One of the most powerful abilities of Home Assistant is the ability to easily create automation based on the current location of our home users.
For instance, start the vacuum cleaner and 9:00 am, only if you’re not home.
This of course can be done with the built-in automation editor, but the condition for the scenario can be rather long, particularly if there is more than one person in the house.
As I wrote here before, the ESP8266 is one of the best controllers for simple tasks. It’s cheap, reliable, and easy to code with Arduino.
Sometimes, even great things as this chip can cause a bit of a headache, like this time around, when I got “connection refused” error when I tried to open an HTTP connection to one of my services.
If you have a web application and you want to easily detect when a user has duplicated your site’s tab this solution is for you. All modern browsers have a “duplicate tab” functionality, which allows users to continue working on pages they were, only in a new tab, thus allowing for multiple instances of the […]
Help Google Image Search detect the license for your images with RDFa’s. If you host images on your site, and you want to specify a license for them use Google recommended RDFa (Resource Description Framework in Attributes – a W3C recommendation) in your HTML. This tip will explain how to do it.
I’ve developed a new Chrome Extension, “Reverse Image Search” which gives the ability to reverse search directly from the context menu of the image.
Some sites your browse use code to prevent you from selecting text or even using the right-click on your mouse (for the context menu).
Recently I released a new application for Windows platform (Desktop & Mobile) and I wanted you all to check it out and tell me what you think.
If you ever encountered a sync problem with one of your Google accounts you are probably familiar with the wide variety of suggestions that can be seen in forums like restarting your phone, reinstall the app or even to wipe your device clean and start over.
If you want to serve pages quickly and without using a lot of resources from the webserver to your users you need to code efficiently. One of the ways to do it is to use cache for somewhat static pages.
Returning visitors to the site probably noticed that recently I changed the images for the software I offer to purchase on this site.