Category: Project Debrief

  • Project Debrief: UV Index on Home Assistant

    Project Goals I use Home Assistant for home automation, with a handy dashboard visible in my living room. On sunny days, I would like to know whether I need sunscreen so a UV index display is ideal. Home Assistant does already have a UV Index integration but is has two issues: Design The first step…

  • Project Debrief: ELO Foosball

    Project Goals The staff at the startup I was in around 2013 conformed to stereotype by playing a lot of Foosball, and quite competitively at that. To revel in this, I decided to write an app that would a) allow us to track games and b) provide a ranking of players! Design For tracking games,…

  • Project Debrief: Filter Feed

    Note: this post is probably of low interest. I am simply making a record of some little personal projects I have made. Project Goals I subscribe to several podcasts and RSS feeds which include some posts I’m not interested in. For example, USGS has a feed of volcano statuses but I only want to subscribe…

  • Project Debrief: Dice Calculator

    Note: this post is probably of low interest. I am simply making a record of some little personal projects I have made. Project Goals My personal motivation for this project was to learn about voice assistants. The actual project goal, however, was to produce a dice calculation voice assistant feature that understood the ins-and-outs of…