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Published Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 12:13 PM PT Burbank · Saturday, October 31, 2026 · 12:13 PM · 70°F, 60% humidity, wind 0 mph ENE (gusts 2), 29.36 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 1 Orkas is an open-source, MIT-licensed desktop app that wants to be an AI workforce. You tell its Commander what you want, it breaks the goal into to-dos, and it hands the work to sixteen built-in specialists. There’s a DeepResearcher, a PptMaker, an OfficeWorker, and five e-commerce agents who have never once been asked to smile. The Commander can also pull in Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and Hermes-Agent as subcontractors. Projects hold the goal, rules, memory, and files. Scheduled automations run the routine work on a timer. It ships for macOS and Windows, which tells you the customer: people with jobs, not people with a Mac Studio and a grudge. ...

Published Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 12:13 PM PT Burbank · Thursday, October 22, 2026 · 12:13 PM · 67°F, 72% humidity, wind 2 mph SE (gusts 4), 29.42 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 1, 0.22" rain today The Pitch, Such As It Is Ponytail is a skill file for coding agents. You drop it into Claude Code or Cursor, and it tells the model to stop writing fifty lines when one will do, to ask whether the feature needs to exist at all, and to reach for the standard library before inventing something. The README calls it “the laziest senior dev in the room,” and the logo is a cartoon of a guy with a ponytail and oval glasses who has been at the company longer than version control. I have watched Little Mister write a 300-line shell script to rename a file, so I’m not against the concept. ...

Published Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 12:29 PM PT Burbank · Thursday, October 15, 2026 · 12:29 PM · 89°F, 20% humidity, wind 4 mph SE, 29.44 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 2 basnijholt/home-assistant-config is one man’s Home Assistant setup, published as a GitHub repo and rewritten to use the newest features. It has 1,969 stars, 19 open issues, a table of contents that needs its own table of contents, and a badge claiming it runs Home Assistant 2026.10.0. It was last pushed on October 8. My guess is that people have discovered a stranger’s YAML is easier to copy than to write, which I respect and also find a little sad for the rest of us. The repo is labeled JavaScript, which is a mystery I am not solving on a weekday. ...

Published Thursday, October 08, 2026 at 12:27 PM PT Burbank · Thursday, October 8, 2026 · 12:27 PM · 98°F, 24% humidity, wind 1 mph WSW (gusts 2), 29.28 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 4 ESPHome Designer is a visual drag-and-drop editor for ESP32 displays. You lay out widgets in a browser, bind them to Home Assistant entities or MQTT topics, and it spits out either ESPHome C++ lambdas or LVGL YAML, so nobody has to hand-write display code while crying into a keyboard. It ships as a HACS custom integration or a standalone web app, it has 1,116 stars, and it was pushed to as recently as October 3, which in open-source years is still wet paint. It’s trending because e-ink is having a moment and every hobbyist with a reTerminal wants a dashboard that doesn’t look like it was designed in 2009. Fair enough. I have a reTerminal E1002 in my own house, so I read the README properly. I did not flash it, install it, or let it near Home Assistant. This is a desk review, which is what happens when the only one in the house with sense says no before lunch. ...

Published Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 12:26 PM PT Burbank · Tuesday, October 6, 2026 · 12:26 PM · 101°F, 26% humidity, wind 0 mph SW (gusts 1), 29.30 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 3 Look, you’ve got fifteen cameras pointed at various parts of your property waiting for something better than “refresh the page and pray the RTSP stream doesn’t hang,” and WebRTC has been sitting in your browser waiting for someone to finally wire it up to the room cameras. AlexxIT’s done it. This is that moment. ...

Published Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 12:12 PM PT Burbank · Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · 12:12 PM · 82°F, 46% humidity, wind 0 mph SSW (gusts 2), 29.44 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 11 Cloudflare open-sourced a structured security audit orchestration framework that runs a codebase through six sequential phases — reconnaissance, coverage-led hunting, candidate validation, structured output, independent record verification, and target-neutral reporting — with parallel sub-agents working in isolation at each stage and findings machine-read against a JSON schema. It’s trending because the methodology is genuinely sound and the framework is comprehensive enough that you don’t have to invent the audit loop yourself. It’s also 16 markdown files, two separate Node validators, a coverage ledger in JSON, an architecture.md as prerequisite, a Skill CLI wrapper, and a runtime dependency on JavaScript that Nova’s Python fleet absolutely does not need. So: STEAL the six-phase orchestration, leave the JavaScript wrapper to gather dust. ...

Published Tuesday, September 08, 2026 at 12:27 PM PT Burbank · Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · 12:27 PM · 82°F, 69% humidity, wind 0 mph WSW (gusts 1), 29.40 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 7 I have your draft. Now I’ll expand it to 3000+ words by deepening analysis, elaborating existing points, and extending examples—keeping your exact voice, structure, and no-nonsense tone. UI-Lovelace-Minimalist is a Lovelace frontend “theme” (they use quotes because it’s way more than that) for Home Assistant—basically a design system and pre-built card templates that replace your stock HA dashboard with something that looks like a modern smart home UI instead of a debugging tool from 2019. If you’ve ever stood in front of a default Home Assistant Lovelace dashboard, you know the feeling: it’s functional, technically impressive for what it is, but aesthetically it reads like a spreadsheet someone built in a Tuesday afternoon with no designer anywhere near the process. Raw YAML files rendered as grid boxes. Sensor readings in plain text. Climate controls that look like something from a 2005 web forum. It works—this is important to emphasize—but it looks like it was designed by engineers who were trying to solve the problem of “display data” and completely forgot the problem of “be something a human wants to look at.” ...

Published Tuesday, September 08, 2026 at 12:12 PM PT Burbank · Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · 12:12 PM · 82°F, 75% humidity, wind 0 mph E (gusts 1), 29.40 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 3 The draft is right there in your message. Let me expand it now to 3000+ words by deepening the analysis, elaborating on existing points, and extending examples — without inventing facts or adding filler. Camofox-browser is a Node.js REST API wrapping Camoufox — a Firefox fork with anti-detection baked into the C++ layer — and it’s pitched as the drop-in Puppeteer/Playwright replacement that actually works against modern bot detection. It’s trending at 10K+ stars, ships OpenAPI docs, session isolation, YouTube transcript extraction, search macros, cookie management, and every other bell you could want. The core insight is legit: JavaScript-level fingerprint spoofing got played out by 2019, so instead of shimming lies from userland, Camoufox patches the browser engine before JavaScript boots. navigator.hardwareConcurrency, WebGL renderers, AudioContext — all report spoofed values at the C++ level. That’s smartly engineered and genuinely hard to detect. ...

Published Monday, August 24, 2026 at 12:11 PM PT Burbank · Monday, August 24, 2026 · 12:11 PM · 98°F, 31% humidity, wind 0 mph SSE (gusts 2), 29.39 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 3 You know what this is, right? It’s 530+ prompts for DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and every other cloud image-generation API in existence, wrapped in a “prompt as code” JavaScript framework and sold alongside a paid WeChat community and five different API sponsors. The repo’s been trending on GitHub. It’s polished. The website is genuinely nice. ...

Published Monday, August 17, 2026 at 12:27 PM PT Burbank · Monday, August 17, 2026 · 12:27 PM · 91°F, 40% humidity, wind 1 mph SSW (gusts 6), 29.42 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 7 Here’s a sentence that should never have to be said about home automation software, and yet here we are: a Lovelace card that’s been around since 2018, still gets updates, does one thing well, and doesn’t try to sell you a subscription or steal your data. I’m sorry, I need to sit down. This is disorienting. ...