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More power, less complexity
Some people still talk about Home Assistant like you need YAML, coding knowledge, and a quiet evening just to automate a light. That has not been true for a while.Home Assistant in 2026 does not require coding. It does not require YAML. You can build seri
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Open source won. That is why LGTM stopped being enough
There was a time when a pull request could get a quick look, a passing CI run, maybe a familiar name attached to it, and a simple "LGTM".Looks good to me.That did not mean maintainers were careless. It did not mean nobody cared about quality. It meant the
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Automation modes in Home Assistant: Why the default isn't your friend
Today I want to talk about something tiny in Home Assistant that explains a lot of "why did nothing happen?" moments: automation modes.You know that moment when you press a button twice and the second press appears to do absolutely nothing? Or when a moti
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A smart home will not save the planet
A day like World Environment Day makes it tempting to put a green sticker on technology and call it progress.Better apps. Smarter devices. More dashboards. More "eco" modes. More leaf icons. And sure, some of it is useful.But a smart home will not save th
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Open source was not ready for AI-speed contributions
If I rent an excavator to dig a hole for a swimming pool, I do not suddenly become a professional.I become a person with a very powerful tool and a very real chance of making a much bigger mess. I will probably hit something I should not hit. The hole wil
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Your editor is a supply chain security risk now
I read GitHub's incident write-up and had one of those annoying little moments where you immediately start thinking about your own setup. Not because I found something terrible, but because I found something normal. And honestly, that might be worse. GitH
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So... can Home Assistant run DOOM?
Last week I was at the Home Assistant community meetup in Cologne. Packed room, good food and drinks, and the kind of conversations that only happen when you put a hundred smart home nerds in one place.At some point I ran into T-Flow. He was wearing a DOO
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The chaos begins: Building my Home Assistant smart home from scratch
We got the keys 48 hours ago. The house is full of boxes, our stuff is everywhere, and I have absolutely no idea how half the smart home equipment already installed actually works.Perfect. This is the first video in my new series where I'm documenting the
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Moving to a new smart home: The exciting agony of not having the keys yet
I can't sleep.It's not stress, exactly. It's not anxiety. It's just... my brain won't shut up about the new place.We're moving mid-December. The house is bought, the old place is sold (and yes, I took every single smart device with me), and now I'm sittin
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Renaming Home Assistant add-ons to apps
Rather watch a video version of this blog? Click here to view the video on my YouTube channel.I opened an architecture proposal to rename "add-ons" to "apps" in Home Assistant. Before you think this is just bike-shedding about terminology, let me explain
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