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Last week I facilitated a panel called "What the agentic shift means for your website," with [Neha Khawas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neha-khawas/) (Principal Solutions Engineer, Contentful) and [Brian Browning](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbrowning/)

The [previous article in this series](/2026/05/17/the-interface-layer-web-dashboard/) ended with a line I believed at the time: "one source, multiple interfaces, no sync meeting required."

7:15am.

Three hours into a client day in Amsterdam.

Saturday morning.

Tuesday morning.

I tried Getting Things Done (GTD) three times.

A meeting request landed in my calendar.

Every morning I open a terminal and type three words: "plan my day."

A lot has changed since I wrote my original articles about ESPHome.

Last week I presented at one of the largest developer conferences in the world; Next.js Conf.

The recordings of the SUGCON event are now available including the keynote that Jason and I delivered on Friday morning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Composable DXP is all the rage.

A lot of activities around my job and hobbies are not easy to share.

This article will provide you with a walkthrough on how you can build a water usage meter sensor that integrates with your Home Assistant for under 10 $/EURO without the need for any soldering or coding skills.

Some places in the Netherlands have city heating.

I make a lot of presentations using PowerPoint and I'm also on the receiving end of a lot of presentation.

***UPDATE January 2026*: This article is now outdated.

I've been invited to participate in Sitecore Strategy lunch of December.