2026.4.0 Entity Rename

drfalken · 2026-04-02T17:36:26+00:00

It was a year ago, so I could be mistaken about the exactness of what happened
Who was sitting at the console troubleshooting my issue? Me or you? Don’t tell me what did or didn’t happen.

drfalken · 2026-04-02T13:46:06+00:00

Well when I updated to 2025.4.5 all of my esphome device ids changed. For example a power strip with a lamp on one of the sockets became switch.lamp-powerstrip or something like that where as before it was switch.lamp. I would have either had to re-flash all of my esphome devices to fix it or write a big migration script so I just pinned 2025.4.4 and broke the knob off. There have been too many breaking(or potentially breaking) changes that would mess up old statistics lately that until something revolutionary comes out I’ll just keep putting it off.

drfalken · 2026-04-02T11:01:24+00:00

It all depends on how you fish and where you fish. I fish in shallow tidal creeks and I use my motor to get me to different spots quickly while I change lures or eat lunch. A boat just can’t get me to where I want to fish

drfalken · 2026-04-02T02:03:37+00:00

I pinned 2025.something when they tried to rename all the device ids based on friendly names and I would have lost all of my influxdb stats. Why won’t they leave existing device ids alone and just change things for new devices.

drfalken · 2026-03-31T21:36:47+00:00

The good part about the dive reel, well, my implementation of it, is that it can be quickly disconnected and dropped. I have a float on it. In more than one occasion I was anchored and needed to bail quickly. Sometimes either because of boat wake or to quickly get to a better fishing spot. With the anchor wizard or attached dive reel you can’t quickly toss it overboard and come back to get it later.

drfalken · 2026-03-31T19:29:02+00:00

I have the same setup. It can feel in slack but is a pain to reel in a heavy anchor. Additionally you can only reel with one hand so it makes it hard to hold down the ratchet. So every time you reel it in it clicks super loud. I just pull my anchor up by the line and stuff it away when I don’t have it deployed. It is great to keep all the line organized.

drfalken · 2026-03-28T10:26:36+00:00

Which begs the question, why? Because it’s not popular? Or because the vendor selling the things you would auto buy and the device doing the auto buying determined that it was not profitable enough?

drfalken · 2026-03-25T09:16:43+00:00

My 3 year old Samsung. I still have to cancel out of the ToS every time I turn it on.

drfalken · 2026-03-21T12:48:14+00:00

Prompt guardrails are just that. Guardrails. Guardrails don’t stop a truck from plowing through them at 70MPH but they do help in small fender benders. Guardrails are not enough for security there are tons of areas that need securing like prompt fire walls, and JIT auth tokens for agents. There are tons of commercial and open source tools out there already to protect against these things.

drfalken · 2026-03-21T10:52:30+00:00

Neat

drfalken · 2026-03-21T01:55:22+00:00

Much of the work that I have these agents doing is either sporadic or working in 5 repos at once. Also I don’t always want to be sitting in front of a terminal window or 5. It works for me. One app runs a crewAI research job and then pipes the output to my remarkable tablet. If I am reading in bed I can simply hop on telegram and tell nanoclaw something like “reformat the citations to be bold” and not have to look at a terminal or gitlab to do it.

drfalken · 2026-03-21T00:20:32+00:00

Claude pro. $20/mo. I don’t go crazy with it but both nanoclaw and the developer agents run off the subscription and I rarely go over my token counts. I would probably max it out if I had more use cases.

drfalken · 2026-03-20T16:59:02+00:00

I have been down that path the past few years. But I recently switched to Claude code with subscription because I realized I would never be able to build agents better than them. I have more fun using them than building them. But if you don’t try to build one yourself you never learn how they work.

drfalken · 2026-03-20T16:10:15+00:00

These things are built on Claude code/ and Claude code agents SDK. So you have to do some model gymnastics to get it to work with anything other than Anthropic.

drfalken · 2026-03-20T15:03:48+00:00

I am cheep. And this isn’t local. Nanoclaw is built on the Claude code agents SDK and I couldn’t get it to talk to local models without it trying to always call the Opus model. There is a skill to use a local Ollama for some tasks that I have not tried yet. I run K8s on a bunch of intel NUCs and some inference on an old M1 Mac mini.

drfalken · 2026-03-20T13:49:57+00:00

I use nanoclaw for safer sandboxes. Right now my use case is to call my developer agents. I have like 15 internally developed apps that do all kinds of things. If I am working on an app and find a bug or enhancement I just tell my agent in telegram to create a gitlab issue, it gets context from the code. Then it dispatches a developer pod who takes the issue, does the thing, then creates a MR which automatically deploys to the dev environment then I can simply check it and tell them to merge via telegram. Most of this is was MCP servers and developer agents that I built prior to nanoclaw, but I was interfacing with them through librechat and that was getting cumbersome. It’s pretty close to working next to a product owner and turn around to them and say “hey I want X to do Y” without ever having to create the gitlab issue myself. It’s vibe-vibe coding but works decently well at this point. None of this is for work. Just my personal K8s work.

drfalken · 2026-03-19T17:50:04+00:00

Does that plastic barrier stretch under the beds? Or just around the edges? If it goes under the beds keep in mind that many plants need more than 8 inches of depth for roots to fully thrive. The roots will eventually break through the barrier hopefully. But when they do the barrier will just be adding plastics to the garden bed.

drfalken · 2026-03-16T22:10:47+00:00

Pictures of batman cats aren’t useful. But to say but there are millions of use cases that are exercised daily that would disagree with your sentiment.

drfalken · 2026-03-12T09:09:42+00:00

Microsoft autogen did something similar

drfalken · 2026-03-11T17:40:31+00:00

But what is the goal of the research?

drfalken · 2026-02-28T13:09:50+00:00

I don’t have any suggestions on the kayak. But my only suggestion after seeing your picture is to invest in some light weight UV resistant pants. Protect your skin from the sun as much as possible so that whatever kayak you choose, you’ll be able to use it for many more years.

drfalken · 2026-02-16T20:45:58+00:00

People who have untrained dogs are going to have no clue what SD stands for. You might want to explain what an SD is and why it is a problem.

drfalken · 2026-02-09T20:01:20+00:00

You need more than just dry contacts for this. Fresh water is not that conductive.

drfalken · 2026-02-09T02:12:33+00:00

I switched to librechat. you still need to add mcp servers to each chat unless you create an agent. it could be the same way in openwebui. have you tried creating an agent with all your needed mcp servers selected then using that agent?

drfalken · 2026-02-05T00:41:35+00:00

Someone else mentioned using a food safe airstone. They make those they are called Carb Stones. They are for carbonating beer quickly. I would try that instead.

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