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I've long had a lot of IoT devices around the house, from basic switches (WeMo, TPLink, Athom, various AliExpress specials) to "proper" home automation gear from Shelly and others. I've used Home Assistant to tie them together, because Apple Home is a tire fire,
AI might be getting better, quickly. But the people making the software are not going away, same as when compilers came along, they didn't go away. We just wrote more, better software, in a different way. No different. Nolan Lawson: We mourn our craft I didn’t
I kind of feel we (and I) have turned a bit of a corner at work, with a few bits of tooling changes over the past few months. Claude is basically my search engine now. It can happily go out and look at docs for things. Sure I could go
Leonie and I, along with our friends Carol and Don, went to Doubtful Sound (via Queenstown, and back via Tekapo). And we had weather. Oh did we have weather . 180kmh (85kt) wind gusts, around 200mm of rain in a morning (on top of the 300+mm they got before that)
I've had a bit of fun recently trying to Vibe Code - in the original sense of the word - some small apps. And it's mostly worked well, at the very small scale There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where
A friend, who's recently bought a house on tank water (or rather, off main supply) asked this on Blue Sky This is something we've wrestled with over the past 11 years we've been on Waiheke, so rather than leaving it as a very long
I’ve been having a bit of fun with Amp recently. Amp is an agentic software development tool, backed onto Claude 4 Sonnet. You can interact with it via VSCode (and derivatives) or via the cli. I started out with using it to do things where I could easily
Half of the issue with learning stuff is learning what the scope you COULD do with it. So it's good to see what others are doing with a tool, and then thinking about how I could use it. This is a bit of a log of what I&
So when I started my little series on AI stuff, Apple Intelligence wasn't out. That was in about July 2024, about a month before iOS 18 came out. Now its March 2025, and for all useful purposes, Apple Intelligence is STILL not released. Yes, the iPhone 16 / e
Quite a few people writing about it at the moment - my thoughts are still forming, but there are some good bits, and common themes, in these. Simon Willison - Here's how I use LLMs to help me write code Quite a long article, and its very much worth reading
Firebase Dynamic Links is a nice way to go from a short link, to a deep link in an app, with or without the app already installed (aka Deferred Deep Link). The one problem is, Google never maintained it well, and as of August 2025, it's going away
Code reviews are always "fun" to do - you have minimal context of what the person was trying to do (without sitting down with them), but you are the gatekeeper of them merging their code. Or the code is a tiny change which doesn't really need an
In writing the post earlier about Chorus Fibre Lab , and because it's raining outside now, I thought I might go thru the thought process of building a small ISP, including the last mile of actually running cable to customers. So lets see how this goes. I'm
I've long had an interest and fascination with how infrastructure works. All the bits of kit and equipment which we take for granted, but most people don't even notice. Water delivery? Check. Hydro power stations? Sign me up. Transmission grids? Sure. Wikipedia the heck out of
Kelsey Hightower on Bluesky (and X but who's on there anymore). Article is here . 100% agree, and I've seen this recently. Times are and have changed. The neckbeard in a basement, hacking out code (then selling the dinosaur eggs ... oh wait)... its long gone. Might be