Finance Project 4: Finally getting started
Now that I’ve worked out how I’m going to structure my data I need to work out how to store it…
Finance Project 3: The Schema
Now that I’ve decided how to structure the data in my finance application I can move on to the next step – designing the schema…
Finance Project 2: Data design
The first thing I need to consider for my personal finance project is the data. How will I store it? How will I structure it?
Starting a project
Money management. Not the most exciting of topics, but something just about everybody needs to consider…
A lesson in poor API design
Now that I’m into home automation one of my requirements when buying a new device for home is how well it will fit into my setup…
The benefit of open source
I upgraded Home Assistant to v0.62 at the weekend and my 433MHz switches stopped working…
FizzBuzz!
Last week I saw an interesting video by Tom Scott about FizzBuzz and it made me have a think about programming…
Revisiting InfluxDB
When I put together a Zato service to take temperature values from SmartThings and record them in InfluxDB I considered a new outgoing connection type…
Too many options
I’ve written previously that I think there are too many programming languages. I’ll expand that. There’s too much technology…
Summer’s here
Summer’s here – and I can prove it, thanks to my SmartThings integrations with InfluxDB and Grafana…