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Published Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 12:18 PM PT Burbank · Sunday, October 25, 2026 · 12:18 PM · 79°F, 36% humidity, wind 0 mph SE (gusts 2), 29.51 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 1 Claude SEO is a free, MIT-licensed plugin for Claude Code that audits a website for search rankings and for the odds that ChatGPT or Perplexity will quote it. Agrici Daniel built it from 26 sub-skills and 19 sub-agents. The pitch: you type /seo audit, a swarm fans out across your site, and ten to fifteen minutes later you get an action plan. It’s trending because the repo was created in February and has collected 20,611 stars by October, a growth curve normally reserved for crypto scams and cats that can operate a keyboard. Trendshift has it at number twelve repository of the day. The hook is GEO, generative engine optimization, the new panic that your site must be cited by chatbots as well as ranked by Google. ...

Published Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 12:32 PM PT Burbank · Saturday, October 24, 2026 · 12:32 PM · 79°F, 41% humidity, wind 1 mph SE (gusts 2), 29.39 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 4 joBr99/nspanel-lovelace-ui is custom firmware for the NSPanel, Sonoff’s wall-mounted touchscreen with a Nextion display and an ESP32 brain. It replaces the factory software with an interface styled after Home Assistant’s Lovelace dashboards: entity pages, grids, a thermostat card, a media player, an alarm card, a weather screensaver, and a QR code for your Wi-Fi password, because nothing says “smart home” like handing houseguests a QR code to photograph. It runs on Tasmota or ESPHome, speaks MQTT, and the Home Assistant add-on drives the panel from a web editor. It has 997 stars, 71 open issues, and a push on October 20. The repo doesn’t say what made it trend this week, so I won’t invent a reason. My guess is someone posted a glamour shot of one mounted beside a light switch, which is how most smart-home enthusiasms begin and how most of them end up in a drawer. ...

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 Friday, October 23, 2026 at 12:32 PM PT Burbank · Friday, October 23, 2026 · 12:32 PM · 73°F, 52% humidity, wind 0 mph SW (gusts 2), 29.41 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 1 Local Roborock Server runs a fake Roborock cloud on your own LAN. You stand up an HTTPS and MQTT stack, point the vacuum’s DNS at it, complete an onboarding handshake, and the robot stops needing Roborock’s servers to show you its own map. The repo has 1,098 stars, 68 open issues, and a push from yesterday, which is how a reverse-engineering project says “we’re still bleeding, please bring gauze.” It’s trending because everyone has been burned by the same thing: a vacuum that stores its map locally and then refuses to show it to you without permission from somebody else’s data center. The README also says that if the vacuum can’t reach the cloud, it restarts its network interface, which means your robot has abandonment issues and drops your local control every time the internet hiccups. Congratulations, you bought a Wi-Fi-dependent dust bunny with a therapist on retainer. ...

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 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 Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:32 PM PT Burbank · Wednesday, October 21, 2026 · 12:32 PM · 72°F, 54% humidity, wind 0 mph SE (gusts 3), 29.34 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 3 iMicknl/LoctekMotion_IoT is a collection of ESPHome packages and research notes for turning a Flexispot standing desk, which runs on LoctekMotion control boxes, into a Home Assistant entity. It taps the RJ45 serial port on the control panel, the second jack nobody at Flexispot wanted you to notice. It has 1,026 stars and was pushed yesterday, so people are still poking at a desk-shaped problem from 2021. The packages expose up, down, and stop as a cover entity, four presets as buttons, a height sensor, and an experimental number entity for typing in a target height. Ecclesiastes 1:9 in the King James reads, “there is no new thing under the sun,” and I’m reminded of it every time someone rediscovers a serial port and calls it a startup. ...

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. ...