I'm Jean-Loïc, but everybody calls me JLo. I am currently the Lead of Product and UX at the Open Home Foundation (Home Assistant, Music Assistant, ESPHome). This is my blog.
Winter is coming, so it's a good time to take care of the heating in our homes. In this post, I will show how I built a complex heating system for my home using Home Assistant. I also have a secret agenda 🙈 It's to share
Hello 👋🏻 It's Wednesday morning, a perfect time to sip your coffee while I talk about a topic dear to me. Sustainability . More precisely Sustainability in hardware products. 10 months ago, two start-up founders went on stage and unveiled the Humane AI Pin. A wearable AI device
Today I am going to explain to you how to build this: 0:00 / 1× Great .... he played a song by voice. Yay Ok fine! I am going to explain to you how to build this: 0:00 / 1× 0:00 / 1× A way to play music,
VR meetings? Do they work? Is it a gimmick? (Also, where are my legs?) At Nabu Casa , all meetings (except for 1 to 1) are conducted in VR. I've been in the company for a bit more than a month, so I decided to reflect on this unusual
Beginning of September, I started a series on Twitt e r and Mastodon called Home Assistant Hot Tip of the day. I'll still post on Twitter and Mastodon, but this post act as a repository of all past tips. I'll try to keep it as up-to-date
I have been working in Product for 7 years now. I don't consider myself skilled as I believe I will never stop learning. However, if there is one type of individual that seems to enjoy how I work, how I approach my job, and how I interact with
Over my 7 years of experience in Product, I have managed to be predictable only for the last 8 months. This article shed some light on how. What is predictability? As in every company, my team and I are asked to be predictable. At a certain point in time, we
Dont fall in love with your code. Fall in love with the results you deliver to users. This is what Jeremy Seitz said to all engineers when he was CTO at Ricardo . When I asked Jeremy if I could quote him for this post he gave me a bit more
The origin story One of my 2020 New Year resolutions was "A month without social network". The least I can say is that it was an enabler for me 💪 I spent way too much time in front of my screen endlessly scrolling for my next shot of