Will Cooke (8none1)

Software engineer, podcaster, Linux enthusiast

Welcome to whizzy.org, the personal website of Will Cooke (aka 8none1).

About Will Cooke

Will Cooke is a software engineer, engineering manager and Linux developer based in the United Kingdom. He works at Chainguard on the OS team, co-hosts the Late Night Linux podcast, and was previously Director of Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical.

This site collects articles about software development, Linux, Ubuntu, Home Assistant, solar energy, self-hosting and open source. Learn more about Will Cooke or read the recent posts below.

The hidden Home Assistant setting that frees your Bluetooth proxy connection slots

Posted on 7 June 2026

My BLE light controllers were each holding a Bluetooth proxy connection open forever, quietly starving everything else of slots. The fix turned out to be a setting that already ships in Home Assistant, does exactly the right thing, and is almost impossible to find. Here's why you'd want it, why... [Read More]

Writing setup docs for an AI: a pattern for small, complex projects

Posted on 16 May 2026

I built a small podcast publisher this weekend, hit the usual nine-step README problem, and ended up doing something different — writing a setup playbook addressed to an AI assistant instead of to a human. Here's why I think this is going to be the right shape of documentation for... [Read More]

Eufy X8 robot vacuum, local control, and a Home Assistant integration that actually works

Posted on 16 May 2026

The Eufy X8 lives on the older Tuya platform, not the AIOT/protobuf cloud the rest of the Eufy range uses. The existing Home Assistant integrations don't know about this and silently fail. I wrote one that talks to it directly over LAN — no cloud after setup, full vacuum control,... [Read More]

Octopus Energy Free Electricity Sessions: Official GraphQL API!

Posted on 10 November 2025

Octopus Energy now has an official GraphQL API for Free Electricity Sessions - no more email scraping! Here's how to integrate it with Home Assistant. [Read More]

Free Electricity Sessions

Posted on 14 September 2024

How to Use Octopus Power Ups and Free Electricity Session JSON Objects in Home Assistant [Read More]

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