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  • 11 Nov 2026

    A house that gets ahead of peak prices

    Our power costs three times as much at breakfast as it does after midnight. Home Assistant now moves the heating, the cooling and the car out of the way.
  • 11 Nov 2026

    The switch that turns off every GPU

    A Zigbee relay and a script take fourteen graphics cards off a running server. How it works, what went wrong, and why we stopped doing it every night.

More soon.

Last updated 11 November 2026. The whole log, and a feed if you want it to come to you.

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  • A house that gets ahead of peak pricesPost, 11 Nov 2026
  • The switch that turns off every GPUPost, 11 Nov 2026

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