Author: jcianci12
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How TekOnline.com.au Works: Building and Managing a Small Technical Website
A practical look at running a small technical website and shop: product pages, blog posts, setup guides, automation, and keeping public writing separate from private operational notes.
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How to Keep Hot Water Running When Home Assistant Goes Down: A Shelly Pro 1PM Fallback
A practical pattern for keeping a hot-water relay useful during a Home Assistant outage: diagnose competing automations, then move the essential schedule onto a Shelly Pro 1PM local…
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How I Wasted 30 Minutes Trying to Find Paper Towel in Coles
I had a simple mission: paper towel. Not truffle oil. Not an obscure electrical fitting. Paper towel. I checked the toilet-paper aisle. Nothing. I checked cleaning. Nothing obvious.…
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We Tried to Buy a Couch With PayID. It Went “Pending.” So What Now?
Yesterday we found a couch we wanted and agreed on a price: $1,650. The seller was happy to take PayID. Great—no cash to organise, no counting notes in…
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An Audit Trail Is Not a Ticket Journal
A system can record who changed a field without helping the next person understand what happened. That difference matters when forms become ticket systems.
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WordPress Plugin Development for Beginners: How a Plugin Actually Works
A follow-along guide that builds a working WordPress plugin from an empty folder. Learn where plugins live, how WordPress loads and runs them, the hooks system, and every…
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A Client-Side Image Resizer for WordPress: How a Seasoned Developer Builds a Plugin
WordPress kept rejecting our image uploads. The real server limit was 2 MB, but WordPress reported 32 MB. We built a plugin that reads the true limit and…
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Custom Zone Labels for the 4-Zone Wall Controller
Print custom zone labels for the 4-Zone Wall Controller. The front faceplate now fits a Clipsal 2000 Series clip-on surround. Free SVG template for Inkscape. Step-by-step guide.
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The missing episode from “The Middle” – “The Tape”
Frankie picks up a used Tony Robbins audiobook for 50 cents at the Frugal Hoosier. She mostly buys it because the cover says: “Change Your Life.” “At this…
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RDP Painfully Slow? Your NIC’s Power-Saving Features Are Probably the Culprit
RDP lag is almost always blamed on internet speed. But when ping is solid and bandwidth is idle, the real bottleneck is the NIC driver. Five PowerShell commands…