Summer of Fun, 2024
What does a software developer do with 3 months of spare time? It’s time to reflect on the most fun part of any vacation: the software development. What did I fiddle with while I had time off?
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In-Floor Heating Thermostat with Home Assistant and Shelly
One of my pet peeves is devices in the house that don’t track time accurately, or, don’t deal with Daylight Saving Time automatically. Well, I now have one fewer of those in my house, as I’ve replaced this “Easy Heat FTS-1” thermostat for electric in-floor heating with a Home Assistant powered thermostat.
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Bisecting the Linux Kernel with NixOS
Recently my kernel started to panic every time I awoke my monitors from sleep. This seemed to be a regression; it worked one day, then I received a kernel upgrade from upstream, and the next time I was operating my machine it would crash when I came back to it.
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ABTraceTogether Android Background Capability Analysis
The ABTraceTogether COVID contact tracing app also doesn’t work well on Android devices. Let’s dig in and see.
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ABTraceTogether iPhone Background Capability Analysis
The Government of Alberta advertises that ABTraceTogether, their COVID contact tracing app, works on iPhones when run in the background. They are incorrect.
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