Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

That's a wrap on State of the Open Home 2026! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us in Utrecht and watching worldwide! We are so excited for the year ahead. Let's build in the open together!

The Artemis II mission reminds me of these 1960s photos of NASA astronauts training in Iceland because they felt the terrain would be similar to what they'd encounter on the moon. The outfits are so great, even some 60 years later.

We are Live! 🎤 State of the Open Home 2026 is here! We're talking about what's up next for the Home Assistant (and other projects), how we're building in 2026, and sharing some huge wins from the year gone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyAL...

It's not too late to pick up one the last tickets and come hang out with me and the team this Wednesday in Utrecht! events.openhomefoundation.org/sotoh26/

I’ve been playing around with Claude Code to create and improve some custom integrations for my smart home, and I was surprised by how well it works! Even managed to get my Tuneshine working by just feeding Claude the API spec. A quick blog: style.oversubstance.net/2026/04/usin...

You asked and we listened! For years, the community has been asking for a new design in Home Assistant. Something modern and timeless, something to match the power of the platform. We’re pleased to announce that an improved UI trial is now available. 👇

Join us at TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, for State of the Open Home 2026! 🇳🇱 Tickets include casual dinner, drinks, and a chance to connect with the community at the live event! See you there? sotoh.openhomefoundation.org

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For you lucky people joining us in Utrecht, NL 🇳🇱 for State of the Open Home 2026, we've just released our program! 🗓️ If you don't have your ticket yet, a few are still available. sotoh.openhomefoundation.org #SOTOH26 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 💐 About 1/4 of employees at the @openhomefoundation.org#InternationalWomensDayidentify as a woman - today we highlight just a few of those who work both behind the scenes and front & center on the foundation's projects. Meet Annika, Ilenia, Laura, and Nadine! 🥰 #HomeAssistant #WomenInTech

The @openhomefoundation.org partnerships team is growing, and we need someone who loves building relationships as much as we love building @home-assistant.io! Are you part relationship-builder, part deal-closer, part open-source ambassador? Check out:

The @openhomefoundation.org partnerships team is growing, and we need someone who loves building relationships as much as we love building @home-assistant.io! Are you part relationship-builder, part deal-closer, part open-source ambassador? Check out:

Meet the speakers of SOTOH26! 🎙 They'll be taking to the stage on Wednesday, 8 April to celebrate building in the open with our community, share successes and get excited about what's coming next. Join us online or in person. Limited tickets available: sotoh.openhomefoundation.org/ #HomeAssistant

Tickets on sale NOW! 🎟️ Your chance to join our live audience has arrived! Be part of the inspiring conversations, lively debate, and creative energy that flows when Open Home advocates get together! #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant

For those who use my HA-Meural custom component for Netgear Meural Canvas devices in Home Assistant, a major new release just dropped. V2 was largely rewritten using Claude Code, to help me update to modern HA best practices. github.com/GuySie/ha-me...

spotted on ravelry: the pattern to knit the sock pictured on the Wikipedia article for "sock" www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

uh holy SHIT?

I’m actually so stuck on Andrej excitedly sharing this seemingly-impressive use of AI, which actually recapitulates tons of existing work to create new and exciting security issues. Any human engineer would have been like, idk dude just use Home Assistant

It is surprising to me that none of the major platforms have actual _parental control_ features so that we can limit the amount of time that our parents can spend online, and which apps they’re allowed to use. I don’t worry about my teenager’s use of the internet at all, just my octogenarian dad’s.

"Contrary to popular belief and what the salespeople at Brookstone and ad copy in Skymall will tell you, nobody in history has ever used a whiskey stone." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-...

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE

Can't opt out is MONSTROUS. reactormag.com/new-kindle-f...

"Keep standing in line for cronuts, listening to Mumford & Sons, and watching videos of men unboxing sneakers. We know we complained about these things in the past, but we’ve come to realize that you, the man who brews beer in our closet, are the most evolved of your species."

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

Inasmuch as I explicitly model my starship names in the Interdependency series on what Iain Banks was doing in The Culture, my presence in this headline is superfluous; nevertheless I will take it www.geeknative.com/216328/a-spa...

Imagine every LinkedIn bro walking back all their 2022 arguments. Imagine!

Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers — again

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

Did you miss the interview @frenck.social did with @github.com during Universe '25? Don't worry, they put it in blog form for you! 👏🏻 "We don't build Home Assistant - the community does." Couldn't have said it better. 😌 #HomeAutomation #SmartHome #HomeAssistant

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

"Your pattern of reluctance cannot hold; the dam will break at some point. Every year, you read 'backgammon set' as one of my lovely gift suggestions, and every year you scroll right past it as if you know better than me. Let’s be clear: you don’t."

For our Dutch followers and people with access to Dutch TV 🇳🇱 Tomorrow Signal's president @meredithmeredith.bsky.social in #Buitenhof (pronounce as: "BOW-tun-hoff" but we'll count "TV" as correct) It's about #signal #privacy & #bigtech 📺Nov 30, 12:10 CET Channel: NPO1 www.vpro.nl/buitenhof/ar...

This constant psychoanalysing of one another is what Sartre was talking about when he said “hell is other people”.

Wrote a blog this week on how to build this @home-assistant.io epaper digital art frame, based on the @seeedstudio.com E1002, an IKEA picture frame, my ESPHome config and two 3D printed spacers. Guide and all files available here:

We've invested heavily in a clown shoe factory and are honestly baffled why people don't see the value add (and commensurate price increase) of unremoveable clown shoes added to every order. We prioritize safe clown shoes, and will help you learn to walk in them, why don't you want them???

We believe Matter is changing the trajectory of the smart home industry for the better – which is why we're thrilled the developer of matter.js has donated it to the Open Home Foundation! Discover how we plan to take an active role in shaping the future of this standard 👇🏼 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome

What is GEO if not this? It's already happening.

Wrote a blog this week on how to build this @home-assistant.io epaper digital art frame, based on the @seeedstudio.com E1002, an IKEA picture frame, my ESPHome config and two 3D printed spacers. Guide and all files available here:

The Zork games have been properly open sourced with the MIT license 😍 opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... These were some of the first computer games I ever played back on our IBM 8086 PC. So many good memories.

📣 INTRODUCING HOME ASSISTANT CONNECT ZBT-2 🥳 Designed by our friends at Nabu Casa, the successor to ZBT-1 is the best way to easily connect your Zigbee or Thread devices to Home Assistant. 💪🏻 Find where to get yours today ➡️ www.home-assistant.io/connect/zbt-... #HomeAssistant #SmartHome

Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.

I’ve started using the @seeedstudio.com reTerminal E1002 color e-ink display as a digital art frame! Runs on ESPHome and pulls images from my @home-assistant.io server 🥳 Quite pleased with it, more details in 🧵

I’ve started using the @seeedstudio.com reTerminal E1002 color e-ink display as a digital art frame! Runs on ESPHome and pulls images from my @home-assistant.io server 🥳 Quite pleased with it, more details in 🧵

Home Assistant 2025.11 is here! 🎉 🎯 Brand new target picker with full context 🤖 New way to add triggers, conditions, and actions 🏷️ Flexible entity naming in dashboard cards 🥧 Energy pie charts! Plus tons of new integrations and improvements! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/11...

my steel pan brings all the boys to maillard

that's me in the corner that's me in the float point losing my precision

😯 We did it again - we made the @github.com Octoverse report as a top open source project on GitHub! 🥳 We can't understate it: it's because of the community that we accomplished this. Thousands of you contributed to this achievement - here's to you! #OpenSource🍻

More e-ink nerd stuff! A while back I was experimenting with dithering with realistic e-ink colors as opposed to the primary color palette. Lotsa manual Photoshop stuff. Turns out the guys at Paperlesspaper have made an open source library to do exactly that! paperlesspaper.de/en/blog/dith...