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For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s become such a hobby of mine that I’ve even started coding add-ons for it. While there are other popular automation platforms, Home Assistant’s versatility blows the rest out of the water. It connects to everything I […] The post My Home Assistant setup (2023 edition) appeared first on Style over Substance.
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Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation

In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a short city trip a few years earlier, and that experience was so good we knew we had to return. This time, we decided to take a full three weeks and see the sights. We were planning […] The post Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation appeared first on Style over Substance.

11 months ago 134 votes
Using the EZCOO / AVStar HAE118 HDMI2.1 Audio Extractor for PS5/Xbox audio

Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out of this console meant we also had to buy a new TV, as our old TV was not 4K-compatible and did not support HDMI2.1, the new A/V standard required to support all of the PS5’s capabilities. […] The post Using the EZCOO / AVStar HAE118 HDMI2.1 Audio Extractor for PS5/Xbox audio appeared first on Style over Substance.

a year ago 79 votes
CANARY Corrugated Cardboard Cutter

The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases ever. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, we all started shopping online a lot more. The number of cardboard boxes in our house basically quadrupled overnight and cutting them down to size for recycling became like a second job. It turns […] The post CANARY Corrugated Cardboard Cutter appeared first on Style over Substance.

over a year ago 98 votes
Guy’s Cool Tools

This is a placeholder post! I’m a huge fan of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site and have loved their recommendations for years. So much, so that I even started a Pinterest board filled with my own recommendations. But after a few years of running into the limitations of the form, I feel such a project […] The post Guy’s Cool Tools appeared first on Style over Substance.

over a year ago 108 votes

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It looks like the code that the newly announced Figma Sites is producing isn’t the best. There are some cool Figma-to-WordPress workflows; I hope Sites gets more people exploring those options.

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What got you here…

John Siracusa: Apple Turnover From virtue comes money, and all other good things. This idea rings in my head whenever I think about Apple. It’s the most succinct explanation of what pulled Apple from the brink of bankruptcy in the 1990s to its astronomical success today. Don’

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A single RGB camera turns your palm into a keyboard for mixed reality interaction

Interactions in mixed reality are a challenge. Nobody wants to hold bulky controllers and type by clicking on big virtual keys one at a time. But people also don’t want to carry around dedicated physical keyboard devices just to type every now and then. That’s why a team of computer scientists from China’s Tsinghua University […] The post A single RGB camera turns your palm into a keyboard for mixed reality interaction appeared first on Arduino Blog.

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Nintendo's financial results are actually pretty interesting

Nintendo's fiscal year just ended on March 31, and their annual results report has some goodies in there I thought were worth shouting out. First up, the company made a lot less money than in the previous year, with 30% lower revenue and 46% lower profits. As someone

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