Mike Grant

DevContainer CLI

October 6, 2023 less than 1 minute read

Use DevContainer CLI to simplify your life when working with devcontainers

Disabling sleep mode on Fire TV

August 2, 2023 less than 1 minute read

Using ADB to disable sleep mode on a Fire TV

My Personal Daily Briefing using GPT-3 and Home Assistant

February 26, 2023 5 minute read

Building a personal daily briefing using GPT-3, Home Assistant and Amazon Echos to make sure I start the day with all the information I need.

Stay Ahead of Hay Fever with Home Assistant and Public Pollen Data

February 21, 2023 2 minute read

Building a system to alert me every morning if pollen levels are high using Home Assistant

Finding Dev Containers With Docker CLI

February 10, 2023 less than 1 minute read

Finding dev containers using Docker CLI

Controlling Streaming Services with Alexa - Part 2

January 31, 2023 12 minute read

Building an Alexa Video Skill that can control streaming services on ANY Android based TV.

Limiting paths that trigger Github Actions

January 26, 2023 less than 1 minute read

Been spending the day experimenting with Github Actions today on a repository that contains multiple backend projects, as well as a front end project. Unfort...

2023 Projects

January 1, 2023 1 minute read

2023 means it’s time for something new, 12 months, 12 side projects.

Merging Swagger Definitions

December 30, 2022 less than 1 minute read

Unfortunately Azure API Management doesn’t support swagger files which use a $ref pointer to reference external files source. Which means to import them I’ll...

Controlling Home Assistant with GPT-3

December 22, 2022 3 minute read

Using GPT3 to with minimal prompt engineering to control Home Assistant