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LatestJuly 03, 20267 min read

Building Lights Pi: a friendlier face for QLC+ in a studio

Wrapping QLC+ on a Raspberry Pi with the things that make a headless DMX rig pleasant to use: one-command provisioning, a friendly landing page, fixture groups, AI scene generation, and the boring reliability glue (udev rules, WiFi watchdog, doctor command) that turns lights-are-dead calls into a non-event.

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May 11, 202613 min read

What Automating Humble Bundle Taught Me About Playwright

I got one of those “your key is expiring” emails from Humble Bundle, opened my library, and realized I had no idea how many unclaimed games were sitting there. So I wrote a tool. What followed was a crash course in everything Playwright throws at you when you’re automating a real, bot-averse, React-rendered storefront.

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May 03, 20268 min read

One Folder, Many Projects: How Nested Git Repos Unlocked My Agentic Workflow

A small filesystem tweak that turned my open source projects into a single workspace my agents can actually reason about. Nested git repos, a centralized orchestrator, and a documentation loop that finally stays in sync.

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February 04, 20257 min read

How to easily get a list of your local Ollama models within your application

A bash one-liner that lists your locally downloaded Ollama models, plus the equivalent in Python, Node.js, Go, and Rust. The command I kept rewriting until I just dropped it into a shell alias.

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January 07, 20253 min read

What I put in .npmignore, and why the package.json files field is usually better

What I actually put in .npmignore (after the time I shipped a 600MB package by accident), why the package.json files field is usually the safer default, and the npm pack –dry-run check that saves you from publishing things you shouldn’t.

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October 13, 20241 min read

Typing `Unknown` Supabase RPC Calls

A short pattern for typing the response of a Supabase RPC call when the generated types come back as `unknown` – the cast I keep reaching for, and why a runtime validator like Zod is the safer follow-up.