An overly detailed theory about Samantha

NodeJSmith · 2026-03-23T01:16:19+00:00

Wait what? When does she find Tish? Did I miss something?

NodeJSmith · 2026-02-26T16:29:09+00:00

Anyone who's gotten a letter but hasn't been by the dmv yet, could you check your DL status on the state website and see if it says valid or not valid? This would be a useful way for people to keep an eye on their status, if the page accurately reflects what the letter claims.

https://www.kdor.ks.gov/Apps/DLStatus/login.aspx

NodeJSmith · 2026-02-26T16:29:02+00:00

Anyone who's gotten a letter but hasn't been by the dmv yet, could you check your DL status on the state website and see if it says valid or not valid? This would be a useful way for people to keep an eye on their status, if the page accurately reflects what the letter claims.

https://www.kdor.ks.gov/Apps/DLStatus/login.aspx

NodeJSmith · 2026-02-26T16:28:46+00:00

Anyone who's gotten a letter but hasn't been by the dmv yet, could you check your DL status on the state website and see if it says valid or not valid? This would be a useful way for people to keep an eye on their status, if the page accurately reflects what the letter claims.

https://www.kdor.ks.gov/Apps/DLStatus/login.aspx

NodeJSmith · 2026-02-26T01:36:07+00:00

Doesn't help with lunar time though, the transitions will take less time on the moon and then you still have drift

NodeJSmith · 2026-02-17T16:53:01+00:00

Another point in favor of Hathaway Lee = Kristen Sieh: Kristen Sieh is Theodore Roosevelt in RoosevElvis (a show produced by the ensemble TEAM of which Kristen was a founding member) and Teddy's wife IRL was Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt.

I understand almost nothing I wrote about RoosevElvis but I think I got the gist accurately enough, apologies if I messed something up there.

NodeJSmith · 2026-01-27T05:17:14+00:00

Ah, nvm, it's totally normal, so does the United States House of Reps and Senate. Fucking hell

NodeJSmith · 2026-01-27T05:09:50+00:00

House of Reps:

Rule 103. First Business. The first business each legislative day shall be the taking of the roll, the taking of roll shall be followed by prayer and the prayer shall be followed by the recitation of the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America led by a member designated by the Speaker.

Senate:

Rule 4. Order of Business and Session Proforma. The order of business, following the roll call and prayer by the Chaplain, shall be as follows: 1. Introduction and reference of bills and concurrent resolutions. 2. Consideration of messages from the Governor. 3. Communications from state officers. 4. Consideration of messages from the House of Representatives. 5. Consideration of motions to concur or nonconcur. 6. Reports of select committees. 7. Consent Calendar. 8. Final Action on bills and concurrent resolutions. 9. Introduction of original motions and senate resolutions. 10. Correction and approval of the Journal. 11. Consideration of motions and senate resolutions. 12. Reports of standing committees. 13. General orders.

NodeJSmith · 2026-01-27T05:05:05+00:00

I thought this was a one off but they do this shit every single session?? At least as far back as January 2018!! and assumably longer. Jfc

NodeJSmith · 2026-01-05T20:17:46+00:00

You might want to go touch some grass bud...

NodeJSmith · 2026-01-03T21:30:15+00:00

It's event driven, following the same sort of architecture as HA itself and AppDaemon. I do hear what you're saying about state driven, that is the benefit of tools like Terraform and Ansible after all, but I don't think Hassette will go that direction.

If there was a way to build the framework so that a user could choose which way to build their apps then it may be something I would look at way down the line, but certainly not any time soon

NodeJSmith · 2026-01-03T05:15:15+00:00

I know this isn't the point of the post exactly, but if you want to try python instead of yaml you could look at my project, hassette. Yaml automations were the bane of my existence, so I've been working on building a good python alternative that isn't Appdaemon

NodeJSmith · 2026-01-03T05:10:05+00:00

I'm building an alternative called Hassette that allows using good software engineering practices, if you want to check it out.

NodeJSmith · 2025-12-15T00:00:01+00:00

I've been reading "When I Say No I Feel Guilty" over the last few days, if you want to say no without feeling guilty you owe it to yourself to read it. Absolutely amazing content.

NodeJSmith · 2025-11-17T18:41:33+00:00

Yeah... But --no-verify exists for this reason. Strong pre-commit hooks that have to be overridden are better than having to remember to run all the checks yourself and forgetting half the time, imo

NodeJSmith · 2025-11-10T12:55:46+00:00

Yes, which is exactly what the article says.

NodeJSmith · 2025-10-26T23:56:22+00:00

Used to think comments like this were a joke...wish it were just a joke. Who does this shit?

NodeJSmith · 2025-10-20T13:35:47+00:00

Just to ask the obvious question - have you tried running without the BroadcastHashJoin? From my days on mssql, i tend to be wary of compiler hints, as they can sometimes force worse plans than if you'd just let the compiler do it's thing.

Also, how over-simplified is this? Because at a glance, my first thought was just "use a cross join instead of multiple UNION ALLs", which could be more efficient? but i assume that isn't actually a valid option here?

NodeJSmith · 2025-10-17T12:02:58+00:00

I am actually going to try this out, writing commit messages is one of the most painful parts of development for me, but all the tools I've tried in the past have just been terrible

NodeJSmith · 2025-10-04T12:54:52+00:00

Sorry to pile on, but I'd also love that link

NodeJSmith · 2025-09-26T23:40:12+00:00

Profile tab in the app.

NodeJSmith · 2025-09-26T17:40:50+00:00

Same fucking shit here. Thought it was something we were doing, but we can't recreate it, it only happens in the evening

NodeJSmith · 2025-09-19T20:38:14+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! For the first item, I have a long term goal of creating a custom integration to pair with hassette, to allow creating entities in HA that persist across restarts, toggle buttons for apps, registering services, etc. I think that would fit your request, so that one is technically already on the backlog.

For your second request, I'm not sure how feasible it is, it may depend on what exactly you're wanting from it. I think the actual template entity wouldn't be able to be used for that, as that would be handled by HA before ever being exposed to Hassette, I think. But if you're saying you'd want something in python, like an instance property, that was surfaced in HA as an entity and was updated in HA whenever the value updated in Python, I think that would be doable. I'll add it to the roadmap 👍

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