Joel Hawksley is a software engineer based in Colorado.
We've spent the past few months integrating Herb into the GitHub.com monolith. It caught numerous bugs missed by our existing tooling and allowed us to migrate off the effectively-archived erb_lint, but a key performance blocker remains. In this talk, I'll share how you can see similar benefits in your codebase today and help improve the project ahead of its 1.0 release.
A reader asked how I integrate our Unifi baby monitor cameras into Apple Home. Here is how to combine two cameras into a split-screen view with a combined audio feed for our Apple TVs, iPhones, and Apple Watches using Scrypted and go2rtc:
I use Birdnet-Go to identify bird calls using the audio from my Ubiquiti cameras, displaying the most interesting bird detected in the past day on my Timeframe displays:
Our home was recently featured on Smart Home Solver:
Over the past decade, I've worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe:
TL;DR: Use the Home Assistant MacOS app to control smart lights based on video call status.
TL;DR: Use a power monitoring outlet to trigger Snoo notifications independent from the cloud.
TL;DR: Use a leak sensor without an alarm to detect when water in a dog bowl drops below a certain level.
TL;DR: Keep an internally public, daily journal of snippets describing the impact of your work, written with the intention of adding them to your performance review.
You’re at senior, but you’re hungry for more. What’s next? In this talk, we’ll attempt to define the staff role and help you decide if it's a good fit for your career.