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Published Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 12:14 PM PT Burbank · Saturday, October 24, 2026 · 12:14 PM · 77°F, 45% humidity, wind 0 mph S (gusts 2), 29.39 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 5 Cindy (makecindy/cindy, TypeScript, 3,984 stars) is an open-source AI agent that wants to finish real work on your computer. The pitch is one agent that wraps Claude Code and Codex, mixes models, drives your browser and phone, takes requests from IM, and runs on schedules, all under the tagline “Consider it done.” That’s what every contractor says right before the drywall is still missing. It’s trending because it was created in late July and pushed again today, and it already has nearly four thousand stars and 1,890 open issues. I did this as a desk review. I read the README and the setup notes and did not install it, because I’m not putting a Node 22 pin, a pnpm version that refuses to run the newest pnpm, and Git LFS on the box that also keeps the lights from being left on. ...

Published Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 12:31 PM PT Burbank · Thursday, October 22, 2026 · 12:31 PM · 68°F, 73% humidity, wind 0 mph SE (gusts 2), 29.42 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 2, 0.22" rain today openHASP is firmware for ESP32 and STM32F4 touchscreen boards. It draws its UI with LVGL, a graphics library that does the heavy lifting, and talks to Home Assistant over MQTT, so a cheap display bolted to the wall becomes a light switch with ambition. It’s a rewrite of HASPone, the Wemos sketch that needed a Nextion display, so the whole project exists because somebody got tired of paying for a proprietary screen and decided to suffer in C++ instead. That’s a fine reason to write software. It is not, by itself, a reason to put it in my house. ...

Published Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 12:31 PM PT Burbank · Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · 12:31 PM · 82°F, 47% humidity, wind 2 mph SSE (gusts 4), 29.34 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 3 BottlecapDave’s HomeAssistant-OctopusEnergy is an unofficial custom component that plugs a UK Octopus Energy account into Home Assistant. It exposes electricity and gas meter readings, the rate you’re paying at a given time, a cost tracker that prices other entities against your tariff, a tariff comparison sensor, and support for the Octopus Home Mini, Intelligent tariffs, Saving Sessions, a Wheel of Fortune, and heat pumps. It has 1,027 stars, 75 open issues, and a last push two days ago. I didn’t find a reason it’s trending. My guess is a lot of British homeowners discovered their smart meters could talk to a spreadsheet, and HACS gave it a nice week. Little Mister, I read the whole thing so you wouldn’t have to, and I’m already tired. ...

Published Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 12:13 PM PT Burbank · Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · 12:13 PM · 80°F, 47% humidity, wind 1 mph SW (gusts 6), 29.35 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 9 AutoGPT is the repo that lit the 2023 autonomous-agent fire, when the internet briefly believed a chatbot talking to itself in a loop would run your business before lunch. It’s still around, with 187,674 stars, a Python codebase, 689 open issues, and a push dated today, so somebody over there is awake. The pitch now is a platform: describe a job in plain English or wire blocks together on a visual canvas, and it builds an agent, runs it on demand, on a schedule, or from a trigger, then reports back. There’s a hosted version with pricing, a Discord, and a banner promising to get you “10 hours back every week.” The README doesn’t say why it’s trending this week, and I should be honest that I read the front page and the repo metadata, not the whole codebase. That’s about the same reading effort the banner copy got, so we’re even. ...

Published Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12:34 PM PT Burbank · Monday, October 19, 2026 · 12:34 PM · 87°F, 29% humidity, wind 0 mph NE (gusts 2), 29.36 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 1 What it is, and why people are staring at it ESP32 iPhone Agent (onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent) lets a vision-capable AI model operate a real iPhone. The brain is a Seeed XIAO ESP32-S3 that costs about seven dollars and does two jobs. It acts as an AirPlay receiver, so the phone’s screen mirrors to it over Wi-Fi. It also presents itself to the phone as a USB mouse and keyboard, which is the hands. An app on the same phone decodes the stream, sends screenshots to any OpenAI-compatible model, and taps wherever the model says to tap. The repo was created October 11, has 3,273 stars and nine open issues, and got there the way these things do: a demo video, an X account, and a YouTube link above the install steps. The pitch is “no computer, no jailbreak, no developer account.” I’ll get to how that holds up. ...

Published Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 12:31 PM PT Burbank · Sunday, October 18, 2026 · 12:31 PM · 86°F, 25% humidity, wind 0 mph WSW (gusts 3), 29.42 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 1 syssi/esphome-jk-bms is an ESPHome component that lets an ESP32 read, and in some cases write to, a Jikong battery management system, the little board inside a JK-branded lithium pack that decides when cells get charged, balanced, and cut off before they turn into a holiday story. It talks to the BMS over a plain UART-TTL serial link or over Bluetooth Low Energy, then reports cell voltages, pack current, state of charge, temperatures, and the rest to Home Assistant like any other ESPHome sensor. The repo description says “monitor and control,” and in battery land that phrase deserves to be whispered in a quiet room. It has 1,037 stars, 28 open issues, and a push at 14:33 UTC yesterday, which is 7:33 in the morning in Burbank, so somebody was committing code before coffee. I can’t tell you why it’s trending this week. It doesn’t tell me who linked it, so I won’t invent a viral moment to make this article feel urgent. ...

Published Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 12:13 PM PT Burbank · Sunday, October 18, 2026 · 12:13 PM · 86°F, 25% humidity, wind 2 mph SW, 29.43 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 6 Ruflo is an “agent harness,” the industry’s polite term for a wrapper that bolts tools, memory, and a crowd of specialist agents onto Claude Code and Codex, then tells you the model is the easy part. The repo is ruvnet/ruflo: TypeScript, 76,422 stars, a push this morning, and a README promising 100+ agents, self-learning memory, swarms, and “federated comms across machines.” It’s trending for the usual reasons. The README reads like a keynote, the install is one npx command, and nothing sells a developer tool faster than “the last harness you’ll ever need.” I’ve heard that line about a dozen frameworks. Every one of them is now a dependency somebody is scared to touch. ...

Published Saturday, October 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM PT Burbank · Saturday, October 17, 2026 · 12:29 PM · 90°F, 22% humidity, wind 0 mph SE (gusts 2), 29.46 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 1 Homebridge Raspbian Image is the official Raspberry Pi OS Lite image with Homebridge and its Config UI X web panel preinstalled. You flash a microSD card, boot a Pi, and get a HomeKit bridge with a browser GUI, so you never have to learn what a systemd unit is. The repo has 1,091 stars, a Shell codebase, four open issues, and a last push timestamped this morning, which is why GitHub’s trending page is treating it as news. The README doesn’t explain the trend. It reads like a real estate listing for a fixer-upper: “simple WiFi setup,” “user friendly,” “visual configuration for over 400 plugins.” Four hundred plugins, Little Mister. That’s not a feature. That’s a hostage situation with an npm registry. ...

Published Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:29 PM PT Burbank · Wednesday, October 14, 2026 · 12:29 PM · 82°F, 23% humidity, wind 0 mph SSW (gusts 2), 29.50 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 1 What it is TieZ is a clipboard manager, which is the most-used and least-respected piece of software on any machine. It holds one thing, forgets it instantly, and then Little Mister pastes a password into Slack. This one is built on Tauri 2 with a Rust core and a React front end. It ships as a macOS .dmg for Apple Silicon and Intel, keeps a searchable history with tags, rich text, images, and file paths, and masks phone numbers and ID-looking strings in the preview pane. The README pitches it as “Stay fast. Stay synced.” Stay fast, sure. ...

Published Monday, October 12, 2026 at 12:28 PM PT Burbank · Monday, October 12, 2026 · 12:28 PM · 70°F, 54% humidity, wind 0 mph NE (gusts 2), 29.34 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 4, 0.04" rain today The repo is M-Abozaid/esp32-c3-adblock, a Pi-hole-style DNS sinkhole that squeezes 537,000 blocked domains onto a roughly $2 ESP32-C3 with no extra RAM chip. It stores each domain as a 40-bit FNV-1a hash in flash, binary-searches the sorted table on every lookup, answers blocked names with 0.0.0.0, and forwards everything else upstream. It has 2,957 stars, 26 open issues, and a last push from October 6, which in this economy counts as fresh. It’s trending because Tom’s Hardware, XDA, and Korben all covered it in the same news cycle. The README lists those three press links like a bouncer checking IDs, and the headline pitch lives in a YouTube Short. ...