Opening night of Gordon’s play – Taylor has been helping backstage, with a full update next week
Taylor has been sorting out his smart home with Home Assistant
Making the home feel smart – automations that work without needing to open a dashboard
Motion-controlled lighting, with guest and sleep modes to stop lights coming on when they shouldn’t
Using pen.dev to design a custom Home Assistant interface
Working out which controls need to be one tap away by noticing what you use most often
Local voice control, with commands that understand which room you’re in
A rotating desk display showing calendar events, tasks, door and window status, and the alarm
Countdowns for when to leave – traffic-aware travel times are still to be added
Automatically switching on a meeting light when Taylor is home, and turning everything off when he leaves
Gordon has been 3D printing good luck presents for his fellow cast members
Old, brittle filament breaking in the feed tubes and causing failed prints
Keeping filament dry – checking humidity and refreshing the silica gel beads in the AMS
Finding a way to reactivate the silica gel rather than throwing it away
Using ChatGPT to turn the successful process into a visual guide, saved in Evernote for next time
Documenting jobs you don’t do often so you don’t have to work them out again
SOPs – standard operating procedures – help you follow each step and avoid forgetting anything
Making processes available to the team so you aren’t the only person who knows how to do a task
Taylor recommends Layla at ProcessDriven for advice on documenting business processes – https://processdriven.co/
Keeping instructions visual, easy to find and updated when things change
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