Alexa, tell Chromecast to turn on TV
Connecting Alexa to Chromecast (Google Home)? Yeah, you can do that! And best of all, for free - using Custom Alexa Skill, AWS Lambda, PubNub and running a small backend server on Synology
Headless CMS comparison
For a hobby project of mine, I was thinking of using Ghost to host the content and generate the layout etc. However, no matter how great Ghost is, it is very blog-focused and
Collaborative slideshow and Spotify for your party
During one of my recent events (my wedding, actually) I wanted to do some fancy techie stuff. First to my mind came simple live slideshow - we've had a beamer at the location
Shareport + Squeezbox + Synology
I was tinkering a bit with my Synology DS213 and the Squeezebox server (Logitech Media Server). Aparently, you can use this great plugin to make every Squeeze player available as AirPlay destination. What
Nexus 9 and Android 5.0
I couldn't resist getting a new tablet. My old Nexus 7 2012 was getting so laggy I couldn't stand it. With the new Nexus 9 available I thought - why not. I have