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#home-automation#home-assistant#iot#zigbee#esp32#smart-home

Home Assistant Works Great Until It Doesn't: 10 Years of Lessons

Home Assistant promises local control and privacy, but the reality is a house of cards. After 10 years of building smart homes, here is what breaks and whether it is worth it
#prometheus#grafana#monitoring#sre

The Only Prometheus Metrics I Actually Alert On

Essential Prometheus metrics for applications, servers, and databases. What the Golden Signals miss and why your Alertmanager config is probably wrong
#seo#json-ld#meta-tags#structured-data#sveltekit

The Meta Tags That Matter (And the JSON-LD That Gets You Cited)

I thought meta tags were optional until my articles kept getting outranked by thinner content. Turns out Google was speaking a language I was not
#go#golang#go126#development

Go 1.26 new(expr) and the pointer problem I thought was solved

The new(expr) syntax in Go 1.26 should have let me delete my generic ptr[T] helpers. It almost did
#go#bitwise#bitmask#iota#config#patterns

Go Bitwise Flags and Bitmasks: Configuration Pattern Guide

How to use bitwise flags, bitmasks, and iota for configuration in Go. Learn bitwise OR, AND, XOR operations, set/clear/toggle patterns, and practical examples with JSON serialization

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