Richard Gaywood

A rogue integration took down my #homeassistant server yesterday (Combustion Inc, a wireless kitchen thermometer. It was spamming the log so hard it caused HA’s main Python process to OOM. It was generating thousands of log lines per second.)

The web interface was just barely usable for a few minutes after boot; then became totally unusable before it finally crashed. This is a problem for a headless server. BUT I had JUST THE DAY BEFORE taken delivery of two NanoKVMs. Quickly hooked one up and was able to use the local console it gave me to fix the issue without needing to lug a monitor to the HA box / move the box up to my office.

IP KVM FTW!

Do I know anyone with the iPad 26 beta & the Ocado app? Maybe @craiggrannell@mastodon.social ? I’m curious about how the app behaves with the new windowing system.

(Why Ocado? For whatever reason – I assume it’s the UI framework or layout engine it uses – it doesn’t support split screen on my iPad today. And it’s an app I always want to use in split screen because I want to note down my meal plan while I’m shopping.)

(It also has this annoying behaviour where if you use Stage Manager and drag the window to resize then it also makes the on-screen keyboard smaller at the same time.)

I got a new Mac so I'm trying Safari again (surprise surprise, it seems to be significantly more performant on an M-chip than an i9... I suspect there's not been a lot of focus on x64 perf tuning of late!)

I realise insular decisions is a very Apple thing, but jfc, its unwillingness to map mouse3 to "back", even as an option, is baffling. Every other desktop browser has done that for zillion years because it's a very sensible mapping. We don't all use Magic Trackpads.