--- title: Writing — Will Curran (2) description: "Notes on the technology I actually use: the truck, the radios, the home infrastructure, and the tools that survive past the first invoice. (2)" image: https://willcurran.com/hubfs/will-curran-brand/will-curran-og.png --- [Skip to content](https://willcurran.com/blog/page/2#main) [Will Curran](https://willcurran.com/) [Home](https://willcurran.com/) [Portfolio](https://willcurran.com/portfolio) [Press](https://willcurran.com/media) [Blog](https://willcurran.com/blog) [Favorites](https://willcurran.com/favorites) [Speaking](https://willcurran.com/speaking) [Consulting](https://willcurran.com/consult) [Hire Will](https://willcurran.com/hire) [All](https://willcurran.com/blog) [Builds](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/builds) [Events](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/events) [Home](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/home) [Music](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/music) Search the blog [Subscribe](https://willcurran.com/blog/subscribe) ## Writing 42 posts [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/the-veto-that-never-retries-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=the-veto-that-never-retries-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/the-veto-that-never-retries) Home Sep 18, 2026 · 7 min read ### [The Veto That Never Retries](https://willcurran.com/blog/the-veto-that-never-retries) In September a bathroom in my house stayed lit for nearly nine hours because a humidity sensor read 51 when the rule wanted it under 50. Thirteen minutes later it read 48, and nothing happened. The automation that ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/a-switch-that-feeds-smart-bulbs-is-not-a-light-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=a-switch-that-feeds-smart-bulbs-is-not-a-light-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/a-switch-that-feeds-smart-bulbs-is-not-a-light) Home Sep 17, 2026 · 5 min read ### [A Switch That Feeds Smart Bulbs Is Not a Light](https://willcurran.com/blog/a-switch-that-feeds-smart-bulbs-is-not-a-light) For four days in September 2026, a room-wide "lights off" automation in my Home Assistant setup cut the power to a set of smart bulbs 75 times. Every one of those runs reported success, and every time anyone looked, the ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/drop-list-without-leaving-twitch-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=drop-list-without-leaving-twitch-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/drop-list-without-leaving-twitch) Music Sep 15, 2026 · 5 min read ### [Getting Viewers onto My Drop List Without Leaving Twitch](https://willcurran.com/blog/drop-list-without-leaving-twitch) I wanted someone watching my Twitch stream to type a phone number into a box under the video and land on my Laylo drop list, without opening a new tab. The code took one evening in September 2026. [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/healthy-but-blind-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=healthy-but-blind-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/healthy-but-blind) Music Sep 13, 2026 · 7 min read ### [A Healthy Container and a Blind DJ App](https://willcurran.com/blog/healthy-but-blind) For 1 hour and 42 minutes, the app that tells my stream what I'm playing didn't see a single track. The whole time, its container reported healthy and its overlay page answered every request. I had power-cycled my decks ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/guests-pick-the-music-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=guests-pick-the-music-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/guests-pick-the-music) Music Sep 12, 2026 · 3 min read ### [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 ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/one-set-of-cameras-two-uses-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=one-set-of-cameras-two-uses-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/one-set-of-cameras-two-uses) Music Sep 11, 2026 · 7 min read ### [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 ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/one-calendar-twitch-discord-events-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=one-calendar-twitch-discord-events-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/one-calendar-twitch-discord-events) Music Sep 10, 2026 · 7 min read ### [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. ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/three-answers-in-the-ios-app-source-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=three-answers-in-the-ios-app-source-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/three-answers-in-the-ios-app-source) Home Sep 8, 2026 · 7 min read ### [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 ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/recorder-database-bloat-featured.png?width=800&height=500&name=recorder-database-bloat-featured.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/recorder-database-bloat) Home Sep 5, 2026 · 5 min read ### [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 ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/precise-is-less-precise-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=precise-is-less-precise-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/precise-is-less-precise) Builds Aug 30, 2026 · 3 min read ### ["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. ... [← Newer](https://willcurran.com/blog/page/1) [1](https://willcurran.com/blog/page/1) [2](https://willcurran.com/blog/page/2) [3](https://willcurran.com/blog/page/3) [4](https://willcurran.com/blog/page/4) [5](https://willcurran.com/blog/page/5) [Older →](https://willcurran.com/blog/page/3) Show more posts That's everything: 42 posts. ## Get each post by email the morning it goes up. One email per post. No digest, no sponsors, no course. Unsubscribe link at the bottom of every one. 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