Design Details

275: Now, That's One Smart Home!


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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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