As I have mentioned previously I have been been gradually Home Assistant-ifying my home. Of course, part of that means having a some control panels around. I have tried an old tablet, but was not really happy with the results. At some point I leaned about the so-called “Cheap Yellow Display” (CYD). This is a small TFT display bolted directly to an ESP32 microcontroller.

There are a few things that make this interesting:

I have a few posts in my mind that will need me to include bible passages in the pages. I could just quote them, but that is no fun and I am happy make a lot of effort to be lazy.

I am using Hugo to power this site, so I decided I would add a shortcode that would allow me to do it via an API. There are a few decisions to be made first.

A few years ago (becoming many years ago now) I was a Linux loving sound engineer. I am also a guitar player with a family which means I have not been much of a guitar player for a while now.

Well, I recently got a new (to me) laptop to replace my Pinebook Pro and I have decided to dip my feet back into music production. With that in mind I feel I can add to the conversation by giving how things are going after a few years away.