We've spent the past few months integrating Herb into the GitHub.com monolith. It caught numerous bugs, but a key performance blocker remains. In this talk, I'll share how you can see similar benefits in your codebase today and help improve the project ahead of its 1.0 release:

A reader asked how I integrate our Unifi baby monitor cameras into Apple Home. Here is how to combine two cameras into a split-screen view with a combined audio feed for our Apple TVs, iPhones, and Apple Watches using Scrypted and go2rtc: https://hawksley.org/202...

I use Birdnet-Go to identify bird calls using the audio from my Ubiquiti cameras, displaying the most interesting bird detected in the past day on my Timeframe displays: https://hawksley.org/202...

Our home was recently featured on Smart Home Solver: https://hawksley.org/202...

Over the past decade, I've worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe: https://hawksley.org/202...

“TL;DR:** Use the Home Assistant MacOS app to control smart lights based on video call status.” https://hawksley.org/202...

TL;DR: Use a power monitoring outlet to trigger Snoo notifications independent from the cloud. https://hawksley.org/202...

TL;DR: Use a leak sensor without an alarm to detect when water in a dog bowl drops below a certain level. https://hawksley.org/202...

TL;DR: Keep an internally public, daily journal of snippets describing the impact of your work, written with the intention of adding them to your performance review. https://hawksley.org/202...

You’re at senior, but you’re hungry for more. What’s next? In this talk, we’ll attempt to define the staff role and help you decide if it's a good fit for your career. https://hawksley.org/202...