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...

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...

My e-ink addiction continues. After playing with Waveshare’s Photopainter panel, which has no wifi but only a microSD, I was excited to try this Seeed Reterminal 1002 frame. Same Spectra6 color e-ink panel but with an ESP32-S3 on the inside, so it has wifi and can run ESPHome!

Just a reminder: "more personalized and more helpful" is often code for "WE WILL COLLECT ALL OF YOUR DATA."

once again thinking about how overwatch excelled at building a player base that brought in non-traditional FPS genre players into the game (ie, cis women) through its innovative deprioritization of sheer mechanical skill and emphasis on strong character designs but then blizzard management choked it

California, we're hosting meetups in your state - yes, plural! 🙌🏻 Join some of us next Monday, Oct 27, in both San Francisco & San Diego. A rare double party! 🥳 SF details: luma.com/29h4hx3b SD details: luma.com/j533g5a9 Register asap - space is limited! 👀

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩 Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

One of the great things about working at an open source organization is that everyone here likes to experiment and build cool stuff on top of our products. Case in point? Connect ZWA-2 was launched just 2 months ago… and now there’s a new experiment for you: www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10...

These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

Discovered our HEMA (Dutch department store) sells rechargeable LED tealights that you can turn on and off using a simple remote control. Used my Harmony hub to learn the remote’s IR codes, now I can control them in Home Assistant and I have smart(ish) tealights 😄 www.hema.nl/wonen-slapen...

One of the world’s great indignities is the “we tried to deliver your package” lie and you’ve been there all day and have a camera out front. Bro I was legit sitting on the stoop when I got the “we tried” text

I'm not a big fan of Jack Dorsey but I have to admit that one of his better ideas was, instead of getting into posting wars with users, he would go off to a yoga castle and eat hallucinogens for two weeks

It would be good if this was matched with a call for embedding critical thinking skills in primary and secondary education across Europe.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

In a major win for brand safety, Amazon ends its’ commingling program after years of complaints from brands and sellers

Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.