In my previous company, I developed a batch job that tracked metrics across social media, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Bluesky, Reddit, etc. Then I realized I could duplicate it for my own ’persona’. The problem is that some media don ;t provide an HTTP API for the metrics I want. Here...

   Besides a regular webapp and a Mac app, which uses the same endpoints as the webapp, Home Assistant also provides mobile apps. In this post, I want to describe its advantages over the former. I ;ll use iOS to do this: Samsung ;s French partner to recycle used mobiles tricked me once, and...

   For the first post of , I ;m continuing my retrospective series. As last year, before diving in into the report proper, I ;d like to remind you that Ukraine is still fighting for its survival after nearly years and countless Russian war crimes. The civilized world can ;t...

   In the previous post of this focus, we replaced Philips Hue automation with the one from Home Assistant. One significant gap we noticed was that Home Assistant doesn ;t automatically adjust the brightness according to the time of the day, a feature Philips Hue offers. In this post, we are...

   I ;m an average Reddit user, scrolling much more than reading or interacting. Sometimes, however, a post rings a giant red bell. When I stumbled upon If you could add one feature to K s, what would it be , I knew the content would be worth it. The most voted answer is: Namespace scoped...

   This is the rd post in the My journey with Home Assistant focus series. I ;m the happy owner of a couple of Philips Hue connected lights for a some years. Some of them are colored, some of them regular. In addition, I bought a sensor to go along with the light I installed in my toilets: it...

   Home Assistant is a massive beast. It can be overwhelming for a newcomer; it was for me. In this post, I want to describe the underlying model of Home Assistant, which is a good entry point for your home automation journey. The biggest issue in describing the Home Assistant is the number of...

   This is the st post in the My journey with Home Assistant focus series. Last June, I spoke at Berlin Buzzwords. In all honesty, I rarely attend others’ talks for a variety of reasons: lack of time, lack of energy, no interest in the proposed subjects, etc. When I do, I go either for subjects I...

   How can we generate a uniform sequence of random numbers The randomness so beautifully and abundantly generated by nature has not always been easy for humans to extract and quantify. Pseudo Random Number Generators are fundamental tools in many areas of software development: PRNGs do not produce...

   I ;m coming relatively late to the LLM party, but I rarely come very early in the hype cycle. For example, I never bought into blockchain, the solution still searching for problems to solve, nor in microservices, the latest in the cargo cult IT trends. Despite my late arrival at the LLM...