December 05, 2018

275: Now, That's One Smart Home!

58 minutes

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:

Spectrum is joining Github!

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:

We are @designdetailsfm

Brian is @brian_lovin

Marshall is @marshallbock

@Sarahberus and @Luperdev make us sound smarter than we are

Join the conversation on Spectrum or leave us a review on iTunes

BYEEEEEEE!

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