Home automation is cool. It really is. Switch power and or off, lights come on with a touch or voice command, everything can be controlled ….
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Whenever you work in a local environment, you have to deal with a variety of problems. From setting fixed DHCP leases to creating special name ….
After having been working with voice controlled or .. voice activated “smart” environments for a while, here’s my take: This could get really great if ….
Some folks actually have a weird attitude towards PHP. I understand that it isn’t a “pure” language. It’s not truly “objective”. It’s inconsistent. Too many ….
So – you got this Amazon Alexa device at Cyber-Monday? And maybe a connected “smart” plug or light bulb? Before you start adding more “smart” ….
Sometimes we have to send short command sequences and/or replies over unprotected networks. Especially when working with IoT environments. Though SSL/TLS is always preferred – ….
Cheap IoT devices like power plugs are mostly manufactured in China. They connect to “bridging” servers we don’t really have control over, they are usually ….
I remember my first “ping” to prep.ai.mit.edu. This must have been around 1993 . I worked with networks before that time, hacking X.25 networks and ….
The problem with geeks: We are never satisfied. But that’s not too much trouble for those of us who learned to code in the dark-ages ….
Alexa, Google Home, Siri – the new revolution of computing power is the spoken word. You just tell a device what you want and – ….