Introduction In the previous post we saw that we can have multiple automations in a single automation file. We also added comments so we know what the automations are without having to reverse eng...

Introduction Since Google has introduced their new automations tool, I’ve been moving everything back from Siri Shortcuts to the Google Home ecosystem. After adding all the animations one by one, ...

Introduction A couple of weeks back we bought a Philips smart plug so we can turn on and off the phone chargers when we’re in bed. Our idea was that when we’re out of bed or not at home, those cha...

Introduction Recently I was creating an automation where I wanted to turn of multiple lights at once. The automation was supposed to turn off all the lights in the living room and the kitchen when...

Introduction In the previous post we’ve seen that we can use and conditions in automations. We also saw that there is an or condition operator. We’ll in this post we’re going to update our previou...

Introduction Since a couple of weeks Google has (finally!) added support for more advanced automations using YAML. Even though as of right now it’s still in public preview, I’ve migrated all my au...

Introduction With the release of It Depends, I’ve been searching for a way to execute a command after a target has been built. The reason for this is that I’d like to have a flag which will trigge...

Introduction As a software developer it’s important to know what dependencies your application are using. This is especially true after the vulnerability we’ve seen in versions 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1...

Introduction I’m happy to introduce a new application I’ve been working on the past couple of weeks, It Depends. I’ve been working on it because at work I’d like to see, and search for that matter...

Preface Now that we have the following data structure from our previous post, we can create the logic to retrieve the start of the packet marker. The start of the packet is a sequence of four un...