Wrote a few posts about home assistant https://barnes.tech/blog/home-assistant

I’m skeptical but also surprised in a good way that they did this in response to the backlash https://therecord.media/ring-ends-partnership-with-flock-superbowl-ad

iMessages in iCloud were announced in 2017. It's crazy how often it still just straight up doesn't work, 9 years later.

I’m so tired of real life being like a truly terribly written crime movie that no one would watch because all of the criminals are comically horrible https://www.404media.co/government-loses-hard-drives-it-was-supposed-to-put-ice-detention-center-footage-on/

How did I not know you could do ⌘ + Option + C in Finder to copy the path directly?! 🤯 I've always held down option while right clicking to go down to the "copy as path" option. This is a game changer!

I should not have tried the Claude Opus fast mode... It's sooooo good, and SOOO expensive!

Oh boy. I always steered people away from NameCheap (and GoDaddy) but this is next level. https://youtu.be/gPcB2VdzeKo

Been using it for about an hour now, and so far it seems really good - https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6

Trying to help my parents with an issue at their house... Man I hate Comcast. They somehow continue to get worse over time. (Spoiler, they were the problem to begin with too)

Imagine if they had kept Stadia around 😒 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxkGdX4WIBE

I’m so tired of space Karen. It’s unbelievable to me how disconnected from reality he is. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/elon-musk-accused-of-making-up-math-to-squeeze-134b-from-openai-microsoft/

"Ralph Wiggum Loop" is a very strange artifact of AI hype

RE: https://sciences.social/@alfiekohn/115883311582570730 “Pro life”…

Apparently I’m in the minority of Apple nerds about this but I like the icons in the menus of Tahoe. They should be optional I guess but I kind of like them. The enormous rounded corners and unreadable parts of the UI are far more offensive to me.

Shot / chaser

Youtube knows me uncomfortably well...

Much more concerning, in my opinion, to see things like this as a result of AI. Big companies laying off engineers is just greed, not AI replacing people, but open source projects no longer being able to run businesses is a much bigger threat, and really sad to see - […]

😑 https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/01/utah-allows-ai-to-autonomously-prescribe-medication-refills/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/115856411311146251 OpenAI also said they wouldn’t add ads, but looks like that’s not so true either. This seems like a terrible idea.

I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me: Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say. This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity. Thought it […]

4 #css Features Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2026 https://nerdy.dev/4-css-features-every-front-end-developer-should-know-in-2026

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/115851225596115312 Enshittification - Engage

This makes me real sad. The Starling hub has been one of those tech products that just hits WAY above it's weight in value for me. I wish I could pay them more or a subscription honestly to keep them doing what they have been.

Fun fact - Bill Nye’s full name is William New Years Eve

Despite all of the amount of money completely ruining college football, they somehow can't broadcast it any better than 720p. And now it's going at about 1 frame per second. Real cool.

I've been really leaning in on the 1Password CLI lately. Honestly previously just hadn't had time to really dig in on it, but man it's awesome. #1password

The Paladin in Diablo 4 is incredibly fun

We had a former employee that I haven't had time to go through their notes or files since they were let go. Finally did it today. I genuinely don't know how but he would just take screenshots of different things, including handwritten notes, and that was how he "took notes". They were all named […]

NIST: No Password Expirations CIS WorkBench: Password has Expired please Reset your Password... 🤦🏼‍♂️

^ Perpetuating a two tier system. Not creating. https://www.techmeme.com/251214/p15#a251214p15

I got a 3D printer about a week ago. I only print important things.

Both GPT 5.1 and GPT 5.2 have had some very impressive specific features, but also weirdly bad at other tasks. It has kind of felt like OpenAI has been rushing these models too fast IMO. Anthropic's 4.5 models continue to be my favorite to use for actual tasks. From time to time having GPT 5.2 […]

*It worked great for the data set it was given

Synology DSM 7.3 broke a TON of stuff on my Synology. This is the first time I've ever regretted updating.

Guess I’ll return it… https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/end-to-end-encrypted-smart-toilet-camera-is-not-actually-end-to-end-encrypted/

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing […]

Opus 4.5 is really good

What an incredibly weird interview. I’ve always gotten a really weird vibe from Roblox, and it seems to be becoming an increasingly problematic platform. With this dude running things I doubt it will change in any positive way […]

This feels like the companies that blame users for having bad passwords in a breach. Maybe technically true in a way, but come on... Under staffed under resourced schools aren't responsible for a vendor's failing. The vendor is. #powerschool […]