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Self-hosted analytics review 2021

I've been hosting my own web analytics with Countly on Digitial Ocean for awhile now. It's pretty maintenance free. I had one hiccup where the logs filled the disks, but otherwise, it just keeps working. However, the version is old, and newer versions no longer…

By Jonathan Poland

DIY analytics with Digital Ocean and Countly

I transitioned away from using Google Analytics on the sites I run long ago. It was too complex and heavy, plus I like to de-Google when I can. For a short while I used Heap Analytics. Then, I stopped using advanced tracking altogether. Old school…

By Jonathan Poland

Make your older house smart with konnected.io

It's getting cold again and I was checking and repairing my weather stripping around my house. Whilst taking a close look at the doors, I noticed most of them had what looked like recessed sensors in them. Into the rabbit hole I went... I had…

By Jonathan Poland

Automating your VRBO rental with Zapier and Smart Things: Part 3

In our previous posts we've covered our motivations and a majority of the Zapier zaps needed to do our automation. In this post, we setup our custom Smart Things smart app manage our lock codes and our final Zap to call it. The smart things…

By Jonathan Poland