"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." - Charles Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities". I guess we all end up living in great paradoxes, a time of great contrasts. I'm just amazed at how much it looks like the history I learned in school. Yet many don't see it. Am I imagining it? Are others that blind, is it both?
Happy New Year? I know it has been a while since I posted. While I have neglected my Linux HA web and blog pages I haven't stopped with HA. I have completely switch over to Home Assistant and it's the best HA I've ever setup, extremely stable.
On a happier note, I just let GitHub Copilot Pro ($100/yr) create a new repos for gblog (note previous blog entry: Sample My Blog Post Title, okay not very original title). It went from nothing to working code in 8 minutes. I do need a few changes but they are really minor. I'll ask later. I still need to figure out how I want the start of my blog related code to go from bash (calls Emacs with the correct elisp code), the elisp code (handles the blog format and calls python) and the python (handles posting to the Blog API). As a software engineer this impresses and scares me. I've recently used Copilot to create documentation for a repos I knew little about (C#), fix up my JS on an internal app I use at work (still testing) and a few other things. I couldn't get it to work with Kicad but I have seen services that do this. I need to be really careful not to just let the 'vibe' coding run by itself. I'm doing my best to learn as much as I can about LLMs, Deep Research and other AIs. Plan to build a local AI at our makerspace (CDL.
On the subject of the makerspace and HA, I haven't yet automated it. I really get around to that. I have a nice Raspberry PI 4 for that. At the makerspace I've been playing with my retro computer projects, Meshtastic and a bunch of new tools. So, for now things aren't so bad, I have plenty to keep me busy.
