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Reverse Engineering Private API – SSL Pinning

May 30, 2021March 16, 2022 1 Comment

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 […]

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Tracking baby’s sleep without wearable

March 12, 2021March 16, 2022 2 Comments

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 […]

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DIY Home Assistant

Creating a DIY Multisensor

July 24, 2020March 16, 2022 No Comments

If you are wondering what this ugly-looking thing is, it’s the multisensor I made using some electronic components I already had from previous DIY projects. As I started getting into the Smart home hobby, I quickly realized how expensive it gets with so many sensors I have to place around the house (e.g. motion, temperature, […]

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Automate – Tag articles in Pocket reader

July 13, 2019March 16, 2022 No Comments

If you are like me who has 100s of articles saved to read for later and uses “Pocket” to browse offline, you might find it difficult to organize this list without tags. Pocket lets you add tags manually, but that means every time I add an article, I have to add tags and there is […]

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Hosting my wedding site on Github for free

July 20, 2013April 3, 2022 No Comments

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 […]

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