
Calendar integration betwen Home Assistant and AppDaemon
Creating automations based on events in your calendar can enhance the autonomy of your Home Assistant setup quite a lot. Setting it up using AppDaemon is - sadly - not straight forward though.

Booting ZFS on Linux on Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 (2021)
Booting Linux with ZFS on Root on my Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 requires a kernel module in initramfs.

Fixing bass heavy sound on the Nvidia Shield TV Pro
After setting up a new AV receiver in my home entertainment system, I noticed a severe degradation in sound quality, caused by the stereo upmix feature of the Nvidia Shield TV.

Investigating inconspicuous ZFS CKSUM Errors
My home NAS was giving READ and CKSUM errors on two distinct HDDs in different mirrors of the same pool, which turned out to be a much bigger issue than anticipated. Let's investigate.

The (tech) life of Markus Ressel
Since this is the first real post on my personal website, I thought I should tell you a little about myself. In this post, I talk about how I originally started programming, what events brought me to Android, and how that evolved later on.