- My journey with Home Assistant
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Home Assistant is Open Source software that actually integrates lots of vendor-specific devices. I’m describing many ways I’m using it in this focus. If you’re into smart homes, I’m pretty sure you’ll find something useful.
- Together for a healthier Clippy
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TL;DR: When you open a Pull Request on Clippy, you’ll be asked to review another PR.
- Viability of local models for coding
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Interesting read, but I would have liked a bit more of a comparative research. One-shot experience isn’t transferable.
- 10 Cheap AliExpress Zigbee Smart Buttons Tested and Compared
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- Best button overall: Sonoff SNZB-01P [Tony]
- Fastest trigger button: Tuya SOS Button [Junior]
- Best knob button: Tuya SC20 [Adriana]
- GEDCOM, the Genealogy Data Standard
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GEDCOM (ɡɛdkɒm) is the standard for genealogical data. GEDCOM is a file format for exchanging genealogical data between different systems. GEDCOM allows you to export your genealogy data from one application, and then import it into another. GEDCOM is a de facto standard, supported by practically every genealogy application. As a user, you should make sure the genealogy software you use supports GEDCOM, so you can transfer your data from one application to another.
- Rewriting Bun in Rust
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Bun v1.4 makes Bun faster, smaller, use less memory and gives the team incredibly powerful tools for systematically improving stability going forward: Rust’s borrow checker, Miri (which runs for a growing chunk of code in CI), LeakSanitizer, and 24/7 coverage-guided fuzzing for parsers. There’s still more to refactor, but things are off to a great start.
This Rust rewrite would’ve taken a team of engineers with full-context on the codebase a year of work. With 1 engineer using Fable & closely monitoring Claude Code, we went from start to 100% of the test suite passing on all platforms in 11 days.
One engineer can do a lot more today than a year ago.
- What’s New in actions/setup-java 5.4 and 5.5: Signature Verification, Kona JDK, and a Better Maven Experience
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The title is pretty descriptive. I’m working with Github workflows and the JVM at the moment, and Renovate just made a PR with this version. While I don’t need the specific features, it’s pretty cool to see work moving forward.
- OpenCode with Llama.cpp — How it Works in Practice
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Here’s the related documentation.
I implemented it, using the
unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-GGUF:Q8_0model. So far, I’m not impressed. - Announcing Rust 1.97.0
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- Symbol mangling v0 enabled by default
- Cargo support for denying warnings
- Linker output no longer hidden by default
- Good Tools Are Invisible
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Part of why these debates turn religious is that a tool choice becomes a flag you plant—it says something about who you are. The "hacker vibe" isn’t a mere aesthetic; it’s tribal signaling, and that’s the real trap. Once your identity is invested in a tool, admitting its flaws starts to feel like admitting something about yourself. So people don’t just tolerate the flaws—they defend them, and eventually flaunt them. You cannot have an honest conversation about a tool with someone who’s decided the tool is part of their personality.
Emphasis mine.
- Iwo’s Rigor Pack
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- plan-gate: No edits until a written plan exists: goal, unknowns, success criteria, step order.
- adversarial-verify: Refute your own work before presenting it. Findings in the deliverable, never the narration.
- live-state-truth: Docs are stale by default. Verify against the live system before asserting or acting.
- scope-fence: Do exactly what was asked. Flag adjacent problems, never silently fix them.
- ruthless-editor: Every sentence earns its place. Cut 30 percent with zero information loss.
- memory-hygiene: What deserves persisting, how to write it so it survives time, and when to re-verify what you recall.
- YouTrackDB
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YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database with storage format native to handle graph relations. YouTrackDB supports Gremlin queries and ACID transactions.
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My journey with Home Assistant. Together for a healthier Clippy. Viability of local models for coding. 10 Cheap AliExpress Zigbee Smart Buttons Tested and Compared. GEDCOM, the Genealogy Data Standard. Rewriting Bun in Rust. What’s New in actions/setup-java 5.4 and 5.5: Signature Verification, Kona JDK, and a Better Maven Experience. OpenCode with Llama.cpp — How it Works in Practice. Announcing Rust 1.97.0. Good Tools Are Invisible. Iwo’s Rigor Pack. YouTrackDB.
