Adrian Lansdown

@Adrianlan
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📈 Software Engineering Manager at Raspberry Pi Foundation
#Dyslexic 
🏘 #HomeAssistant #ESPHome #nodered #EngineeringMangement #Coaching
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Websitehttps://www.adrianlansdown.com
Gardening Zone8a
GithubGitHub.com/yayadrian
Pronounshe/him/his
Shopping Slappy - “I see you added a drone to your amazing basket.
You are correct, that is a good deal But you do not have enough in your drone fund.
It also appears on average, over the last three months, your current drone flew for 0.10 hours.
Go eat an orange."
What we truly need is another evolution of AI agents that are kinda annoying and get in the way.
Too easy for bots and people to say YES
I'd appreciate if people automating posting random state info about their house to Mastodon [tangentially: why? who benefits?] either wouldn't do it with the #homeassistant hashtag, or at least would include another common, easily mutable hashtag so I don't have to keep muting accounts while following the HA hashtag because I'm interested in, well, people talking about Home Assistant. 🙃
What's My JND?

Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

I just spent the last 24 hours building... a free tool to create your very own handwriting font quickly within the browser (no logins, all local processing):

https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html

Having tested it extensively on my own manuscript, I can definitely say that it works. ;) Download the OTF and/or TTF when done!

#fonts #typography #web #app #ai #vibecoding #free

Foursquare/Swarm, but
It lets you check in to places hours after you have been there.
Internet Phone Book ❋ Issue 2

Hi :) Nice to meet you. We need a tiny bit of information to include your website in the Internet Phone Book ❋ Issue 2

Phone Book

🪧 HA-Betterstack-Uptime is now released
For no real reason apart from my own wanting,
I created this new custom integration for Home Assistant to bring Better Stack Uptime monitor status into Home Assistant.

https://github.com/yayadrian/HA-Betterstack-Uptime
#HomeAssistant #BetterStack

GitHub - yayadrian/HA-Betterstack-Uptime: A Home Assistant integration to provide uptime status from BetterStack

A Home Assistant integration to provide uptime status from BetterStack - yayadrian/HA-Betterstack-Uptime

GitHub
Quickly enabled CORS on all my sites feeds.
https://www.blogsareback.com/guides/enable-cors
Should probably move away from Netlify at some point.
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Last week, it was sunny.
Last week, I promised the kids we could go to the park after school.

This week, it's grey and cold.
Past Adrian did not make a wise choice.