Rick Kendall
I’m Rick. I’m from Burnley originally, I live in Cyprus these days, and this is where I write up whatever I’ve been messing about with.
Home automation, music, the bike, a bit of travel, the odd bit of cooking, the football, and a fair amount of drivel. It’s all hobby stuff and I’m not an expert at any of it, so take it as how I do things rather than how they ought to be done.
Nothing here is for sale, there’s no mailing list, and you can’t comment. It’s a notebook that happens to be public.
Smart Home
Home Assistant automations, dashboards, sensors, and the occasional one that only works on a Tuesday.
Motorbike
Riding, maintenance, and jobs that took three times as long as planned.
Food
Occasional cooking. What worked, what did not, and the odd thing worth making again.
Recent posts
- Glass Balcony Calculator: working out the panes for a balustrade
A calculator that works out pane widths and a cutting list for glass balconies, with corner angles, the channel and plan and elevation drawings. In beta, for Cyprus…
- SecureMail: a safe, simple webmail you can run yourself
A webmail client for your own hosting: a direct replacement for Roundcube with phishing checks, two-step verification, newsletters done properly, filters and an away reply, and your own…
- Chordsmith: take a song apart and learn it by ear
The main screen, with a loop set in the first chorus. The songs in these pictures are made-up demo songs. Learning a song by ear is the best…
- Visitor Insights: why I wrote my own website stats
If you run a website, you want to know who is visiting it. The stats that come with a lot of hosting, such as AWStats in Plesk, read…
- Putting the house on the website
Live readings from the house, on a web page, without opening anything up to the internet. How it works, what I left off on purpose, and the two…