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These days I write about the technology I actually use — trucks, radios, home infrastructure, and the tools that survive past the first invoice. 48 posts [willcurran.com](https://willcurran.com) Sep 12, 2026 Music ## [Let Guests Pick the Music Without Your Wi-Fi Password](https://willcurran.com/blog/guests-pick-the-music) When a guest wants to put a song on, the usual answer is the Wi-Fi password, so their phone can find the speakers. In September 2026 I worked out what that takes with Spotify Connect, and I ended up changing nothing on the network. 3 min read Sep 11, 2026 Music ## [One Set of Cameras, Two Uses: NDI in My DJ Studio](https://willcurran.com/blog/one-set-of-cameras-two-uses) I wanted one set of cameras over my DJ setup to do two jobs. On one computer, Resolume turns the feeds into effected, stylized visuals. On another, OBS uses the same feeds as clean, traditional camera shots, for example when I'm streaming ... 7 min read Sep 10, 2026 Music ## [One Calendar Drives My Twitch Schedule and Discord Events](https://willcurran.com/blog/one-calendar-twitch-discord-events) In September 2026 I built a small service that copied my stream schedule from one Google Calendar onto my Twitch schedule and into native events on my Discord server, with generated cover art on every Discord event. Google became the only ... 7 min read Sep 8, 2026 Home ## [Three Answers I Found in the Home Assistant iOS App's Source](https://willcurran.com/blog/three-answers-in-the-ios-app-source) Over three days in September 2026 I hit three small problems with the Home Assistant app on my iPhone, and each one looked like a bug. A progress notification buzzed my phone and my watch on every update. A notification tap always threw me ... 7 min read Sep 5, 2026 Home ## [20.9 GiB in 14 Days: One Integration Wrote 57% of the Rows](https://willcurran.com/blog/recorder-database-bloat) My Home Assistant history database held only 14 days and still reached 20.9 GiB, and about 57% of its rows came from one network integration rewriting device records for clients with randomized addresses. The post covers how to find your ... 5 min read Aug 30, 2026 Builds ## ["Precise" Is Less Precise](https://willcurran.com/blog/precise-is-less-precise) In Meshtastic, the map report has its own position precision setting. Set it to 32, the number that means full precision on a channel, and your node shows up on the public map less precisely than if you had picked 15. The firmware only ... 3 min read Aug 29, 2026 Builds ## [Terrain Beats Floors](https://willcurran.com/blog/terrain-beats-floors) I spent a day ranking a large university's buildings as places to put a Meshtastic router, using public lidar and public terrain data. The best sites on the university's property list were not buildings at all. They were ridge-top sites. ... 7 min read Aug 28, 2026 Home ## [What Broke When I Delegated the Contractors](https://willcurran.com/blog/delegating-the-contractors) This summer I handed my assistant the contractors: finding them, getting quotes, booking visits, following up. It had a phone line and a texting number through Twilio, a task list in Todoist and access to our calendars. The number had ... 8 min read Aug 26, 2026 Builds ## [Hears Everything, Heard by No One](https://willcurran.com/blog/heard-by-no-one) My Meshtastic station could still hear the mesh as well as it ever had, and nobody outside my house could hear it. Receive stayed flat. Transmit went to zero. That one comparison cleared the antenna, the cable and every connector before I ... 7 min read Aug 22, 2026 Home ## [Half a Light Curtain Said “Success” and Did Nothing](https://willcurran.com/blog/half-a-light-curtain) For months, a smart LED light curtain in my house wouldn't reliably do what Home Assistant told it. In August 2026 I stopped patching it and took it apart, one hypothesis at a time. 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