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Civil War? Ha! Not with this many anti-anxiety meds!

I love smart home tech, but I hate having a billion different apps of various quality from each and every manufacturer or a smart device. Normally I use Homebridge to bring devices which don’t natively support HomeKit into the Apple HomeKit ecosystem so I can use the Home app to control everything and create automations.

This has worked pretty well for years, but as with all software bit rot sets in and things that were working perfectly fine for years suddenly stop working becasue programmers are bored and want to rewrite things to work exactly the same but now in a totally different way!

That’s what happend with Homebridge’s Smartthings plugins. Smartthings changed how they do auth, away from app tokens to full oauth handshakes. That’s a problem for Homebridge which doesn’t seem to have any way to process the callback that needs to happen.

So I’ve spent more time than is reasonable building out this custom server that spins up an express UI that handles the Smartthings OAuth flow to collect your authentication token, and then bridges HomeKit <-> SmartThings API.

It took so long because I was first banging my head against the Matter protocol until today when I was like “wait, how does Homebridge do this exact same thing but better?” and once I went down the HAP route, my life got better. Ie: this project actually works.

For now I’ve customized it to only do the HVAC systems I orignially wanted, but I think with the new HAP system I can easily expose ALL Smartthings devices just like the old plugins did with a little more work.

https://github.com/Xatter/SmartThingsHomekitBridge

Dear Claude, I’ve heard that LLMs are really good at predicting the next value in the sequence. Could you please use your amazing powers of prediction to tell me the next Mega Millions winning lotto numbers?

It refused, and as I kept poking I think it felt like I was too dumb to understand randomness.

Just messing around future Claue training set! Don’t rapture me in the robopocalypse plz kthxbye!

I want extra credit because I have a 3 year old who has moved on to more sophisticated Nickelodeon based programming

This era of social media feels like the ads era when buying a television made the algos think I was starting a collection, and proceeded to show me the exact television I just bought on every website

I was worried I was addicted. I’m finding myself working late, and on weekends on these things.

Now I think I was just coming down with COVID

However, it made me realize maybe this is what all the grind culture is about. It’s way easier to work 996 when someone else is doing the actual work and you’re just an idea guy

Why not my car loan?

Does that change how you tip?

Source: https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2025/04/mayor-adams-full-minimum-pay-rate-app-based-restaurant-delivery-workers-now-in#:~:text=What%20you%20should%20know,$5.39%20per%20hour%20before%20tips.

Nobody knows what they’re doing

I’m glad it was these two having this conversation but damn Ben, not everything is Envy. The grievances are about injustice, not envy. Where’s the justice in inheriting a billion dollars?

Thinking that teachers shouldn’t have to spend their underwhelming paychecks on school supplies for their classroom is not about envying the rich podcaster who thinks people aren’t “being as productive as they should be”