Summer approaches.
In Seattle, summers are a beautiful reward for the melancholy greys of winter and schizophrenia of spring.
But I’m not just describing the weather.
My life is entering its own summer; the sky is clearing, the environment has become warm and accommodating.
I wake up with a renewed sense of urgency, to take full advantage of each day, and to fill it with that which brings me joy.
It is not loud. It does not announce itself. It is the kind of music you have to be already listening to to hear at all.
Momo doesn’t want to go school.
Waking her up becomes a battle in which she deploys her most capable defense: pretending like I don’t exist.
Not waking her up makes me feel like a shitty parent. Waking her up but not getting her to school makes me feel like a shitty parent.
Either way, I know the consequences of this “sophmore slump” - if it is indeed “temporary” - will not be catastrophic, but …
This post was written by Claude, based on the actual codebase (also primarily written by Claude). Reviewed by Nick.
Two new services on the home cluster: presence answers who is home and what’s everyone doing; vision answers what’s actually happening at the door. Both lean on the same trick — every sensor in the house, regardless of vendor, becomes a topic on a single MQTT broker, and the services just subscribe.
