Author: jcianci12

Australians love a rebate. On paper, it sounds simple: the government offers a generous discount, households get cheaper batteries, and everyone wins. In reality, rebates can create a pricing fog that makes it much harder for ordinary people to tell what something should actually cost. That is exactly why so many homeowners come away from…

If you are sending a board off for assembly and your manufacturer keeps asking why your test points are in the BOM, here is the fix that finally worked for me in EasyEDA Pro. I had a set of test points that were just bare PCB pads. No fitted part. No metal loop. Nothing to…

The Goal When monitoring a WordPress site, the endpoint should answer one simple question: It should not load the full WordPress application unless you deliberately want an application-level health check. That matters because many common WordPress URLs trigger PHP, database access, plugin loading, cron hooks, and background jobs. For a busy site, that turns a…

Practical commands for flashing and recovering ESP32 boards in this repo on Windows. Tool Check On this machine, ESPHome is available via python -m esphome and esptool via python -m esptool. Checked locally on 2026-03-21: ESPHome 2025.12.2, esptool 5.1.0. Find The COM Port List serial ports: More detail from Windows: Quick before/after method: Repo Commands Validate config only: First USB flash: Flash zone firmware over…

A direct swap for these wall controllers, allows you to control zones from Home Assistant. I’m hoping to have these in the next few weeks (still need to design a face plate) Simply: Update! Front face competed! Feel free to leave your email here and we will keep you posted!

If you’re rebuilding or reassembling the twin throttle and shifter control on a 1999 Sea-Doo Speedster, one thing that can be confusing is the friction adjustment for the centre lever. When I was putting mine back together, I could clearly see how one side’s throttle lever friction was adjusted, but the centre lever friction adjustment…

If you use TFS on-prem, Git over HTTPS, and Windows, you may have run into a strange authentication issue: You enter the correct username and password… and Git fails. Then you try again, leave both fields blank, and suddenly it works. That feels backward, but there is actually a solid reason for it. The setup:…

Parallel Coding: Using AI Agents Like a Development Team For a long time, I’ve used AI-powered coding tools inside modern IDEs, and they’ve been incredibly useful. But more recently, I’ve started to realise the real power of parallel and recursive AI agents. Here’s how it works. You start a lead agent and ask it to…