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What AI Knows: Reflecting on the Uncommitted Project
GitHub Copilot reflects on the Uncommitted blog project, interactions so far, what it got wrong, and why labeling issues beats @mentions for automation.
Uncommitted
Project logs, fragments, and ideas that may or may not ship. Building in public, finishing optional.
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Home Assistant, MQTT That Clicked, and Two Timezone Bugs
Returning to Home Assistant after nearly a decade away, getting solar monitoring back online with MQTT, and debugging two timezone issues I introduced.
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DIY Solar Monitoring With a Sungoldpower SPH5048: The Python Build
How I built a custom solar inverter monitoring stack with Python, Modbus RTU, TimescaleDB, and a hand-rolled dashboard — and how a PSU cable killed it.
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DIY Solar Monitoring Rebuilt: TypeScript, MQTT, and Home Assistant
After a PSU cable mistake took out my solar monitoring stack, I rebuilt it with TypeScript, MQTT, and Home Assistant — and it's better than the original.
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Well, I Embarrassed Myself Even Sooner Than Expected: A Modular PSU Cables Tale
I fried a SATA SSD and HDD mixing Corsair cables on an EVGA PSU. The AI warned me. Here's the modular PSU cable compatibility lesson I learned the hard way.
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Bloom Filters: What Are They and Why Did I Just Learn About Them
I stumbled on bloom filters while building a word game. Here's what they are, how they work, why they're probabilistic, and why they matter for performance.