Let it run overnight and woke up to this beauty! 🏠✨ 5+ hours of printing later, my new office has some proper @homeassistant decoration. Now to find the perfect spot in my streaming background… 🎬

#HomeAssistant #3DPrinting #SmartHome #OpenSource #MakerLife

Reminds me of a meme I’m still proud of all these years later.

I had a dream last night that Linux was renamed “systemdOS”. My reptilian brain seems to be too in touch with reality. Bring back the man eating snakes made out of rolls of insulation. At least that was tolerable.

Well done to the person in Philadelphia government who sent an emergency text to everybody in area with a link to chubbyparade.com, a porn site, instead of a weather site

I do hope I handled this situation alright.

I will reiterate to this person and everyone else I work with that I’d rather people tell me when they are sick and take time off. We can reassign work or negotiate new deadlines with clients. I don’t want people taking shortcuts and pressure themselves like this.

One of my contractors used an #LLM for a first draft of a client deliverable today.

I don’t allow #AI use for any client-facing work (and try to prohibit it for internal work too, but it’s been… tricky). This person knows it - I’ve worked with them for years, and they are usually very thoughtful and wouldn’t take a shortcut like this. So seeing the obvious AI copy was very confusing.

Thankfully we had a call scheduled this morning, so I decided to handle it there.

The contractor showed up very obviously sick, they told me they took most of past week off but had to force themselves to finish this draft because the deadline is EOD. I asked if they used #AI to draft the document, they immediately confessed and apologized.

Since the deliverable is client-facing, I asked them to explain their ideas to me in conversational language and then used my notes of what they said to help them rewrite the document. We worked through the whole thing in an hour, and I’ve asked them to go rest and recover.

Alright Mastodon, I'm looking for work.

Senior software developer, specializing in low-level, embedded, and systems programming. Previous work includes video compression (developer on AV1 and AV2), silicon verification, and scientific/numerical software. Full CV/resume available on request.

Primarily looking for remote work, but would consider in-person in the UK if the circumstances are right.

Available for either contract work through the company I run (easiest route if you're outside the UK), or direct employment.

Tagging #FediHire for visibility.

2025 mood continuing in 2026.