I recently switched our car to a used Toyota bz4x. For those who don't know, it's much like Toyota RAV4 but a fully electric version of it. Unlike our old RAV4, bz4x is constantly online. It only means one thing: I'm going to monitor it with my dear Zabbix.

Creating the integration

I cannot take much credit for this integration, as to be honest, much of this integration was actually created by Claude. I did tell it about my Zabbix, the car I have, and pretty soon I had a working integration cobbled together.

Basically Claude created few files for me:

Did you know you can use your MacBook Pro trackpad as a scale? Now you know. Did you know that you can also monitor the recordings with Zabbix? Of course you can! 

I stumbled upon TrackPad Weight Scale and I couldn't help myself, I just had to try it out.

Installing TrackPad Weight Scale

Installation was almost as smooth as the GitHub page promises; throw in few commands and you are done. Well, in my case I had to change Sources/TrackPadWeight/TrackPadMonitor.swift line 134 from 

Hint to this blog post came from my Forcepoint colleague -- today I visited our Helsinki office after a long break and looks like that at least one of my colleagues follows my blog. With Raspberry Pi and any device using SD cards, there's this real fear of sudden hardware failure of the said SD card. Writing lots and lots of data to them will eventually make them go bad. But can you predict that with Zabbix? Of course you can!

Currently with my home ISP, no ports are open from the outside world to my home, and that's a pretty tight rule. 

Luckily, Tailscale allows me easy access to my selected devices from anywhere I may roam. Using Tailscale requires an account, but at home and smaller scale is free to use. There would also be self-hosted Headscale, but for now I'm using Tailscale as it was so easy and fast to take into use.

Bad Apple animation is like Doom, it runs on everything and everywhere. It's been ported to C64, Amiga, Atari ST. It's been running inside Minecraft in few different ways. It's been ported to physical world. 

Let's vibe code

The other day I installed OpenAI's Codex to my personal MacBook. Little did I know what would happen if I would prompt it to create a custom Zabbix 7.0 widget which brings Bad Apple meme to life on Zabbix. 

I had an Asuswrt-Merlin based home router for many years. However, my trusty ASUS RT-AX68U started to misbehave badly -- most of the CPU time spent on I/O wait for no clear reason, dropping especially 2.4 GHz connections and more. 

I then stumbled upon a very affordable ASUS RT-AX59U.Not the latest and greatest, but it had something I wanted: good support for OpenWrt. It was time for me to try out something else than Asuswrt-Merlin just to be different.

Would you like to be able to tell your manager much faster how often some alert happens and how rapidly that particular alert usually gets resolved? How about how often the alert has happened during the past 30 days compared to previous 30 days? I have great news for you!

This year marks the 40th year of my life with computers. 🎂 Like for so many others, my journey began back in 1986 with Commodore 64. What a journey it has been!

We have a separate garage building maybe 10-20 meters away from our main building. In our garage, we have a small yet cozy little room for guests or for second home office purposes.

This post is very much related to my previous post -- how our kid now excitedly turns our lights on and off from wall switch. Before the phase we are now living through, our lights were managed either automatically or through Cozify app, so we could put whatever scene would be suitable on, to turn on multiple lights with the brightness level and color we want.