Quick Hack: Fix epub's for early reader books. github.com/philips/kids...

The HTML/CSS of kids early reader books is atrocious and impossible for koreader to render correctly. So, just throw it all out and repack the epub.

With how bad robot detection has become across the internet and AI crawling everything in sight it makes me wonder if the future is more like @tailscale.com ACLs and less like the wide default routed internet.

Off I go emailing support and asking for an IP whitelist like it is 1999.

In 2025 and you can't buy a light switch without brand advertising on it.

Lutron, Leviton and Legrand are not high fashion brands- they are light switches.

Product manager from Leviton saying "Well everyone else is doing it" www.reddit.com/r/homeautoma...

had this thought today.

Photo apps need the UX equivalent for "sifting through the shoe box". I want to collect the photos worth backing up forever.

Google Photos "favorites" doesn't work: you can't bulk favorite items.

Adding the photos to an "album" doesn't give indication if they are in or not in "the box".

Gah! Google! I use photoslibrary.readonly to backup my family photos to an external disk via rclone.

Google Takeout is a joke.

Where do I go now @ente.io? Last I tried it was way too slow on migrating my photo library. I really don't want to self host photos. Gah. What a mess.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The President aims to ban an entire law firm from Federal buildings.

I worked with professionals at Perkins Coie through my time at CoreOS.

I hope our judicial system can hold.

My confidence in RCV making a dent in all this was quite shaken by the response to 117 in Oregon.

I was sympathetic to the folks running elections who were opposed on the grounds that need money/support in their voting systems to implement it.

Need to figure out what needs to happen there now.

Unfortunately SANE doesn’t seem to enable the very 2008 features like the “email button” on the front panel.

gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/1/030000...

I bought a Canoscan Lide 100 flatbed scanner in 2008. I haven’t needed it for years.

But, today it came to my rescue! And amazingly it still worked thanks to SANE. www.sane-project.org

Thanks for keeping my 17 year old scanner alive SANE devs.

I built an NFC card reader to launch videos. It is an amazing experience for the kids. Built on Home Assistant and @jellyfin.bsky.social

github.com/philips/home...

Google Photos needs a way to keep a 1-to-1 backup on a personal hard drive. And Takeout ain't it.

I use rclone to accomplish this but... I regularly hit random rate limits on Google's side.

P.S. I love rclone (thanks @njcw.bsky.social) for making it possible for me to keep a backup despite Google.

Our experiments with YouTube Kids video curation has provided inspiration for my kids creativity.

Inspired by David M Birds YouTube videos they made their own Becorns from objects they collected nearby.

www.davidmbird.com/pages/becorn...

I turned these signs, which are made from a 4mm thick material called coroplast (corrugated plastic), into dividers and bins for my kids drawers.

A 3D printer is required but the little doodads that hold everything together are fairly fast to print.

www.printables.com/model/106936...

Those pressure washing and political signs that end up in the trash all over North America are an easy building material. And since these signs pop up like weeds constantly (and illegally) in the right of way everywhere- it is like a modern renewable resource.

So, what I recently did was...