Adding Matter Support to my Home Assistant Installation
Matter is a new protocol that should finally unify the smart home. I recently bought some Matter-compatible smart plugs and wanted to integrate them in Home Assistant natively.
2025
RSS Feeds Still Matter
RSS feeds are a dying breed. They bring me back to a simpler time of the Web 2.0 internet - before everything was so commercialized and filled with AI slop.1 In those days, before modern social media giants controlled the vast majority of web traffic, the world-wide-web felt more whimsical and personal. RSS enabled you to retrieve other sites' content and bring them into your own reader, almost like an email inbox of articles.
The Recipe Mafia Hurts the Consumer
Did you know Google essentially mandates that recipe sites follow a specific format or else they will not feature your recipe in their search engine?
I went down a rabbit hole of food recipe madness after posting my first recipe the other day, and I thought it would be interesting to share the craziness that is recipe SEO.
Hogchiladas
Normally, a recipe post would start with a 1500-word explanation of a recipe and its origin. I don't believe in wasting your time for SEO purposes, so here's the recipe. If you want the why, read on afterwards.
Making My Personal Site My Own
I've been a blogger for most of my life - but now I really want to start making my personal site my own.