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Tags in Jekyll: the setup
Jekyll is a popular blog engine that allows you to create static websites with markdown files. One of the features that Jekyll offers is the ability to tag your posts with keywords that describe their content. Tags are useful for a blog because they help you organize your posts, make them easier to find, and improve your SEO. In this post, I will show you how to use tags in Jekyll and how to create a tags page and a tags feed for your blog.
Jekyll has support for tags and categories, however using the Tag functionality comes with certain gotcha’s if you want to maintain Github Pages compatibility. -
Flanders/Belgium's Capacity Tariffs in Home Assistant with Improvements
Flanders reformed the nettariffs for electricity transport, shifting a larger cost to peak usage. They do this by measuring your average consumption per 15m and the maximum quarter of the month counts as your tariff. Currently information and dashboards from Fluvius are cumbersome to use (CSV export and then leveraging Excel to spot the highest quarter). In a 2022 I wrote a quite popular blog post about how to integrate capacity tariffs in Home Assistant.
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Home Assistant: Adding a custom_component in NixOS - revisited
Since NixOS 23.11 there is a new way of packaging Home Assistant custom components, making some of the work written in earlier blog posts irrelevant. Let’s repackage the electrolux_status and it’s dependency tomeko12/pyelectroluxconnect.
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Monitoring HVAC Air Quality in Home Assistant using IKEA Vindstyrka Zigbee sensors
We recently installed Heat Recovery Ventilation (WTW Ventilatie in Dutch) combined with 2 filters; a carbon filter against odor and a fine dust (PM) filter. To find out and monitor, I installed 3 IKEA Vindstyrka Zigbee sensors within the ventilation pipes.
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NixOS on Microsoft Windows 11 using WSL2
NixOS is my go-to Linux distribution, providing a Functional approach to packaging & configuration management.
There are a couple of steps to enable NixOS on top of the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.