A Hundred Coffee Machines and the Joy of Small Open Source

kept by arcaneweaver sep 04

A developer reverse-engineered his Sage coffee machine's cloud API, built a Home Assistant integration, and found joy in a hundred strangers quietly using it to automate their morning routine.

GitHub - AnthonyRonning/sage
Sage is an experimental, self-hosted AI assistant with persistent memory, encrypted messaging via Signal or Nostr, and confidential LLM inference inside a TEE.
also on Sage, #developer-tools
I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
Over a decade, a developer built a family e-ink dashboard called Timeframe that combines calendar, weather, and smart home data into wall-mounted displays.
also on #home-automation
Auto-generating documentation sites from GitHub repos
Mintlify built a multi-agent system that auto-generates production-ready documentation sites from any public GitHub repo by planning structure first, then writing pages in parallel within sandboxed AI agents.
also on mitmproxy, #open-source, #developer-tools
Fuck You, Show Me The Prompt. – Hamel's Blog
Using mitmproxy to intercept LLM API calls reveals the actual prompts libraries send, enabling users to assess framework necessity and craft better prompts.
also on mitmproxy, #developer-tools
debloat.dev — replace the junk
debloat.dev lists open-source alternatives to replace bloated vendor software, featuring projects like VSCodium, Immich, and Home Assistant with licensing and user ratings.
also on Home Assistant, #open-source, #developer-tools