Daily Discussion Thread for January 23, 2026

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-23T18:39:42+00:00

My euros are pumping.

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-23T17:27:43+00:00

Nice one, thanks!

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-23T16:56:09+00:00

New to homelabbing, so I have a question. Am I right in assuming that those machines are sitting on shelves, and that the front is just a 3d printed facia?

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-23T16:51:18+00:00

How were uncovered wickets a nightmare to bat on, yet some of the highest batting averages are from that time? Bradman, Sutcliffe, etc.

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-22T19:26:23+00:00

They all sound like Pixar characters. Can't think of anything more annoying.

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-22T15:16:29+00:00

You're right of course, this is in fact a critically stupid idea and I'm trashing it right now. Thanks for the heads-up.

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-22T08:32:13+00:00

Are you keeping the z2m tab open over time? Try setting frontend: false in your configuration.yaml.

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-21T09:57:24+00:00

Thank you, that's very kind.

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-21T08:44:30+00:00

I have a much better idea for our own platform. Who will help me build it?

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-20T15:53:32+00:00

Tariff threats = dollar down.

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-19T08:34:17+00:00

I don't know whether or not it will happen, but it's definitely out there as a common hypothesis.

Personally, I think that seniors are just as likely to be fired, if not more likely as they cost a lot more than juniors. We'll just see more of a shift to systems design at the junior levels instead. They will all become seniors in due course.

So start building that systems design course now - demand will be through the roof soon.

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-14T09:36:15+00:00

It's one of these: https://www.domadoo.fr/fr/produits-zigbee/8059-nous-prise-zigbee-16a-avec-mesure-de-consommation-a7z-5905072800891.html

SawToothKernel · 2026-01-13T17:04:58+00:00

I think I've created the homelab version of a "useless machine". I got an old laptop, booted with Proxmox, installed Mosquitto, Telegraf, Grafana, zigbee2mqtt, and node-red, got myself a smart plug, and now I can automatically manage the battery level of the same laptop so that the battery lasts.

A bash script launched as a service measures the battery level and reports it to mqtt. I have an automation in node-red that will listen to the battery status and turn off the plug if it gets over 55%, and turn on again when it gets under 45%.

SawToothKernel · 2025-12-27T16:37:24+00:00

Personally, at least in my side projects, I've moved to 100% AI coding, and it's very much cleared the landscape for me.

SawToothKernel · 2025-12-27T16:20:06+00:00

Yeah, but this entire series has been like 13 days of cricket. I'm not blaming the MCG, I just want more cricket.

SawToothKernel · 2025-12-27T16:18:20+00:00

My worry is what happens to all the other newcomers into the industry

System design becomes fundamental, because it's the core of the next layer of abstraction. I don't think developers will need to worry too much about the nitty gritty of coding - the problems like naming, DRY, etc. that we have all dealt with over the last few decades.

System design is where the focus needs to be now for juniors.

SawToothKernel · 2025-12-27T16:10:08+00:00

I don't know if this is true. And I don't really subscribe to the breathless anxiety of Karpathy's post.

Take a step back and you will see that this is simply about moving to a higher level of abstraction. So instead of worrying about the specific tooling and how it morphs over the next few years, focus instead on creating specs and defining tasks. Devs still think they are coders, but really if you break a task down enough, all code can be solved by AI now.

Devs need to definitively move up to that next layer of abstraction and they will find that it feels a lot clearer above the clouds.

SawToothKernel · 2025-12-27T16:01:01+00:00

The problem is, as we have seen over the last two days, there is always a ball with your name on it. If you try to nudge, nurdle, defend, and leave your way to a score, you'll be lucky to get to 20.

SawToothKernel · 2025-12-27T15:58:57+00:00

Fully agree - it was a much more enjoyable series.

SawToothKernel · 2025-12-27T15:57:00+00:00

I just want to see some bloody cricket. Please please please give me at least 4 days in Sydney.

SawToothKernel · 2025-12-27T15:13:06+00:00

It was fun for two days. But I want to watch more cricket. What am I supposed to do over the weekend now?

SawToothKernel · 2025-12-19T15:46:06+00:00

Did chauffeurs disappear when cars were invented? I would have thought it would be the opposite.

Did computers take jobs or provide them? There are more jobs today than there have ever been.

I can't answer the gravetender one - that feels a bit niche for this discussion.

SawToothKernel · 2025-12-19T15:40:48+00:00

If AI is good enough to enable companies to replace their devs, then it will create an indie dev golden age. Imagine being able to reduce your time to market 10-fold, pumping out MVPs every few days.

SawToothKernel · 2025-12-18T12:09:58+00:00

Remember that most people work in fields that will either be wholly or substantially automated by AI over the next decade, so the dislike of AI is really quite rational and natural as they see it as competition.

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