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joostlekon Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

I'd love to see what's needed to get some of these integrations in core!

joostlekon Uv, a fast Python package and project manager

Uv has been awesome so far. It brought the release time for Home Assistant down from an hour and a half to about 15 minutes.

Also installing all the dependencies from scratch used to give you enough time to grab lunch and drink coffee, and now we can only grab the coffee in that time!

joostlekon Making my own bed sensor

I did put in a lot of work to make the integration with HA as nice as possible. Their API is nice and they provide it for free. I am secretly hoping they aren't becoming the next MyQ where they want to avoid it.

They even recently launched their Withings+ subscription, so they are trying to bring in more revenue. Their other revenue stream (apart from selling devices) is some kind of reseller program. Let's hope they can make it sustainable so we can enjoy our devices.

joostlekon The Home Assistant Green is here

I think the best way to discover you want to do something with smart home is seeing someone else do it. Then you can advice this to them and have less fear of becoming "the tech support".

joostlekon Incident with Issues and Pull Requests

I was greeted with a "Please give us this UUID when you report this bug" twice and I thought it was a Github breaking repo. love it

joostlekon Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?

Make it more stable.

Everybody in my class started with Visio, they almost all went to alternatives due to unreliability. Crashes with no autosave files happened way too often.