Security
When the Pipeline Signs Your Malware: The May 2026 Supply-Chain Chain
Three supply-chain compromises in eight days self-propagated through SLSA-attested pipelines. The custodians signed the malware themselves.
Morndur
Eighteen tries to get my AI-narrated cast to wear the right clothes, a Flux 2 Klein post-mortem
I needed two recognisable characters across dozens of dark-fantasy scenes. Klein gave me eighteen failed iterations of the same closing - twins, hobbits, photoreal Hollywood stills, a soldier dressed as a beggar - before I stopped fixing the model and started fixing the composition.
qwen
Morndur.com — From Weekend Idea to Three-Week Rabbit Hole
3-week rabbit hole. Building an AI-narrated daily RPG, I spent more time reading arXiv than writing code. The surprise: a 1998 algorithm beat every new neural net for handling minority player voices.
VersatileThermostat
Versatile Thermostat vs Better Thermostat: 10 Days of Data Changed My Mind
Better Thermostat vs Versatile Thermostat: 10 days of data, 90% less valve thrashing, 2x faster heating. Here's why I switched and the numbers that prove it.
TRV
The Holy Grail of Heating Thermostats: A Plot Twist (TRV801Z vs TRV801_1)
I bought 8 MOES TRV valves and discovered that firmware lottery can ruin your heating automation. Here's what I learned at -14°C outside.
Homelab
The Lazy Sysadmin's Guide to UPS Battery Calibration: When You Refuse to Leave Your Desk
Replaced UPS batteries but runtime dropped? The APC remembers old capacity. Instead of shutting down my homelab and fumbling with cables, I calibrated the UPS remotely via Home Assistant's NUT addon using raw netcat commands. Runtime nearly doubled. Zero cables touched.
microsoft
How I Spent Two Weeks Fighting Microsoft's Support System to Recover My Own Account: A Kafka-esque Journey Through Corporate Bureaucracy
Locked out of your Microsoft account as the sole admin? Join me on a 2-week odyssey through Microsoft's Kafkaesque support system. Learn the secret backdoors, magic words, and creative workarounds I discovered to finally recover my account. A survival guide born from corporate bureaucracy hell.
bitcoin
The $20 Bitcoin Lottery: When Your ESP32 Becomes a Slot Machine (With Better Odds Than You Think)
I compare the odds of winning the Polish Lotto, the Eurojackpot, and solo-mining a Bitcoin block with a $20 ESP32. The results are shocking — in the world of “lottery mining,” your tiny device becomes a perpetual lottery ticket that also tells time and costs under $3 a year to run.
zigbee
When Rain Actually Makes You Happy: The $10 Zigbee Guardian of Your Outdoor Laundry
A punchy summary that highlights the key selling points - the price, dual functionality, practical use cases (laundry + irrigation), and the advantage of real detection over forecasts. It's short, engaging, and gives readers a clear reason to read the full article.
zigbee
The Silent Killer and the 25$ Zigbee Guardian: Safer Home with the ZC-HM Carbon Monoxide Sensor (Home Assistant compatibile)
The heating season brings a deadly risk: carbon monoxide. See how a $25 Zigbee sensor (ZC-HM) and Home Assistant can protect your family. A simple setup for a priceless peace of mind. #SmartHome #Safety
Homelab
When SMART Lies and Your NAS Dies: A 48-Hour Recovery Saga
"SMART status: PASSED" - the biggest lie in storage monitoring. My WD Red drive was dying with 69 errors at LBA=0, clicking mechanically, yet SMART said everything was fine. A 48-hour battle with silent hardware failure that nearly cost me 4.5TB of data. ZFS saved me, but barely.
truecrypt
The Day I Cracked My Own 12-Year-Old TrueCrypt Volume: A Journey Through Virtual Machines, Legacy Crypto, and Million-Password Brute Force
Journey through recovering a 12-year-old TrueCrypt volume: from P2V virtualization failures to discovering VeraCrypt incompatibilities with RIPEMD-160, building a 12-million password generator, and creating a PowerShell batch-processing script that reduced 412 days to 6 minutes. Full code included.