Category Archives: WebTech

Home Assistant 2025.7.0 with Ezviz battery work mode

04/07/2025 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

Home Assistant July 2025.07 release is out…this time with a contribute also from me to introduce controlling battery mode on security cams from EZVIZ Inc. 🔋📹 https://www.home-assistant.io/changelogs/core-2025.7/ With this change it becomes possible to set programmatically the battery operation based on needs and scenarios, super power save when disarmed and switch it to normal mode … Continue reading Home Assistant 2025.7.0 with Ezviz battery work mode →

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hue Cleaner – Ambilight + Hue sync without slowness

07/05/2025 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

Philips Ambilight+Hue sync slowing down and not working? Automatically clear your Hue Hub of excess Entertainment Zones, for Mac and Windows

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Alexa app slow on iOS or Android? Its your Contacts fault

24/11/2024 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

In 5 taps: For iOS Settings Privacy e sicurezza Contacts Amazon Alexa None Per Android Settings Search for menu “Privacy“ Contacts Amazon Alexa Do not consent Why would Contacts permission degrade speed? 🤷🏻‍♂️ I asked myself the same thing, while searching in frustration for a reason, until I finally stumbled upon this amazing comment on … Continue reading Alexa app slow on iOS or Android? Its your Contacts fault →

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Switcheroo, bluetooth keyboard and mouse across Macs made easy

21/08/2022 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

Companies providing a Macbook as work laptops do a great favor to themselves and the people receiving them for productivity, years of usage have made me really fond of Mac OS versus the amount of maintenance I was demanded by my Windows workstations making it almost a second job on its own. Still even though … Continue reading Switcheroo, bluetooth keyboard and mouse across Macs made easy →

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Your Alexa routine stopped working? It might be due to Announcements

08/05/2022 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

Alexa’s routines, especially those scheduled on an hourly basis or on events such as sunrise and sunset, are very convenient, who doesn’t like them? The evening time arrives, your echo dots with joyful voice announces “Good evening, it’s close to sunset time, turning on the lights!” and the lights come on …? Or at least they … Continue reading Your Alexa routine stopped working? It might be due to Announcements →

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Tilde and backtick for dummies

29/04/2019 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

Operative system Mac, keyboard layout italian, Tilde To navigate to user root from shell ⌥ + 5 = ~ Backtick To produce the gorgeous code snippets inline on Slack, but also on Bitbucket, and for template string in ES6 ⌥ + 9 = ` Never again you’ll have to google these characters names to copy-paste them when … Continue reading Tilde and backtick for dummies →

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Codemotion 2018 @ Rome

15/10/2018 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

The codemotion is back on the scene like every year, this time in Rome for the month of April, and to keep bench rather than new and flaming JavaScript frameworks (😅) are more and more news from the W3C built-in-the-browser that come adopted at an ever-increasing speed by our dear browser makers. https://rome2018.codemotionworld.com/ Part 1 … Continue reading Codemotion 2018 @ Rome →

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Command line string navigation cheat sheet

28/01/2018 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

Thanks to Clément Chastagnol for making a very useful cheatsheet for horizontally navigating a string in terminal, which you shall print and attach under your monitor, you can find it on his blog:

https://clementc.github.io/blog/2018/01/25/moving_cli/

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css-tricks : A Front End Developer is Aware

Link 24/02/2017 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

A non-exhaustive list of the many things, told and untold, that we tend to take for granted that make complex as interesting the work of a front-end developer.

A Front End Developer is Aware