Gabriel Lewis

Your Smart Devices Don’t Have to Die Young - Innovation at Consumer Reports Consumer Reports recommends manufacturers take the following steps to design long-lived connected devices.

Today we're publishing our list of recommendations on how to build long-lived IoT devices. We're trying to address the factors that lead to your smart thermostat losing functionality or even dying altogether when the manufacturer decides to stop supporting it. It doesn't have to be this way.

how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

Boring Is What We Wanted - 512 Pixels We are coming up on five years since the first M1 Macs shipped. It was an incredible time to be a Mac user. Those first Apple silicon Macs looked like the Intel machines they replaced, but they were better in every single way. In December 2020, John Gruber wrote: We knew this to be true: […]

Boring Is What We Wanted

https://512pixels.net/2025/10/boring-is-what-we-wanted/

SF folks! I built a site over the weekend that helps you quickly check if an apartment is rent controlled using public SF Gov data. Still ironing out a few bugs, but I’d love your feedback. rentcontrolchecker.com

Four Corners: the first game in Catalog written in Swift - Playdate News Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.

Writing Swift for tiny devices: an article on Playdate game Four Corners, recently rewritten in Swift for faster performance news.play.date/news/four-co...
TL;DR "Any game that is particularly demanding that you would typically want to write in C could probably be achieved with Swift."

Are you using git?

Open models by OpenAI Advanced open-weight reasoning models to customize for any use case and run anywhere.

The open weight OpenAI models are out LFG!!!!!!
AND theres 120B and a 20B option that can run on laptops! Downloading the 20B now with ollama

Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia Hackaday Article

Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia

Seriously though it’s awesome that @paulusschoutsen.nl and crew have made it so easy to replace the enclosure of the Voice PE support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/art...

I have the one and only 24k gold Home Assistant Voice PE @home-assistant.io

My favorite new feature in iOS 26 beta! Hopefully this makes it full release.

Peacock above HBO? 🤣

@liss.bsky.social I think you need to update your website. 👀@siracusa.social

This shows the true power of open. Skylord123 didn’t need permission from Home Assistant or Pebble to make and publish this app. A 10 year old watch is now talking to state of the art voice assistants via Home Assistant.

Open technologies for the win.

Apple intelligence in a nutshell

iOS 18.3 automatically enables Apple Intelligence for users, requires opt-out to disable - 9to5Mac Apple Intelligence is being enabled by default starting in iOS 18.3, a big change that shows Apple’s confidence in the AI features.

I find it incredibly funny that Apple is enabling Apple Intelligence by default in the same update it is also scaling back one of the flagship features because of controversies.

If you don’t use wireless CarPlay that is.

What year is it?

Same 🫣

Wait until you discover Gridfinity 😳

I cancelled my YT TV subscription when they raised the price from $35 to $40.

Do you use a filament dryer?

Hello 👋