So I’m getting a “Data disk is running low on free space” warning from Home Assistant. Cool. 83GB of 83GB used. The whole drive is full! I check Settings, System, Storage and it breaks down where everything is going. 57GB in addons_data (that’s my MariaDB database, which is a whole other problem for another day),…
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How a $16 Power Switch Saved My Danby Dishwasher (And Probably My Kitchen)
You know that sinking feeling when you open the dishwasher expecting clean dishes, only to find a pool of dirty water sitting at the bottom? Yeah. That was my life for a few weeks, and I was convinced the whole unit was dying on me, but the issue was so random. My Danby Designer DDW1802EBLS…
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What Agentic Engineering Actually Looks Like (From a Solo Developer Who Uses It Daily)
A few months ago, I pointed an AI at some code I wrote years ago and asked it to tear it apart. Find the architectural problems. Tell me what I did wrong. It did. And honestly? It stung a little. Issues I’d overlooked as the codebase grew. Decisions that made sense at the time but…
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Why Is My Home Assistant Energy Dashboard So Wrong? How to Fix Statistics Database Corruption
So there I was, casually checking my Home Assistant Energy Dashboard, y’know like the average person does every Sunday morning, when I noticed something… off. According to my dashboard, I’d consumed 2,425,370.32 kWh of electricity in 2025. For context, that’s roughly the annual consumption of a small industrial facility. My electricity bill? A cool CA$242,533.56.…
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Fix EasyApache 4 PHP Install Failures Caused by Imunify360 Hardened PHP
When EasyApache Won’t Install PHP and You Don’t Know Why You’re in WHM, trying to install PHP 7.4 (yes, I know – outdated!) through EasyApache 4, and it spits this back at you: If you’re staring at this wondering what the hell libargon2 has to do with anything, you’re not alone. I hit this exact…
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AI Coding in 2026: Architects, Builders, and Kids with Crayons
If you’ve been paying attention to the AI hype machine lately, you’ve probably heard terms like “vibe coding” and “agentic engineering” thrown around. Maybe you’ve tried them yourself. Maybe you took someone else’s code and “fixed it”. Maybe you’ve watched someone on YouTube build an entire SaaS app in 20 minutes and thought, “Well, I…
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Why Vibe Coding Fails: It’s Not the AI, It’s What You’re Telling It
You’ve probably seen the posts. “I built a SaaS in a weekend with AI.” “From idea to launch in 48 hours.” Maybe you’ve tried it yourself, typed something like “build me a task manager app,” and watched code appear on screen. It works. Sort of. Until it doesn’t. The difference between vibe coding and agentic…
Battlefield and EA Secure Boot Issues: When Anti-Cheat Bricks Your PC
Secure Boot has become the latest gatekeeper for PC gaming thanks to EA’s launcher and its Battlefield series. Battlefield 2042 enforces Secure Boot for anti-cheat, and Battlefield 6 is already showing the same requirement in its beta. For some players it is just an annoyance. For others it leads to a full-on system failure that…
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Perfect Proxmox Tweaks for Homelab SSD and NVMe Installs
Running Proxmox off an SSD or NVMe makes your UI snappy and boots lightning-fast. But if you’re on a consumer-grade drive, there’s a catch: these drives weren’t built for constant write-heavy workloads. Proxmox does a lot of logging, RRD data collection, and swap usage that can wear a cheap NVMe faster than you expect. So,…
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Upgrade Proxmox VE 8 to 9 on Standalone Nodes: Real-World Runbook with Fixes
How to Upgrade Proxmox VE 8 to 9 Without Breaking Your Nodes Proxmox VE 9.0 dropped on August 5, 2025, and if you’re running a homelab or small production node, you’re probably wondering: “Should I upgrade now, and how much pain will it be?” The good news: it’s not rocket science. The bad news: there…