pony themed rpg dating simulator 😭😭😭

writes innovative new software

ahh, fuck

fuck, I remember now I unironically wrote code on my ti84 before I knew what coding was or how it worked at all

not that it’s complicated in any way

IIRC you write in “TI Basic” which is very human readable

Smart home stuff is unfairly maligned. You just need a few basic rules and some hobby time.

• Don’t buy wifi stuff.
• If it needs its own dedicated app, don’t buy it.
• Don’t buy smart appliances. If you want to smart up something expensive, get a cheap smart outlet or a cheap sensor that does the job.
• Use an open source platform like Home Assistant, not Google or Alexa or whatever.
• When you find something it can’t do that you want it to do, write some Python code and make it open source. You’ll get so much love from the community for the simplest things. Also the occasional person that angrily wants to know why your free thing doesn’t support his hyper specific use case but you can safely ignore that.

The engineer here definitely has ASD or ADHD and I’m fucking down for it. Way better than narcissistic tech bro syndrome.

Edit for context: I’m teaching strengths based pedagogy regarding neurodiversity, it’s on my mind lol