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Use Claude AI in Home Assistant Studio

Published on February 4, 2026.

Sometimes you have to configure stuff in Home Assistant the "painful" way: Working with Yaml-Files instead of using the UI. Therefore Studio Code Server is the first choice for most of us. But Yaml isn't fun. Yaml in hass.io especially isn't fun.

But there is ai for the rescue. AI isn't always the solution, but working with ugly configuration formats is exactly where it is good at. So let's add claude to the Studio Code Server

Grafana - Notifications for Mastodon

Published on November 22, 2025.

Grafana is a very useful tool for monitoring your own programs, discovering silly bugs, or simply looking at beautiful graphs :)

Another feature is "Alerts". These can be configured arbitrarily, whether high CPU load, too many errors in the log, or similar should trigger an alarm.

This post won't be about the alerts themselves, but rather about sending already configured alerts to Mastodon. These are called Contact Points in Grafana and initially don't offer Mastodon integration. However, this can be worked around with a few simple steps.

Wayback Machine and 301 redirects

Published on November 15, 2016.

As you might know: the wayback machine from archive.org saves snapshots of websites. It does this automatically or can be forced to do so. However. If you ever had a 301 redirect on your site you are very much doomed.

Like browsers also the wayback-machine caches the redirect and does not continue...

Getting rid of Proxy limitations using Fiddler

Published on September 16, 2016.

If you work in a company that uses Proxy authentication (aka forces you to enter a password to access websites) and are a developer you know my pain: Some Most applications just don't really like proxies. Visual Studio itself for example does not like proxy authentication at all and responses with a...

It's because they at Microsoft hate web developers

Published on June 14, 2016.

That remark isn't mine, it is from StackOverflow. :)

I had an issue that my Office365-App did not work correctly on the machine of ONE user. Sadly though that user was the Microsoft validation crew. I was unable to reproduce the error and did not even see any clue in the Server logs. Everything se...