In today's world, where energy efficiency and sustainability are becoming increasingly important, it is crucial to understand and control the energy consumption of our household appliances. This is where the integration of PowerCalc into Home Assistant comes into play, a powerful tool that Read more...
What is Healthchecks.io? Healthchecks.io is a monitoring service specifically designed to monitor periodically executed tasks (like cronjobs). It works by waiting for a "sign of life" from your scripts - a so-called "ping". When a scheduled script is successfully executed, Read more...
Maybe you have the same problem as I had some time ago. When deleting posts or drafts, WordPress always threw me back to my start page instead of landing in the post overview. I also had the same problem when deleting plugins. Read more...
For months I had cURL error 28 in my WordPress instance and with it the problem that I had loading times of 30 seconds to one minute for calling a single page in the whole dashboard respectively wp-admin area. I really Read more...
Some of you will feel the pain of having a setup consisting of multiple monitors and then, for example, a TV on which you play a few games every now and then. You then do not need your 2 main monitors and Read more...
Anyone who owns their own domain knows the pain. Emails may end up in spam for the recipient. And that even though the message may not even have an attachment or images. The reasons for this can be manifold. Maybe the domain is on Read more...
A common and frustrating problem faced by many PC and laptop users is the unwanted wake-up from sleep mode. This phenomenon can have multiple causes, from internal system updates to external interference. Often, certain hardware components like mouse or keyboard are Read more...
Some time ago my WordPress website crashed fatally after a failed plugin update. The really fatal thing was that I didn't notice it at all. For more than a day, when calling my website, you only got an error displayed. But Read more...
Update 09/2025 Unfortunately, it looks as though Tado is trying to thwart us all and is desperately trying to impose a subscription. An absolute absurdity given the acquisition costs. In September 2025, Tado introduced API rate limits that restrict users of its Cloud REST API Read more...
In the era of microservices, Docker is considered the non plus ultra. Even front-end applications like Angular or back-end applications like Spring Boot (Java) can be easily used in Docker containers. When presenting an application to a larger group, Docker can be used to Read more...
