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How to Add Grok to Brave Browser: Replace Leo with xAI’s Grok AI

How to Add Grok to Brave Browser: Replace Leo with xAI’s Grok AI

If you’re like me, Brave Browser is your go-to for surfing
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Brayton Stafford
Home Assistant xAI Grok conversation agent

Home Assistant xAI Grok conversation agent

Home Assistant's year of the voice was an important milestone
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Amplify GraphQL API Key Expired?

Amplify GraphQL API Key Expired?

When developing an app on AWS Amplify I created an API key
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Home Assistant Behind a Synology Reverse Proxy

Home Assistant Behind a Synology Reverse Proxy

Documentation: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/http#use_x_forwarded_for When
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HUZZAH ESP8266 Feather / NeoPixel FeatherWing / HTTP Webserver / HTTPS API Requests / JSON Requests and Responses
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HUZZAH ESP8266 Feather / NeoPixel FeatherWing / HTTP Webserver / HTTPS API Requests / JSON Requests and Responses

There is a lot going on the the title of this post
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Creating a GIF from QuickTime Screen Recording in macOS
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Creating a GIF from QuickTime Screen Recording in macOS

Creating a GIF from QuickTime Screen Recording in macOS
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SmartThings are Groovy
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SmartThings are Groovy

One of the initial features I wanted was some way for the home and I to communicate. The Google Home seemed to allow bi-directional communication in the sense that I could speak commands and it could be a speaker to broadcast notifications or report other home metrics or SIRENS.
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Egyptian Hieroglyphics and Google Cloud AutoML Vision
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Egyptian Hieroglyphics and Google Cloud AutoML Vision

Lately I've been on a ancient history kick and while daydreaming about visiting Egypt in person I was curious to find out that only small percentage of hieroglyphics have been translated.
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Customizing the AWS EKS Cluster Worker Node Group Template
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Customizing the AWS EKS Cluster Worker Node Group Template

I realized the cluster was using the maximum number of worker nodes (NodeAutoScalingGroupMaxSize) specified in the CloudFormation template. After contacting support they informed me there is a setting in the template to control the desired capacity (DesiredCapacity).
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Useful MongoDB Commands
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Useful MongoDB Commands

I had the hardest time finding examples of how to connect to MongoDB via the command line and via a connection string in code. So I've compiled some helpful MongoDB commands here. For creating a database, creating a user, and connecting to the database.
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Using react-select with redux-form
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Using react-select with redux-form

While building an app for work I ran into a scenario that
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Creating a new Kubectl config context

Creating a new Kubectl config context

In a previous post I discussed how to view and change the
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