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Prisma

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Azure

Microsoft Azure stands at the forefront of cloud computing, offering a comprehensive suite of services designed to meet the diverse needs of modern enterprises. Azure's extensive portfolio includes computing, storage, networking, and analytics solutions, making it a versatile choice for businesses of all sizes.

Nodejs

Dive into Node.js for its efficient server-side capabilities, ensuring robust backend services.

Next.js

Leverage Next.js for unparalleled server-side rendering and static site generation, boosting your website's performance and SEO ranking.

Tailwind CSS

Embrace TailwindCSS for its utility-first approach to styling, enabling responsive, visually stunning websites with minimal effort.

NVM

Node Version Manager (NVM) is a popular tool that allows developers to manage multiple versions of Node.js on a single machine. It enables easy installation, switching, and management of different Node.js versions, ensuring compatibility with various projects and their dependencies.

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GraphQL

Explore GraphQL's revolutionary data querying language, allowing for precise and efficient data fetching, reducing unnecessary requests, and speeding up your application.

Contentful

Finally, it integrates Contentful, the leading headless CMS, for easy content management and delivery across platforms. This powerful combination ensures a scalable, maintainable, and SEO-optimized website, setting you apart in the digital landscape. Whether you're a seasoned developer or new to web development, our guides offer the tools and insights to elevate your projects and achieve outstanding results, and this is for free ;-)

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Latest Posts - 112

Home Assistant Packages Instead of Include Files

One YAML file per area instead of files split by type, the price of that layout, and a deploy script that validates the config and restores a backup on failure.

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October 28, 2026

Home Assistant Migration: Old and New in Parallel

Moving from Home Assistant 2024.11.1 to 2026.8.2 with both instances running: the new one reads first, automations arrive switched off, and I compare states.

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October 21, 2026

Move KNX Switches From the Home Assistant UI to knx.yaml

31 of 33 UI-created KNX switches moved into knx.yaml without a restart, with their old entity ids restored. The steps, the tool, and five broken actions.

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October 14, 2026

One Day of Home Assistant Logs: 775 Errors, Seven Findings

775 errors and 5,077 warnings in one day of Home Assistant logs: five findings from that day, two from the restart after it. Three affected operation.

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October 7, 2026

Custom Cards in Home Assistant: Mushroom and button-card

Four custom cards, one theme and self-hosted fonts turned a stock dashboard into an instrument panel. The four things that broke on the way, with the fixes.

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September 30, 2026

Home Assistant Dashboard Templates You Can Copy

Two complete YAML dashboards to paste: one on built-in cards only, one with four custom cards. Including how to wire them in and how to swap the entities.

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September 22, 2026

21 Releases Behind: I Rebuilt Instead of Upgrading

An instance 21 monthly releases behind. Why I chose a clean rebuild over an upgrade, what a fresh install starts with, and the screen that made it a choice.

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September 15, 2026

Building a Home Assistant Dashboard From Zero

Five steps from an empty view to a finished dashboard, one screenshot each. The step that changes the most adds no new cards at all, only structure.

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September 8, 2026

Where Home Assistant Runs: One Small VM, Measured

A 7 euro cloud VM running Home Assistant in Docker: memory, boot and disk measured, why not Kubernetes, and what a data-centre machine cannot do.

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September 1, 2026

Home Assistant Themes: Six Installed and Compared

Six theme repos give you 74 selectable themes. Which need card-mod, why LCARS does not look like LCARS, and how HACS 2.x changed where you find them.

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August 25, 2026