SofaBaton X2 + Home Assistant: MQTT is a Disaster, Here’s How to Fix It So I’ve been doing a pretty major overhaul of my smart home setup, moving everything into Home Assistant as the “brain” and then exposing devices back to Apple Home via the HomeKit Bridge integration. Part of this involved getting my SofaBaton […]
So, one lonely night I noticed that when using the Narwhal Reddit App with PLDT that any Redgifs content takes an incredibly long time to load. We’re talking 2-3 min minutes to load like a 10mb gif. I did a bunch of testing by routing my iPhone traffic through my Macbook and checking the requests […]
Are you finding that your downloads behave strange from certain websites? Like, the download is still active but it seems to pause over and over again? Or has a Stop/Start pattern? Try disabling UDP Flood Defence on your routers Firewall! On a Draytek Vigor, this is under Firewall > Defence Setup. You can also just […]
The Problem: For a number of months I have had an issue with being able to sign into the Messages (iMessage) app on MacOS on my Macbook Pro. What happens is that I try and login, but the loading circle will rotate for 2-3 minutes and then “An unknown error has occurred” will be displayed. […]
A friend of mine recently posted a link to this Guardian article about the best video game consoles ranked. This absolutely pile of trash disguised an article got me so outraged that it forced me to sit in front of my computer on a Saturday afternoon and write my first blog post in three years […]
