The Chicken Coop

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.

AI might be getting better, quickly.

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.

Leonie and I, along with our friends Carol and Don, went to Doubtful Sound (via Queenstown, and back via Tekapo).

I've had a bit of fun recently trying to Vibe Code - in the original sense of the word - some small apps.

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 thread, I thought I'd put

I’ve been having a bit of fun with Amp recently.

Half of the issue with learning stuff is learning what the scope you COULD do with it.

So when I started my little series on AI stuff, Apple Intelligence wasn't out.

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.

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).

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.

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.

I've long had an interest and fascination with how infrastructure works.

Kelsey Hightower on Bluesky (and X but who's on there anymore).