The BOM Radar Was Still There. I Put It Back in Home Assistant
When the endpoint behind an established Home Assistant card disappeared, I rebuilt the missing bridge to BOM's new tiled map and kept it working.
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Ashton
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Systems Engineer and IT consultant working across infrastructure, healthcare IT, automation, and practical security.
About Ashton
I’m a systems engineer and IT consultant based in Australia. I work across Microsoft 365, infrastructure, healthcare IT, troubleshooting, and the cleanup work that keeps systems reliable.
Outside client work, I build practical tools like Pear and the BOM Radar Card, and keep a foot in security research when it is useful.
Posts by Ashton
Found. Is the Company Merch Catalog I Wanted to Exist
I built FoundMerch.com to collect and preserve interesting company merch in one searchable place. This is how I curate it and how the scraper turns 42 very different stores into one catalog.
11 min readReadChatGPT Desktop with Codex on Windows: Store, Winget, and WSL
Install the unified ChatGPT desktop app with Codex on Windows from Microsoft Store, use winget, and choose between native PowerShell and WSL.
3 min readReadPear: iCloud for AI Agents
I built an MCP server that gives Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor full access to your iCloud Calendar, Reminders, and Contacts. Here's how it works.
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