Today we're publishing our list of recommendations on how to build long-lived IoT devices. We're trying to address the factors that lead to your smart thermostat losing functionality or even dying altogether when the manufacturer decides to stop supporting it. It doesn't have to be this way.

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Boring Is What We Wanted https://512pixels.net/2025/10/boring-is-what-we-wanted/

SF folks! I built a site over the weekend that helps you quickly check if an apartment is rent controlled using public SF Gov data. Still ironing out a few bugs, but I’d love your feedback. rentcontrolchecker.com

Writing Swift for tiny devices: an article on Playdate game Four Corners, recently rewritten in Swift for faster performance news.play.date/news/four-co... TL;DR "Any game that is particularly demanding that you would typically want to write in C could probably be achieved with Swift."

The open weight OpenAI models are out LFG!!!!!! AND theres 120B and a 20B option that can run on laptops! Downloading the 20B now with ollama

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I have the one and only 24k gold Home Assistant Voice PE @home-assistant.io

My favorite new feature in iOS 26 beta! Hopefully this makes it full release.

@liss.bsky.social I think you need to update your website. 👀@siracusa.social

This shows the true power of open. Skylord123 didn’t need permission from Home Assistant or Pebble to make and publish this app. A 10 year old watch is now talking to state of the art voice assistants via Home Assistant. Open technologies for the win.

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I find it incredibly funny that Apple is enabling Apple Intelligence by default in the same update it is also scaling back one of the flagship features because of controversies.

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