Fake Dog for Home Security, simple with a motion sensor and a micro-controller, though this is using a Raspberry Pi     #>

Book Review: Albion’s Seed. That is an amazing read - I had no idea about the different bands of settlers, though the conclusions at the end are disturbing at best.     #>

Braun cruZer6 Battery Replacement. Did this on a cruzer5 with a pair of rechargeable AAA batteries I bought on Amazon and it worked perfectly. So glad to keep using something I like, and keeping something out of a landfill.     #>

How to translate French words WITHOUT KNOWING FRENCH (3 clever tricks). Neat how you can sometimes just reason out what it should be since English has so many borrowed words.     #>

Home Assistant Analytics is super interesting to me. In particular the integrations section shows what's most popular. The amount of Google Cast is baffling to me though, I wonder what it's being used for (or if it's just a default installed module...)     #>

An introduction to PipeWire, an audio framework for Linux that makes some really interesting things possible.     #>

5 DIY Dog Projects. I really like RipStopByTheRoll as a company and their podcast is interesting. Their online catalog is a bit of a mess (the categorization and the path you have to go to find some things is not great) but I appreciate they exist.     #>

Make HEAVY DUTY analog inputs for Arduino / ESP32 / RaspPi projects using.... plumbing valves?! That's pretty genius using regular plumbing fixtures like that.     #>

Looria reddit recommendations. It's a bot that crawls sub-reddits and finds references to products. So maybe not recommended per se but if you think the most popular items get talked about the most it's worth checking out.     #>

Anthony Bourdain World Map, find all the places Anthony Bourdain ate while filming his shows.     #>

Cassette Tape Nostalgia. I have no idea how they got so many images but wow did I own a fair number of these...     #>

USB Benchmarks, I like that they also have runs over time meaning you can tell how well the USB drive holds up.     #>

Smokey Bear merchandise, old school cool right there.     #>

Weatherbase gives you historical weather trends (temperatures, moisture, etc) for a city it knows about. Really nice if you are traveling somewhere and trying to figure out what the weather might be like there...     #>