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From time to time, it seems that raccoons tear up the lawn.  Apparently this is due to grubs under the surface and this is a treatment for them. Arena or Dylox 6.2 SiteOne Landscape Supply: 7110 Alexander St, Gilroy, CA 95020 more »

Humble Foldable Tesla Card more »

D4Craft Youtube - D4 - Complete Beginner's Guide Endgame Blizzard Sorcerer Youtube - Diablo 4 - New Best 1.1.1 Sorcerer Build - This Combo is INCREDIBLE Now - Skills Gear Paragon Guide! RageGamingVideos's 1.1.1 Fire Ball Sorcerer Helltides Sorcerer… more »

wxPython: Embedding an image in your title bar wxPython - how to colour the text of a statusbar How do you force refresh of a wx.Panel? Menu Item, Menu & MenuBar wxPython: Introduction to Drag and Drop Changing the background color of the menu bar… more »

Youtube - A New Parking Assistant using ESP8266 and WS2812b LEDs https://resinchemtech.blogspot.com/2022/11/esp-parking-assistant.html github - https://github.com/Resinchem/ESP-Parking-Assistant/tree/main/src Troubleshooting more »

Web Scraping with Puppeteer & Node.js: Chrome Automation more »

0 Carb Keto Breakfast Burritos/Tacos more »

To enable Tab Scroll buttons in Chrome, Open chrome://flags/#scrollable-tabstrip Change to Enabled more »

Links to Dashboards and Wall Mount Tablets Dashboard: Home Assistant Dashboard - where all my Home Automation comes together Take Back Control Of Your Home Assistant Dashboard! My Dream Smart Home Dashboard: Practically PERFECT! 6 INCREDIBLE Smart Home… more »

This is an article on how to make your own springs. Make Your Own Springs in Seconds more »

Android - for the love of God!  Please stop messing with things behind the scenes.  I don't want you killing my background processes or removing permissions from my apps - regardless of how long it has been since I've used them! How can I disable the… more »

This is a modification to reduce the time that the Aqara motion sensor waits between sensing motion. Aqara Motion Sensor Hack for 5 sec Making Xiaomi Motion Sensor a Super Motion Sensor AQara Motion Sensor Hack / Mod more »

I have struggled with Home Assistant restarts for quite some time.  One of the issues I see is that MQTT switches show lightning bolts until they are power cycled.  Here are some links to address that issue: Sliders revert back to lightning bolts after… more »

Build a 12 ft gate that will not SAG! How to Build a Wooden Gate (Double) That Won't Sag!! more »

Fell in love with this design as soon as I saw it. DIY Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Case With OLED Stats Display Adafruit_Python_SSD1306 OLED stats using CircuitPython libraries OLED Stats TheDIYLifeCo more »