This Week with Taylor & Gordon

Origins of our podcast Home Assistant – https://www.home-assistant.io/ Using recent experience to make the experience better Creating a universal notification hub Using ChatGPT to create automations Creating a list of entities for use with AI AI can then use the correct entities in scripts and automations Creating another list so AI can suggest automations Creating ... Read more

Project design signed off after lots of work Revisiting – organising and hosting our local community day QR code would show them a live schedule, which could be changed on the day Software that powers it has changed since last year and isn’t as user-friendly as it could be Previously used https://Frontly.ai Revisit software you ... Read more

Perspective Training plan at the gym – restarting Giving yourself a forfeit if you fail Give yourself a motivation “I only have an hour and a half”, or “I have an hour and a half” Looking at the situation with a different perspective Forfeit instead of reward The monetary amount of the forfeit is all ... Read more

Another week has passed Stingers – after credits on a film Wednesday night cinema trip Automating the timings for leaving, travel, time to eat and then time to enter the screen to miss the adverts Bonus extra content during and after credits – https://aftercredits.com No API available but it does run on WordPress That means ... Read more

Essentialism – The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Stop saying yes to please people Setting core values to allow you to make decisions Do you have the bandwidth to do things? Declutter projects Delete projects, no archiving Saying yes to help people Doing things you want, and enjoy doing Family and Friends are possible exceptions If ... Read more

Back from holidays Renovating my Gordon’s Magic box of tricks Jezo Bond took on the project, vinyl graphics printed by Rob Gaffney Went to see Jezo perform at a holiday park in front of a real audience Can be a difficult audience, need to grab their attention When collecting, the box was amazing Brand new ... Read more

Last episode before holiday How Gordon research’s Look at what I use a product for and what I want to use one for in the lifetime of a future upgraded version What is the product capable of, what do competitors versions have, what features are the most important to me. Mid range is normally a ... Read more

Voicepal (phone app) – Ghostwriter in your pocket Helps to rid yourself of writers block Transcribes your verbal thoughts and then asks questions using AI Learns from examples of your writing style How strict or free do you want it to be Creating blog posts to your website is great for the search engines Getting ... Read more

Planting seeds in the minds of your customers Busy week performing as it is the end of the school year Moved from December to Summer over the last few years Sowing the seed for another show next year – pointing out the positives Performing at one child’s birthday, 4 years running Making a suggestion of ... Read more

Visiting Jake Woods in Ireland Main platform is WordPress, but also a little bit of Shopify WordPress is open source and easier to work with Which is better – depends on what you are selling Shopify allows only 3 variants of a product Started in Hospitality, but saw the possibilities of the Internet Self Taught ... Read more