Ben
ben.casita.zone
Ben
@ben.casita.zone
1x software engineer
December 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Toggling your light switch to detect if us-east1 is up or down
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Oh interesting — I thought the HA auto-discovery would work ahead of any pairing but I guess if the plugin uses cloud connectivity you are stuck.
December 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Can you hook everything up through home assistant? I am running it on a raspberry pi with no issues. Typically there are integrations for most smart home things
December 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The City/County jurisdictional problems strike again!
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It is sort of funny that an illustrative photo is of a completely deserted parking lot.
December 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
it would be nice to Do Something
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
she occasionally tours — we took our kids to see her and it was tremendous.
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The database locking mechanism referenced earlier will prevent this (you can only have exactly one concurrent writer). In practice this isn’t usually a problem because writes are fast. You can set a busy timeout to have a second process sleep when it encounters a lock: sqlite.org/rescode.html...
Result and Error Codes
sqlite.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I have a different documentation page for you about this! www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html

What are you trying to do/worried about?
File Locking And Concurrency In SQLite Version 3
www.sqlite.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Hard to beat the SQLite docs on this particular scenario: sqlite.org/wal.html
Write-Ahead Logging
sqlite.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Would be funny to compare X uptime vs AWS uptime since the acquisition.
October 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A must have for the everyday minimalist
October 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
there is uv pip freeze which generates a requirements.txt file
October 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It is incredible how many scenes revolve around how absolutely huge he is.
October 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
now to take a big sip of coffee and look up what the Oklahoma superintendent of schools has been up to
October 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The first chapter is tough honestly but it’s uphill from there.
September 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Perdido Street Station
September 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Nice! Do you just use it for the one display, or can you cycle through a bunch? I want to add a custom one for energy use monitoring. Not having to deal with the Starlark "ecosystem" would be great...
September 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM