All things Geeky
What’s better than watching a Movie? Watching a movie with the perfect ambient lighting. After researching a bunch of proprietary solutions, I decided to build something on my own. This way, I can set it up just the way I like and evolve over time with a little initial cost. Little did I know, this […]
I recently ran into an interesting problem with cleaning up some uploads from my Netgear Meural account. The mobile app and web interface both let me upload pictures and videos to a playlist, but when I delete the playlist it won’t delete the media items from the playlist. The only way to delete the media […]
This post continues from my first post on reverse engineering a private API. In the previous post I explained how I had to jailbreak my iPhone to bypass SSL pinning used by the mobile app for secure communication with its server. I was so excited to finally get everything working and see the HTTPS network […]
Last year, I backed an Air purifier from Kickstarter developed by Mila Cares team, who promised to provide public API on launch. My goal was to write an integration component for the air purifier with Home Assistant like I have done in the past with Snoo smart sleeper and Mint finance. However, I wasn’t surprised […]
When I became a dad, I wanted to track my daughter’s sleep quality without any intrusive way and without buying any additional trackers. We were already using a Snoo smart sleeper that is a responsive bassinet that adds sleep by responding to a baby’s cries with white noise and motion to soothe fussing. The important […]
As I am integrating more and more services I use on the daily basis with Home Assistant, I was a little disappointed that there is no existing integration for my favorite personal finance application. Upon some research, I found out this was something considered for Home Assistant core components but later removed because it had […]
I have always been a proponent of making data-driven decisions. While working at New York University as a Web Publishing Consultant, I often found myself writing custom code and SQL queries to gather data around the WordPress multisite installation. In the 2 years since I helped launch this service, it has become the second-largest tech […]
I recently developed a WordPress plugin and published it on wordpress.org. The requirements for this plugin were completely customer-driven. While supporting a large 5000+ multisite installation at New York University, we often got complaints from our site admins (mostly faculties using our service for the course they are teaching) that they were having a difficult […]
For my wedding site, I wanted a simple, yet elegant and fast website. In this post, I am going to share how I went about creating my wedding site and ended up hosting my website on GitHub for free. Step 1: Domain Purchasing a domain was very straightforward I used GoDaddy to purchase the domain […]
