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Google Developer Expert for Android, failed blogger, public speaker, maker (and breaker) of shiny things. Kotlin aficionado, Multiplatform manipulator, prolific facilitator of cute cat photographs, spends more time travelling than working (he/him).

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CLI Command Reference Β |Β  OpenThread

You're welcome! The UI is still lacking in functionality, but if you can SSH to the host you can use invoke the CLI via Docker
openthread.io/reference/cl...

04.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a row in Home Assistant configuration settings for the OpenThread Border Router add-on that allows beta mode with Thread 1.4 and native OpenThread mDns

Screenshot of a row in Home Assistant configuration settings for the OpenThread Border Router add-on that allows beta mode with Thread 1.4 and native OpenThread mDns

There's a toggle option on the configuration tab for the "OpenThread Border Router" add-on in Home Assistant, if you don't have advanced mode enabled you can search for this directly

04.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Which part?

04.03.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Next up my Nest Hubs, which are notoriously difficult to work with, clearly the only solution is to buy an over engineered Ubiquity WiFi network right?

04.03.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This week I've been struggling to get my Ikea DIRIGERA to join my HomeAssistant Thread network, finally just managed it after upgrading to Thread specification 1.4 on HA, heads up for anybody else trying

04.03.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man standing in front of a building with his eyes closed and his mouth open ALT: a man standing in front of a building with his eyes closed and his mouth open

Can't leak secrets if you don't read the code

03.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"It depends"

01.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For anyone seeing the events that occurred at Block and think "man, I feel for them"... If you work in tech, it's gonna suck for you too. These are the people who maintained open source we all use, such as Okhttp, Retrofit, Okio, Turbine, Molecule, Paparazzi, Moshi, KotlinPoet, Java Poet, etc...

27.02.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Increasingly? It's always been about that, it's the whole deal.

27.02.2026 10:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Takes likes this are interesting, whilst entirely true, it overlooks what conservatism is, people vote for conservatism because they want to conserve things the way they are, they are wrong for doing so ofc, but the party is but a symptom of the misguided voting public.

27.02.2026 10:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps the issue is that basic principles of security are not commonly known to AI bros and vibe coders.

26.02.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I agree there should be more guardrails encouraging API limited keys for specific usages, but this is just good practice, an API key identifies a consumer of a service. If you expose a "functionally useless" API key for Firestore then add LLM access, you're asking for trouble.

26.02.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure I see it as such an exploit, the mistake was Google advertising API keys are not secret, if you have an API key for a service, and add another service to that key, you'll have a vulnerability, so you know... Don't do that?

26.02.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Amperage

Loving todays XKCD, but I definitely feel seen
xkcd.com/3211/

25.02.2026 10:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Activism is a by-product of passion, that's why it's so hard to fake, there's nothing more inspiring than hearing from a person who actually loves what they're doing, though sadly it's running in short supply

22.02.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Deception is a talent

17.02.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Braverman, whom Farage has put in charge of education, skills and equalities"

Ironic, given she has none of those qualities.

17.02.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Disgraceful! It's spelt "Behaviour".

17.02.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

TLDR: Please be one of my 20 testers for my antifascist app. :)

Hey all,

I'm coming back to this after a tough year, given it's an app that can hopefully do some good.

I am going to distribute this via Google Play, but need 20 testers to do so.

Any volunteers? :)

17.02.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man"

14.02.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Boom!

14.02.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 1740 πŸ” 599 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 45
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Should the Berlinale film festival 'stay out of politics'? Asked if the Berlin International Film Festival should take a stand on Gaza, jury president Wim Wenders said it must "stay out of politics." Not everyone agrees.

There's no such thing as being apolitical, only complacent or ignorant. The arts are a mechanism for self expression and emotion, suppressing the topic of politics is akin to suppressing free speech. www.dw.com/en/should-th...

14.02.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Before AI, there was a ceiling on how much you could produce in a day. That ceiling was set by typing speed, thinking speed, the time it takes to look things up. It was frustrating sometimes, but it was also a governor. You couldn't work yourself to death because the work itself imposed limits.

AI removed the governor. Now the only limit is your cognitive endurance. And most people don't know their cognitive limits until they've blown past them.

Before AI, there was a ceiling on how much you could produce in a day. That ceiling was set by typing speed, thinking speed, the time it takes to look things up. It was frustrating sometimes, but it was also a governor. You couldn't work yourself to death because the work itself imposed limits. AI removed the governor. Now the only limit is your cognitive endurance. And most people don't know their cognitive limits until they've blown past them.

This is the best article I’ve read about AI and the potential (or perhaps more accurately, likely) detrimental effects on engineers and some strategies on how to help manage it. It is *so* spot on.

siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f...

13.02.2026 13:26 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Sign Petition: End the Terror and Violence. Abolish ICE. This is not law enforcement. It is terror. (36473 signatures on petition)

That’s why I’m urging you, with all the gravity this moment demands, to add your name to a petition telling Congress: abolish ICE.

When enough of us raise our voices together, we remind our leaders β€” and ourselves β€” that compassion is our strength, not cruelty.

13.02.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 946 πŸ” 222 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 8
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Daily dose of cat

13.02.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ordered food, delivery driver gives me this as a "gift" from the restaurant...

Sprachlos.

13.02.2026 20:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hasn't this always been possible with JVM based software?

12.02.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Never, ever, ever, use LoC as a performance metric, "10x engineers" will churn out 10x as much slop with AI tools than it will ever be possible to refactor or clean up.

12.02.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder how often doctors get people coming in with symptoms they got from ChatGPT, a lot I would imagine

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