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What is self hosting?

Learn about self hosting, popular self hosted services, pros and cons, and whether self hosting is for you.

Greeting / Search bar for Organizr

Add a personalized time based greeting (ex.Good morning, Jesse) and Google search bar to your Organizr home page.

Homepage for Tesla

A self hosted, personal homepage for use inside your Tesla - organize your favorite bookmarks and launch them in fullscreen (automatically dimming your Tesla's interior and exterior lights).

Create windows like shortcuts with parameters

Create a Windows like shortcut with parameters on the Mac.

Best settings for the Sony A7R III Alpha mirrorless camera

My personal best settings to get the most out of the Sony a7R III mirrorless camera.

Web Development

Convert spreadsheet data to markdown

An online tool to easily convert spreadsheet/table data to markdown.

Why I switched from Blue Iris

While Blue Iris remains one of the top, cost effective solutions for DIY home surveillance enthusiasts, its no longer my tool of choice.

Fixing missing/broken links in Ghost

Fix your website's missing/broken links through redirection in Ghost.

Organizing Ghost Posts in Tag Subdirectories

Organize your Ghost posts in subdirectories of their primary tags (ex. jesseweb.com/shell/create-an-array/)

Controlling a Boxee Box from an IR Remote

Control your Boxee box from any IR Remote (ex. Harmony One)

Resetting Your Boxee Box

Reset a troublesome Boxee box (or reinitialize it to be like brand new)

Unlock Your Cadillac CUE

Unlock your Cadillac CUE system to enable text messaging, navigation in motion, video in motion, and more.

Optimizing Blue Iris

Optimize Blue Iris for high quality recording, server responsiveness, reliability, and overall usability.

Home Automation

Motion Time Brightness

When motion detected, turn on a light to half brightness during 1AM and 6AM and full brightness during any other time - using Home Assistant and Node-RED.

Home Automation

Automatic Humidity Fan

Automatically turn on a fan when humidity is high (ex. showering); automatically turn the fan off when humidity lowers - using Home Assistant and Node-RED.

Home Automation

Automatic Humidity Light

Automatically turn on a light and change color based on high (red), medium (green), and low (blue) humidity - using Home Assistant and Node-RED.

Home Automation

Automate craft ice on your LG refrigerator

Automate making slow melting, round ice cubes (craft ice) on your LG refrigerator

Get Local IP Address

Get your local IP address using shell scripting

Get Current WAN IP

Get your current WAN IP using shell scripting

List Plex Movie Duplicates

List duplicate movies for a given Plex server and library using Python

List Plex Movies

List movies for a given Plex server and library using Python

List Plex Playlists

List playlists for a given Plex server using Python

List Plex non-HEVC Movies

List movie files not HEVC encoded (ex. h264) for a given Plex server and library using Python

List Plex Shows

List shows for a given Plex server and library using Python

Merge Key=Value Files

Merge Key=Value files (ex. .env, .ini) through shell scripting.