https://karlquinsland.com/tags/automation/Recent content in Automation on karlHugoen-usSun, 16 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://karlquinsland.com/rss-and-homeassistant-for-early-blackout-warning/Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://karlquinsland.com/rss-and-homeassistant-for-early-blackout-warning/<p>California, like most of the West Coast, is currently in the middle of a prolonged and serious heat-wave. Record breaking temperatures results in a distribution grid stressed beyond it&rsquo;s abilities which guarantees blackouts.</p> <p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Independent_System_Operator" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreffer ">organization that oversees the electric grid</a> in California publishes RSS feeds for various types of grid related news and events. All the CA ISO RSS feeds are published <a href="http://www.caiso.com/Pages/GlobalRSS.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreffer ">here</a>, but the two feed that I&rsquo;m using are:</p>https://karlquinsland.com/the-missing-todoist-tools/Sun, 26 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://karlquinsland.com/the-missing-todoist-tools/<h1 id="tmtdt-the-missing-todoist-tools-">TMTDT: The Missing ToDoist Tools 🎉</h1> <p>As the name implies, TMTDT started as a small collection of scripts that I used to augment ToDoist with features they can&rsquo;t/won&rsquo;t implement. It&rsquo;s grown quite a bit since then.</p> <figure > <img src="https://karlquinsland.com/the-missing-todoist-tools/images/demo.webp" alt="I don&#39;t know how to make flashy demo gifs." /> <figcaption> <p> I don&#39;t know how to make flashy demo gifs. <a href="#demo"> See the file driving the demo </a> </p> </figcaption> </figure> <p>Those scripts started as simple idea and quickly morphed into a creaky, but essential, tool. As more features were added it continued too morph into an unmaintainable mess. Untangling that mess was on my todo list but never a high priority partly because of issues TMTDT was designed to solve 🤦.</p>