for my ZoneMinder camera automations, but what is it and why would you use it?
Finance Project 7: Starting the UI
When I’m building web apps I like to get the look and feel in place while I’m developing…
The Django class war
When I wrote the first view for my application it was written as a function. If you follow the Django tutorial, it recommends switching to generic views using classes…
A digression into Git
At the moment I’m the sole developer working on my finance project and I can’t see that changing. It’s very much a learning exercise…
Finance Project 6: Managing the data
I have a basic data model, so now I need a way to enter data…
Finance Project 5: The data model
Now that I’ve got Django up and running I can create my models…