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275: Now, That's One Smart Home!

Dec 05, 201858 minEp. 276
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Episode description

This week, Marshall explains his smart home setup to Brian in great detail. In News, Brian reveals an exciting development with Spectrum. And as always, we share a couple cool things, including an Advent calendar for programming puzzles and a thing everybody already knows about.

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Follow-up:
  • Samsung One UI's floating keyboard is a feature in need of a use case
  • Tonal is a home gym that mounts on your wall
News: Explain Like I'm Five
  • ELI5
  • Marshall wrote up a hefty Google doc that includes links and descriptions for all this smart home stuff, so check it out for details on pretty much everything mentioned in the episode
  • Note: That Homekit bug seems to only affect shades, but it dims lights just fine, fwiw
One Cool Thing:
  • Brian shared Advent of Code, an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles
  • HackerTyper makes it look like ur a 1337 h4XX0r. Just smash the keyboard indiscriminately.
  • Marshall shared Audible, which is a thing you definitely already know about
  • Neuromancer kinda started the whole cyberpunk thing
  • Snow Crash is Marshall's favorite work of fiction
Design Details on the Web:

BYEEEEEEE!

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