Maybe I’ll give them a go for my next automation! Thanks for the recommendation.

I do have a hub — using HomeAssistant with AppDaemon.

Nice, ordered one of those switches!

Yeah, I like the smart switch/sensor + dumb bulb approach too.

Yes – should’ve described that aspect. The shape of the entryway means that none of the existing switches has a good view of all the area I’d like a motion sensor to trigger on. Otherwise that would be the way to go!

Ugh, yep!

Though in this case I guess there’s the benefit of engraved numbers providing accessibility.

Seems cool!

Does it handle sharing a task list between people? Or syncing between multiple clients / handling concurrent edits?

I see the manual says keyboard commands are the main way to control it. Does it work in mobile?

Looks like you’re putting lots of work into it, thanks for sharing.

Is there a self hosted OpenTelemetry consumer?

Company started on Asana, individual teams jumped to Jira, company eventually followed. I was always accidentally creating blank tickets in Asana.

At some point I realized people often ask a question but don’t really care about you answering that specifically. “How are you” -> actually I can just tell a story about a hobby related problem I’m working on, and not try to represent my emotional state.

I’m not sure if this is one of those cases, but I could see “what do you want for birthday dinner” as actually meaning “I want to do something nice for you” and if you’d rather pick the night’s board game it might satisfy the exchange and make everyone just as happy. Though some people might really want to express care via cooking / feel it’s important you engage on that topic.

Part of my inspiration to learn to program was that I wanted to blink my capslock key. Did learn to program, did learn Morse, never did that project.

Yeah, if you don’t want the next dev (or your future self) to accidentally undo that corner case you fixed, better put a unit test on it.

I wonder how it was sealed. Is glazed ceramic + wax that airtight? The article (nor many very similar ones from other sites) doesn’t give specifics.

Just being forced to talk about how it’s going and what’s blocking can be helpful, so I’m glad you’re questioning for to be more useful, not doing a little rubber-ducking isn’t all bad.

“I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years,” Gretta Pecl of the University of Tasmania told The Guardian. “[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event, food production will be disrupted. I could not feel greater despair over the future.”

But, reason to keep fighting:

Others found hope in the climate activism and awareness of younger generations, and in the finding that each extra tenth of a degree of warming avoided protects 140 million people from extreme temperatures.

The headline doesn’t say anything about what I might expect to find in the article, it just claims it’s gonna be great.

Depending on the code, I have a hard time following things longer than a couple hundred lines. I didn’t know if that’s typical, though spaghetti code is certainly common. I do push harder than many people to factor out helpers, but ultimately it leads to cleaner, more testable code.

Am vegan. Did not like hot dog. Do not like vegan hot dog.

By the way, miso paste is a remarkable umami ingredient, and Vegetable Kingdom has some great plants-are-actually-delicious recipes.

Where does the NYPD keep getting these expensive but apparently useless robots?

Right. I care less about 60% less power, and more about will it randomly connect my phone to my car as my partner drives away instead to the speakers I was already using on the desk next to me.

There’s still a huge racial disparity in tech work forces. For one example, at Google according to their diversity report (page 66), their tech workforce is 4% Black versus 43% White and 50% Asian. Over the past 9 years (since 2014), that’s an increase from 1.5% to 4% for Black tech workers at Google.

There’s also plenty of news and research illuminating bias in trained models, from commercial facial recognition sets trained with >80% White faces to Timnit Gebru being fired from Google’s AI Ethics group for insisting on admitting bias and many more.

I also think it overlooks serious aspects of racial bias to say it’s hard. Certainly, photographic representation of a Black face is going to provide less contrast within the face than for lighter skin. But that’s also ingrained bias. The thing is people (including software engineers) solve tough problems constantly, have to choose which details to focus on, rely on our experiences, and our experience is centered around outselves. Of course racist outcomes and stereotypes are natural, but we can identify the likely harmful outcomes and work to counter them.

Yeah, I just got a few of the CloudFree Motion Light Switches and am quite happy with them. I had some trouble initially but then figured out I needed my 2.4GHz network to have a fixed channel, apparently that’s a common thing with Tasmota on some chips. Now I have one pair acting as main/remote for my basement lights, and some others just acting as motion sensing switches but with the benefit of being able to monitor motion remotely.