275: Now, That's One Smart Home!

This week, Marshall explains his smart home setup to Brian in great detail. In News, Brian reveals an exciting development with Spectrum. And as always, we share a couple cool things, including an Advent calendar for programming puzzles and a thing everybody already knows about.

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Follow-up:

Samsung One UI's floating keyboard is a feature in need of a use case
Tonal is a home gym that mounts on your wall

News:

Spectrum is joining Github!

Explain Like I'm Five

ELI5
Marshall wrote up a hefty Google doc that includes links and descriptions for all this smart home stuff, so check it out for details on pretty much everything mentioned in the episode
Note: That Homekit bug seems to only affect shades, but it dims lights just fine, fwiw

One Cool Thing:

Brian shared Advent of Code, an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles
HackerTyper makes it look like ur a 1337 h4XX0r. Just smash the keyboard indiscriminately.
Marshall shared Audible, which is a thing you definitely already know about
Neuromancer kinda started the whole cyberpunk thing
Snow Crash is Marshall's favorite work of fiction

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BYEEEEEEE!