Allie the Icon
@allietheicon.com
An odd, borderline pretentious art film that has taken human form 💁🏼♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Loudly and proudly polyamorous and neurodivergent 💪🏻
🏡 SF Bay
🔗 https://allietheicon.com/links/
Loudly and proudly polyamorous and neurodivergent 💪🏻
🏡 SF Bay
🔗 https://allietheicon.com/links/
The latest @home-assistant.io update brought an amazing improvement to automation editing. By putting the node config in a separate frame, it's so much easier to edit parameters while still keeping view of the overall automation flow. Such a seemingly small change with massive usability impact!
September 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The latest @home-assistant.io update brought an amazing improvement to automation editing. By putting the node config in a separate frame, it's so much easier to edit parameters while still keeping view of the overall automation flow. Such a seemingly small change with massive usability impact!
This is your regularly-scheduled reminder to exercise your right to download archives from the services you use and archive them in your backups. Don't let a service shutting down (or legislation backsliding) cause you to lose years of data that belongs to you.
August 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is your regularly-scheduled reminder to exercise your right to download archives from the services you use and archive them in your backups. Don't let a service shutting down (or legislation backsliding) cause you to lose years of data that belongs to you.
Every day I move closer to self-hosting every bit of digital architecture in my life. Today's project: Standing up Syncthing to replace Dropbox/iCloud/Google/One Drive.
August 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Every day I move closer to self-hosting every bit of digital architecture in my life. Today's project: Standing up Syncthing to replace Dropbox/iCloud/Google/One Drive.
The stage is my happiest place in the whole world
July 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The stage is my happiest place in the whole world
The training data for these has huge amounts of clickbait headlines them. The prevalence of "X things that most people never[...]" style headlines is manifesting in the AI but through a positive, encouragement framing. I wonder what other clickbait sentence structures show up in neat ways
June 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The training data for these has huge amounts of clickbait headlines them. The prevalence of "X things that most people never[...]" style headlines is manifesting in the AI but through a positive, encouragement framing. I wonder what other clickbait sentence structures show up in neat ways
So I've recently taken notice that both ChatGPT and Claude have a tendency to tell me variations of "you just [did an amazing thing] that most people never even dream of". This got me thinking about it and the answer is so obvious: clickbait titles [1/2]
June 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
So I've recently taken notice that both ChatGPT and Claude have a tendency to tell me variations of "you just [did an amazing thing] that most people never even dream of". This got me thinking about it and the answer is so obvious: clickbait titles [1/2]
Let's play a fun game of "which color indicates the selected state?" Clicking anywhere on the control toggles it, so you can't just click on one side to be sure
May 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Let's play a fun game of "which color indicates the selected state?" Clicking anywhere on the control toggles it, so you can't just click on one side to be sure
April 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
behind the scenes view of the high tech (but like, it actually was lmao) setup my group did for D&D livestreaming back when we were the only group in the world livestreaming this kind of content
(this photo is actually from several years in, when we used the SW EotE system hence the dice!)
(this photo is actually from several years in, when we used the SW EotE system hence the dice!)
March 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
behind the scenes view of the high tech (but like, it actually was lmao) setup my group did for D&D livestreaming back when we were the only group in the world livestreaming this kind of content
(this photo is actually from several years in, when we used the SW EotE system hence the dice!)
(this photo is actually from several years in, when we used the SW EotE system hence the dice!)
Wait is this how BlueSky has always looked? If the content is fixed width, I'd much rather be able to have the left nav buttons have text labels. I don't know what half those buttons do and there isn't even a hover tooltip??
Where is the universal UX element to expand the sidebar to have text??
Where is the universal UX element to expand the sidebar to have text??
February 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Wait is this how BlueSky has always looked? If the content is fixed width, I'd much rather be able to have the left nav buttons have text labels. I don't know what half those buttons do and there isn't even a hover tooltip??
Where is the universal UX element to expand the sidebar to have text??
Where is the universal UX element to expand the sidebar to have text??
Hmmm which service provider just went offline?
February 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Hmmm which service provider just went offline?
First shot is me standing inside this cool art installation next to the De Young, second shot is looking up at the center of the dome ceiling. I am obsessed with how two dimensional it looks because the sky above is perfectly monotone. Looked incredible in person!!
1st 📸 @rachael.z.photography
1st 📸 @rachael.z.photography
January 24, 2025 at 5:50 AM
First shot is me standing inside this cool art installation next to the De Young, second shot is looking up at the center of the dome ceiling. I am obsessed with how two dimensional it looks because the sky above is perfectly monotone. Looked incredible in person!!
1st 📸 @rachael.z.photography
1st 📸 @rachael.z.photography
LedFx running on a RPi Zero, controlling LEDs via DDP to a WLED controller.
The audio<->LED synchronization is accomplished via Snapcast! One snapclient outputs to the speakers while the other outputs to LedFx, allowing me to tweak the exact sync offset (it’s still a teeeeeny bit off in this vid)
The audio<->LED synchronization is accomplished via Snapcast! One snapclient outputs to the speakers while the other outputs to LedFx, allowing me to tweak the exact sync offset (it’s still a teeeeeny bit off in this vid)
December 14, 2024 at 2:13 AM
LedFx running on a RPi Zero, controlling LEDs via DDP to a WLED controller.
The audio<->LED synchronization is accomplished via Snapcast! One snapclient outputs to the speakers while the other outputs to LedFx, allowing me to tweak the exact sync offset (it’s still a teeeeeny bit off in this vid)
The audio<->LED synchronization is accomplished via Snapcast! One snapclient outputs to the speakers while the other outputs to LedFx, allowing me to tweak the exact sync offset (it’s still a teeeeeny bit off in this vid)
Thinkin' about having a little fool around with Gridfinity. Just a little fling, a little flirt and tease, a little who knows what. We'll just do a drawer or two and see where things lead. Real casual like.
December 12, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Thinkin' about having a little fool around with Gridfinity. Just a little fling, a little flirt and tease, a little who knows what. We'll just do a drawer or two and see where things lead. Real casual like.
Renaming the @home-assistant.io ESPHome addon to "ESPHome Compiler" made things click in to place in my brain after YEARS of using it. The addon is *just* for compiling firmware, and has nothing to do with the device <--> HA connection!
Naming things well is VERY important!
Naming things well is VERY important!
November 29, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Renaming the @home-assistant.io ESPHome addon to "ESPHome Compiler" made things click in to place in my brain after YEARS of using it. The addon is *just* for compiling firmware, and has nothing to do with the device <--> HA connection!
Naming things well is VERY important!
Naming things well is VERY important!
I have rolled a lot of my own home network/IoT/smarthome/applications/whatever over the years but good lord nothing even comes close to the frustrating complexity of anything to do with audio
All I wanted was the speakers in my room to be able to play music and deliver notifications
All I wanted was the speakers in my room to be able to play music and deliver notifications
November 26, 2024 at 5:56 AM
I have rolled a lot of my own home network/IoT/smarthome/applications/whatever over the years but good lord nothing even comes close to the frustrating complexity of anything to do with audio
All I wanted was the speakers in my room to be able to play music and deliver notifications
All I wanted was the speakers in my room to be able to play music and deliver notifications
"I'm waiting for my AI tokens to refresh" is the new "my code is compiling"
October 29, 2024 at 12:35 AM
"I'm waiting for my AI tokens to refresh" is the new "my code is compiling"
Found the hat for pansexuals
September 16, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Found the hat for pansexuals
Things that make my blood boil: My *headphones* forcing me to reboot to update their dumb software.
August 6, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Things that make my blood boil: My *headphones* forcing me to reboot to update their dumb software.
My first interaction with Meta AI was disturbingly prophetic
July 6, 2024 at 12:55 AM
My first interaction with Meta AI was disturbingly prophetic
I don't know what to sky on the blue sky. I feel like I'm out of practice. And I still haven't figured out a great way to follow people I used to know on Twitter
Here is a photo I took after I shuffled home after a night out that I haven't posted anywhere else
It's like an exclusive, a gift
Here is a photo I took after I shuffled home after a night out that I haven't posted anywhere else
It's like an exclusive, a gift
February 8, 2024 at 5:05 AM
I don't know what to sky on the blue sky. I feel like I'm out of practice. And I still haven't figured out a great way to follow people I used to know on Twitter
Here is a photo I took after I shuffled home after a night out that I haven't posted anywhere else
It's like an exclusive, a gift
Here is a photo I took after I shuffled home after a night out that I haven't posted anywhere else
It's like an exclusive, a gift