Nicolas Fränkel·4d agoTwo nasty surprises in Home Assistant’s configLast year, I motorized the rolling shutters on the southern façade of my apartment. My idea was to manage them via Home Assistant. I had a…
InITNEXTbyNicolas Fränkel·Jun 25On programming languages, targets, and platformsI started as a Java developer, but for some time now, I have broadened my horizons. Recently, I thought about how early languages were…
Nicolas Fränkel·Jun 11Seasons time-lapse — the videoIn the first post of this series, I focused on the project foundations: what should I do to create a video from photos taken from the same…
InITNEXTbyNicolas Fränkel·Jun 4AI gateways: why and howBefore working for 2 years on the Apache APISIX API gateway, I was mainly oblivious to API gateways. It’s only by working with them that I…
Nicolas Fränkel·May 28Seasons time-lapse — alignmentIn the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a time-lapse of hundreds of pictures taken from nearly the same viewpoint over the…
Nicolas Fränkel·May 21Seasons time-lapse — the foundationsI live close to nature. I regularly go for a run in the countryside. Over several years, during my runs, I’ve taken pictures from the same…
InITNEXTbyNicolas Fränkel·May 14Tokensparsamkeit for coding assistantsYou make decisions with data. Most businesses assumed that the most data, the better the decision. Then, several factors put a halt to the…
InITNEXTbyNicolas Fränkel·May 7Designing a team of agentsI continue to experiment with AI in the context of software engineering. I’m fortunate that my team supports me in exploring different ways…
Nicolas Fränkel·Apr 30Three Mastodon issues because of Cloudflare Bot protectionI noticed some time ago that three Mastodon features had stopped working on my blog. Each of them seemed like a separate problem, but they…
InITNEXTbyNicolas Fränkel·Apr 23Making illegal state unrepresentableA couple of years ago, I wrote that The Builder pattern is a finite state machine!. A state machine consists of states and transitions…
