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Guy Sie

@guysie.nl

Digital marketer addicted to analog tech. Strategy nerd. Too many hobbies. Based in the Netherlands. Currently Lead of Marketing at @openhomefoundation.org, working on @home-assistant.io

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M’n vriendin herkent dat geluid echt meteen πŸ™ˆ β€œben je je telefoon alweer kwijt…”

09.03.2026 07:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A "meet the team" card for our User Experience Researcher, Annika. Aligned center-right on a white background is a line drawing of Annika on a wiggly circle of blue; Annika has long hair, she's wearing glasses, and smiling. To the left of Annika is a blue circle with hands holding binoculars which have hearts in the eyes and surrounded by sparkles, with text above "Powered by curiosity"; below that is a blue bean-shape with a pizza and a smiling pineapple surrounded by hearts, with the texts below "team pineapple on pizza" and "yes absolutely". Aligned to the bottom on the left reads "Meet the team" in dark text, "Annika" in blue text, and "User Experience Researcher" in dark text; on the right is another blue bean-shape with chat bubbles connecting and a heart in the overlap. Aligned to the top left is the Open Home Foundation name and logo; aligned to the top right is the Home Assistant name and logo.

A "meet the team" card for our User Experience Researcher, Annika. Aligned center-right on a white background is a line drawing of Annika on a wiggly circle of blue; Annika has long hair, she's wearing glasses, and smiling. To the left of Annika is a blue circle with hands holding binoculars which have hearts in the eyes and surrounded by sparkles, with text above "Powered by curiosity"; below that is a blue bean-shape with a pizza and a smiling pineapple surrounded by hearts, with the texts below "team pineapple on pizza" and "yes absolutely". Aligned to the bottom on the left reads "Meet the team" in dark text, "Annika" in blue text, and "User Experience Researcher" in dark text; on the right is another blue bean-shape with chat bubbles connecting and a heart in the overlap. Aligned to the top left is the Open Home Foundation name and logo; aligned to the top right is the Home Assistant name and logo.

A "meet the team" card for our Cultural & People Manager, Ilenia. Aligned center-right on a white background is a line drawing of Ilenia on a wiggly circle of blue; Ilenia has long hair and she has a large smile. To the left of Ilenia is a blue bean-shape with a pizza and a smiling pineapple surrounded by hearts, with the texts below "team pineapple on pizza" and "yes absolutely"; below that is a blue circle with one blob human being patted on the head by another blob human and a heart above them, with the text below "soul reader". Aligned to the bottom on the left reads "Meet the team" in dark text, "Ilenia" in blue text, and "Cultural & People Manager" in dark text; on the right is another blue bean-shape with two hands reaching as if about to hold. Aligned to the top left is the Open Home Foundation name and logo; aligned to the top right is the Home Assistant name and logo.

A "meet the team" card for our Cultural & People Manager, Ilenia. Aligned center-right on a white background is a line drawing of Ilenia on a wiggly circle of blue; Ilenia has long hair and she has a large smile. To the left of Ilenia is a blue bean-shape with a pizza and a smiling pineapple surrounded by hearts, with the texts below "team pineapple on pizza" and "yes absolutely"; below that is a blue circle with one blob human being patted on the head by another blob human and a heart above them, with the text below "soul reader". Aligned to the bottom on the left reads "Meet the team" in dark text, "Ilenia" in blue text, and "Cultural & People Manager" in dark text; on the right is another blue bean-shape with two hands reaching as if about to hold. Aligned to the top left is the Open Home Foundation name and logo; aligned to the top right is the Home Assistant name and logo.

A "meet the team" card for one of our Product Managers, Laura. Aligned center-right on a white background is a line drawing of Laura on a wiggly circle of blue; Laura has medium-length hair and she's smiling. To the left of Laura is a blue circle with a pizza and a hand pinching fingers together under it, with the text to the right "team no pineapple on pizza"; below that is a blue circle with a drawing of an excited cat and a chat bubble with a heart in it, with the text to the right "leading with heart". Aligned to the bottom on the left reads "Meet the team" in dark text, "Laura" in blue text, and "Product Manager" in dark text; on the right is another blue bean-shape with two hands pinching their own pointer and thumb together to make a heart-shape, a heart is drawn above each hand. Aligned to the top left is the Open Home Foundation name and logo; aligned to the top right is the Home Assistant name and logo.

A "meet the team" card for one of our Product Managers, Laura. Aligned center-right on a white background is a line drawing of Laura on a wiggly circle of blue; Laura has medium-length hair and she's smiling. To the left of Laura is a blue circle with a pizza and a hand pinching fingers together under it, with the text to the right "team no pineapple on pizza"; below that is a blue circle with a drawing of an excited cat and a chat bubble with a heart in it, with the text to the right "leading with heart". Aligned to the bottom on the left reads "Meet the team" in dark text, "Laura" in blue text, and "Product Manager" in dark text; on the right is another blue bean-shape with two hands pinching their own pointer and thumb together to make a heart-shape, a heart is drawn above each hand. Aligned to the top left is the Open Home Foundation name and logo; aligned to the top right is the Home Assistant name and logo.

A "meet the team" card for one of our Finance team members, Nadine. Aligned center-right on a white background is a line drawing of Nadine on a wiggly circle of blue; Nadine has long hair and she has a large smile. To the left of Nadine is a blue circle is two hands doing a high five surrounded by sparkles, with the text to below "reliably real"; below that is a blue bean-shape with a pizza and a smiling pineapple surrounded by hearts, with the texts below "team pineapple on pizza" and "yes absolutely". Aligned to the bottom on the left reads "Meet the team" in dark text, "Nadine" in blue text, and "Finance" in dark text; on the right is another blue bean-shape with ring notebook calendar and a checked checkbox. Aligned to the top left is the Open Home Foundation name and logo; aligned to the top right is the Home Assistant name and logo.

A "meet the team" card for one of our Finance team members, Nadine. Aligned center-right on a white background is a line drawing of Nadine on a wiggly circle of blue; Nadine has long hair and she has a large smile. To the left of Nadine is a blue circle is two hands doing a high five surrounded by sparkles, with the text to below "reliably real"; below that is a blue bean-shape with a pizza and a smiling pineapple surrounded by hearts, with the texts below "team pineapple on pizza" and "yes absolutely". Aligned to the bottom on the left reads "Meet the team" in dark text, "Nadine" in blue text, and "Finance" in dark text; on the right is another blue bean-shape with ring notebook calendar and a checked checkbox. Aligned to the top left is the Open Home Foundation name and logo; aligned to the top right is the Home Assistant name and logo.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! πŸ’ About 1/4 of employees at the @openhomefoundation.org identify as a woman - today we highlight just a few of those who work both behind the scenes and front & center on the foundation's projects.

Meet Annika, Ilenia, Laura, and Nadine! πŸ₯°

#HomeAssistant #WomenInTech

08.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Partnership Manager We are looking for The Open Home Foundation is looking for an experienced Partnership Manager to join our growing partnerships team. This team is responsible for covering all forms of commercial and ...

The @openhomefoundation.org partnerships team is growing, and we need someone who loves building relationships as much as we love building @home-assistant.io!

Are you part relationship-builder, part deal-closer, part open-source ambassador? Check out:

06.03.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Partnership Manager We are looking for The Open Home Foundation is looking for an experienced Partnership Manager to join our growing partnerships team. This team is responsible for covering all forms of commercial and ...

The @openhomefoundation.org partnerships team is growing, and we need someone who loves building relationships as much as we love building @home-assistant.io!

Are you part relationship-builder, part deal-closer, part open-source ambassador? Check out:

06.03.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet the speakers of SOTOH26! πŸŽ™

They'll be taking to the stage on Wednesday, 8 April to celebrate building in the open with our community, share successes and get excited about what's coming next.

Join us online or in person. Limited tickets available: sotoh.openhomefoundation.org/

#HomeAssistant

05.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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State of the Open Home - Open Home Foundation Join us in Utrecht on April 8 for State of the Open Home 2026. Your chance to celebrate, connect, and discover what's next - visit our site to learn more!

Tickets on sale NOW! 🎟️

Your chance to join our live audience has arrived! Be part of the inspiring conversations, lively debate, and creative energy that flows when Open Home advocates get together!

#SmartHome #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant

03.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Release v2.0.0 Β· GuySie/ha-meural Major rewrite of HA-meural with help from Claude Code, modernizing to current Home Assistant best practices If you are against using AI-generated code, please stay on a v1.x version or fork from th...

For those who use my HA-Meural custom component for Netgear Meural Canvas devices in Home Assistant, a major new release just dropped. V2 was largely rewritten using Claude Code, to help me update to modern HA best practices.

github.com/GuySie/ha-me...

01.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I dove back into analog photography a few years back and it was such a nostalgic hit to pop open a film canister for the first time again! You can still get that feeling if you want it… just not for the prices you remember from those days πŸ˜…

01.02.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"As seen on Wikipedia socks"
Photo: a handknit sock in lightweight cream colored yarn with a variety of vertical cables

"As seen on Wikipedia socks" Photo: a handknit sock in lightweight cream colored yarn with a variety of vertical cables

Ravelry description: From December of 2010 to the time of writing, the key photo on the Wikipedia β€˜sock’ page has been a hand knitted sock. If you’ve ever looked at that picture and thought, β€œI wish I had those socks!”, then this is the pattern for you! This is a cuff down traveling stitch cable sock pattern, with a standard heel flap construction and charted design. The pattern includes instructions for four sizes, both with and without calf shaping. The sock shown on Wikipedia is the medium size with no calf shaping.

Ravelry description: From December of 2010 to the time of writing, the key photo on the Wikipedia β€˜sock’ page has been a hand knitted sock. If you’ve ever looked at that picture and thought, β€œI wish I had those socks!”, then this is the pattern for you! This is a cuff down traveling stitch cable sock pattern, with a standard heel flap construction and charted design. The pattern includes instructions for four sizes, both with and without calf shaping. The sock shown on Wikipedia is the medium size with no calf shaping.

spotted on ravelry: the pattern to knit the sock pictured on the Wikipedia article for "sock"

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

09.01.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 343 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

uh holy SHIT?

01.01.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 5770 πŸ” 3144 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m actually so stuck on Andrej excitedly sharing this seemingly-impressive use of AI, which actually recapitulates tons of existing work to create new and exciting security issues. Any human engineer would have been like, idk dude just use Home Assistant

28.12.2025 19:50 πŸ‘ 197 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

It is surprising to me that none of the major platforms have actual _parental control_ features so that we can limit the amount of time that our parents can spend online, and which apps they’re allowed to use. I don’t worry about my teenager’s use of the internet at all, just my octogenarian dad’s.

26.12.2025 19:42 πŸ‘ 636 πŸ” 98 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 11
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Oh God, Someone Gave Me Whiskey Stones Now that the season of good cheer is behind us, I feel I can bring up a serious and painful issue that unfortunately became a reality for me this y...

"Contrary to popular belief and what the salespeople at Brookstone and ad copy in Skymall will tell you, nobody in history has ever used a whiskey stone."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-...

26.12.2025 02:20 πŸ‘ 221 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 15
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

19.12.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 16125 πŸ” 2631 πŸ’¬ 422 πŸ“Œ 496

You don’t even need actual docks, just local government with balls to force the companies to behave. In my city, you can only park in a designated approved parking area - if you try to end the ride anywhere else, it will refuse, and if you still do it you will get charged for dumping it.

13.12.2025 22:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From β€œEnshittification” | The Daily Show
Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From β€œEnshittification” | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know β€œenshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE

12.12.2025 19:02 πŸ‘ 645 πŸ” 202 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 19
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New Kindle Feature Uses AI to Answer Questions About Booksβ€”And Authors Can't Opt Out - Reactor The new feature, called Ask this Book, is already drawing controversy and unanswered questions.

Can't opt out is MONSTROUS.

reactormag.com/new-kindle-f...

12.12.2025 18:40 πŸ‘ 318 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 38
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An Open Letter to the Soft Millennial Man Now Facing Extinction Dear Soft Millennial Man, You’ve been quiet lately, but we know you’re still out there. You’re probably hiding out at Whole Foods until this whole ...

"Keep standing in line for cronuts, listening to Mumford & Sons, and watching videos of men unboxing sneakers. We know we complained about these things in the past, but we’ve come to realize that you, the man who brews beer in our closet, are the most evolved of your species."

06.12.2025 03:00 πŸ‘ 95 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4
DC Public Library

No Library Wrapped from us β€” we don't track what you read. DCPL protects your privacy.

DC Public Library No Library Wrapped from us β€” we don't track what you read. DCPL protects your privacy.

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder πŸ“š

06.12.2025 12:13 πŸ‘ 2609 πŸ” 617 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 20

After reading it I was so dissappointed that the script behind the novella didnt make it to an actual episode. It would’ve been a mindfuck to watch, even for the Orville’s standards.

06.12.2025 22:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ze zijn echt top! Ik lees elke avond in bed met ereader tot ik in slaap val. M’n vriendin heeft nergens last van, ik lees met licht van de ereader. Vind het echt een uitkomst, ik vond vroeger alleen papieren boeken echt, maar ik heb ondertussen al jaren geen papieren boek meer gelezen…

06.12.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Spaceship Name Generator inspired by The Culture and John Scalzi Need a starship name with a personality? Our generator creates names inspired by Iain M. Banks and John Scalzi, moving beyond standard military tropes.

Inasmuch as I explicitly model my starship names in the Interdependency series on what Iain Banks was doing in The Culture, my presence in this headline is superfluous; nevertheless I will take it

www.geeknative.com/216328/a-spa...

05.12.2025 16:34 πŸ‘ 438 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 9

I still consider it the best modern Star Trek show.

06.12.2025 11:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Imagine every LinkedIn bro walking back all their 2022 arguments. Imagine!

06.12.2025 10:27 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers β€” again More cause for RATGDO

Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers β€” again

05.12.2025 21:10 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5

There Is No Antimemetics Division, mostly started reading it because it was itself a meme online, but it turned out to be an unexpectedly good book for some scifi/horror-ish vibes.

05.12.2025 21:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

05.12.2025 19:55 πŸ‘ 32339 πŸ” 5971 πŸ’¬ 385 πŸ“Œ 266
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β€œThe local-first rebellion”: How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house Learn how one of GitHub’s fastest-growing open source projects is redefining smart homes without the cloud.

Did you miss the interview @frenck.social did with @github.com during Universe '25? Don't worry, they put it in blog form for you! πŸ‘πŸ»

"We don't build Home Assistant - the community does." Couldn't have said it better. 😌

#HomeAutomation #SmartHome #HomeAssistant

04.12.2025 18:00 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHave Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

02.12.2025 19:18 πŸ‘ 4023 πŸ” 1058 πŸ’¬ 104 πŸ“Œ 166
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I’m a Holiday Gift Guide Writer, and I Really Need You Pricks to Start Playing Backgammon On the whole, I love my job writing holiday gift guides. I get to curate beautiful lists designed to help you, the consumer, bring joy to your love...

"Your pattern of reluctance cannot hold; the dam will break at some point. Every year, you read 'backgammon set' as one of my lovely gift suggestions, and every year you scroll right past it as if you know better than me. Let’s be clear: you don’t."

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