One night in October I played a house set on my Twitch channel, and my own chat bot kept telling the room it was drum and bass. The bot knew my library well. What it didn't know was what I was actually playing that night. On the same night, regulars got ...
Read the postFor a garage that hit about 119°F, the first spec I checked on a mini-split was the hottest outdoor temperature it is rated to cool at, and two well-known units I checked stop at 115°F. A 129°F figure from my research ...
At a live show the console can say everything is fine, and you still walk to the back of the room to listen. I spent sixteen years building Endless Events, and this post carries that habit into my DJ, music and home ...
I DJ by looping a track and layering more over it. For a while my stream named only the first one. Chat got song 1, then nothing, while the rest of the build played on top. When I dug in, I found two separate causes, ...
The request was one sentence: "when movie mode is enabled, the robot vacuum must not run." I built it and tested it the same day, during a real movie. Doing it properly took three layers, not one: block the start, send ...
On October 16, 2026 I moved my front-yard lights off the color scenes stored on the Philips Hue hub and onto an engine I built in Home Assistant. It has 46 looks and fades every bulb on its own. The lights took one ...
When I build a "best of" playlist of an artist's live sets, fans' upvotes decide which sets go on it, and the source of each recording decides which version to use. I worked these rules out on a Tipper playlist in ...
My house dims itself in the evening. Lights go warm, then down to a nightlight glow, and that is exactly what you don't want at a party. The obvious fix is to switch off the evening scene. There was no such scene to ...
A canary built to catch one bad state passed exactly that state, because grep -c prints 0 and also exits non-zero. The post ends with copyable self-tests that run a known-bad and a known-good input through a check in ...
Since June I have been running a game show on a radio network where one message tops out at 200 bytes, takes up to about two and a half seconds to send, and may never arrive. My trivia bot asks a question every hour on ...
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