Matter promised to fix smart homes, but created a worse mess instead
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I connected my dumb appliances to Home Assistant, and it felt like upgrading my whole house
1d agoHome Assistant can now see when you use the physical remote, and it changes everything
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…So, Claude replaces Reclaim (and every AI-assisted calendar scheduling app) for me. Claude has turned into my top AI tool in a very short time, and while it's helped me…
Zigbee solved the smart-home battery problem years ago, and Matter still hasn't
…replaced every few months, it's time to optimize your sensor lifecycles with Home Assistant. The first thing to do is keep your sensors on dedicated Zigbee 3.0 channels. Stop replacing…
I replaced the expensive Claude Pro subscription with these local models, and my productivity didn’t drop a bit
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I used my local LLM to rebuild my workflow from scratch, and it was better than I expected
…My setup already includes things like Paperless-ngx, Home Assistant, and other tools that prioritize privacy and control. But when it came to large language models, I was still hesitant. LLMs have…
Forget Cursor and Claude Code, Google Antigravity is the perfect example of vibe coding
…It is clearly more than an AI-assisted typing and unlocks the true power of vibe coding. Related I used Claude Code, Google Antigravity and OpenAI Codex to develop an app, and…
I stopped jumping between monitoring dashboards with one Claude Code command
…One /loop command replaced everything Detection, reasoning, and output in one flow Previously, I tried many different setups to monitor my homelab. One time, I even tried adding a cloud LLM to…
I stopped paying for three productivity apps after Claude started doing their jobs better
…Related I replaced Claude Pro with a local 9B model for a week, and finally found out what I was paying $20 a month for The gap was smaller than I expected…
I connected Claude Code to my home server through MCP, and now I manage my entire lab by talking to it
…The setup wasn’t a replacement of Uptime Kuma or Speedtest Tracker; it made them more efficient by surfacing quiet errors. What it still can't do Not a Portainer replacement If…
I keep finding vibe coded apps that leak user data, and I'm not even looking for it
…It was a decent-looking site, reasonably polished, clearly put together with generous help from an AI assistant. I was curious how posts were being served up, so I looked in the…