I use MXRoute which is inexpensive and run by someone who has the strong opinions of a wise grey beard. Also Black Friday/holiday sales can make the cost even more reasonable. Doesn’t have the suite of accessory products like some other options but it’s excellent for what it is.

Are you harvesting the sprouted greens or is this a progress pic on the way to actual radishes?

Trinidad sour is a must try cocktail. Use a strong orgeat; I like Liber & Co. but I’m sure you can find others similar.

Thanks for sharing these and linking the MCP you’re using. I like the “subscribe” for notifications idea with a multi-person household and the total cycle logging. I’ve heard from others too that dashboards are a good use case but I haven’t tried yet myself.

My biggest Claude automation success was also washer/dryer. I have a stacked washer+dryer with power monitoring on the washer and a vibration sensor on the dryer (240V in US, annoying to get power monitoring without CT clamps in the breaker box). Washer vibrates the dryer sensor, etc. But finally got a logic flow where I can reliably get washer or dryer notifications using an automation to change a state machine and trigger notifications. Would have gotten frustrated sooner without Claude I reckon.

I mostly use this claude-homeassistant project. It uses a simple workflow (make pull, Claude code plan/make your changes, make push) and has some handy features like validation and backups.

However, I will say that most of the automations that Claude makes kinda suck. Hard to explain but I have to iterate a bunch of times to get what I’m actually after. Not the end of the world but it uses a lot of tokens to ultimately make a handful of small changes. I love technology and even enjoy using some LLM products but I’m frequently disappointed with the results haha.

I’d say good use cases would be entity management and debugging automation traces. Besides that, I’ve found the uses limited.

Would be interested to hear if you find other impactful uses.

Finished the article. Enjoyed.

I enjoyed this quote

Structural engineer Bob Greer said "I don’t know of any building code in the world that would allow a 160-pound (73 kg) man to run up against a glass and withstand it.”

Population decline :) … :( …… :) …………. :(

I was surprised how heart wrenching Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was. Growing up I heard it was about meatpacking plants in Chicago. Technically correct, but very much a tale of things not going well. Enjoyed the journey despite the sadness!

Yet another reason to give ProPublica money every month

I guess this is a “good” political outcome for democrats. They can clearly point to the republicans’ failure. But what a sad state of affairs when a good political outcome means millions facing immediate healthcare cost increases. End of Jan shutdown incoming, and even more pain in 2026.

Anyone got a less morose take??

Don’t worry, it’s shadows from overhead power lines ;)

Since the coffee grounds are at ambient temperature, there is no way to prevent a temp drop when you first pour over.

Don’t worry though, it happens with every single brew method. The methods specify the water temp that you pour/brew with, not the outlet water temp.

Sounds like you’re doing enough to preheat your brewing eqpt, but keep in mind if you wet the filter then let it sit for even a minute, it will be cold. Make sure your v60 is nice and hot, that will retain temp much better than your filter.

Overall it sounds like you’re keeping an eye on some of the right things, just don’t worry so much about outlet temp so long as you’re preheating as much as possible. Cheers!