HopHop

Tech Stuff

Welcome to my corner of the web where I document my technical adventures. I've been into computers since early childhood — and well... I never really stopped.

Open source enthusiast since Windows 98 (the last one I ever used), I've been running Linux since 2000 and have a strong tendency towards self-hosting.

Here you'll mostly find:

  • Home automation: Home Assistant, Zigbee, OpenTherm and other goodies
  • Self-hosting: because my data stays at home
  • Technical workarounds: solutions to problems nobody asked to solve
  • Experience reports: the struggles, the wins, and everything in between

The goal? Document what I do so I can remember it later, and if it helps someone struggling with the same issue along the way, that's a bonus.

Happy reading!

In my article about choosing my blog stack, I mentioned wanting to connect this blog to the Fediverse. The idea: let people follow me from Mastodon or Bluesky, and get their interactions directly on my articles. No comment system to manage, no spam, no GDPR headaches. Just conversations.

And here we go again: I developed a Grav plugin for this with a lot of help from Claude. It relies on Bridgy Fed and handles all the technical stuff under the hood. Let me explain how it works and the struggles I encountered along the way.

I'd been thinking about it for a while: a personal blog to document my Home Assistant tinkering, my self-hosted experiments, and generally everything that makes me proud in my little geek corner. Something simple, not too time-consuming, and visually acceptable without having to get my hands too dirty with frontend work. Yuck.

Test de publication sur le Fediverse avec le nouveau plugin Bridgy Fed intégré à Grav.

Ce post vérifie que :

  • Les microformats h-entry sont correctement injectés
  • La h-card est présente sur la homepage
  • Le lien u-bridgy-fed déclenche la publication

Si vous voyez ce post sur Mastodon ou Bl...