Nick Taylor

To be fair this whole thing is driven by my insistence on having smart things and still using the regular wall switch (although there are things you can wire into them). The Matter/Thread stuff is pretty slick and Hue have gotten their existing products onboard with it.

20.05.2025 09:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me, last month: A smart bulb in the living room might be nice in the evening
Me, today: So the Pi is running Home Assistant to identify the Hue bulbs being turned on at the power switch and toggle a virtual switch which Apple Home detects and turns Adaptive Lighting on. It works about half the time

19.05.2025 11:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

a large rock in the middle of the ocean with waves crashing against it ALT: a large rock in the middle of the ocean with waves crashing against it

It's a long swim for him

27.04.2025 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

10.04.2025 12:27 — 👍 19397    🔁 5461    💬 257    📌 417

Why is this always so difficult? It took my half an hour to get my Sonos back on the network and inevitably ends with having to go find the Long Ethernet Cable.

21.01.2025 11:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A decade late to the party but I’ve never loved any video game companion more than I love this big dozy bugger

27.12.2024 23:50 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Celebrated my first Christmas with the Canadian in-laws by importing my favourite festive tradition: gastroenteritis! Hope you enjoyed your food and drink more than me 🎄

26.12.2024 03:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There are some very important and world-changing jobs I vaguely aspire to do, but there's nothing really I want to do so much as design the pretend digital products and services that appear on TV shows. Genuinely the dream.

06.12.2024 19:48 — 👍 27    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 1

Lost #Whamageddon thanks to a BT call centre. Insult to injury.

04.12.2024 16:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ben, give Rob his phone back

30.11.2024 23:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Okay I’ll take that

27.11.2024 19:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lots of useful and worthy HCI starter packs but can we have one for all the conference shitposters please.

27.11.2024 19:07 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@aleecestar.bsky.social Annoyed I narrowly missed being your first follower!

26.11.2024 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The knife is a nice touch, has it "cut" the number of unwelcome interruptions?

26.11.2024 09:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Good to see one with a design slant! Could you add please?

25.11.2024 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When we were kids my brother bought a little set with an exciting battlefield image on the front that turned out to be just tiny plastic sandbags.

21.11.2024 12:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Johnnycab logo from the film, Total Recall (1990), including an orthographic rendering of one of the cabs.

Photo of a futuristic Texaco station from Back to the Future II.

Security card design for Cyberdyne Systems, from Terminator 2. (The article on this was particularly interesting, IMO)

Variations of the Weyland-Yutani 'wings' emblem from Alien.

Discovered a fantastic new site today that looks at brand identities from science fiction films. They do lovely graphic recreations and write fascinating analyses of these designs, from both in-universe and production perspectives.

www.speculativeidentities.com

09.11.2024 16:50 — 👍 178    🔁 72    💬 11    📌 9

Was looking at these... you'll have to let me know if it's all that

14.11.2024 12:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HCI researchers starter pack. Lets you follow a bunch of HCI people at once (which the HCI list didn't let you do).

Again, ask to be added if I missed you.
go.bsky.app/p3TLwt

13.11.2024 11:05 — 👍 31    🔁 11    💬 27    📌 1

Trying to put together an #HCI corner of Bluesky. I've just put together a feed that tracks HCI-related posts based on certain keywords. Still new and growing, but hoping it'll help us find each other here.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Let me know if you have any keyword suggestions!

08.11.2024 00:08 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Thy Peace I Rufus Wainwright, Asad Mecci · An Exploration of Hypnotic Sound · Song · 2024

Release Radar threw a bit of a curve ball at my morning commute, but maybe we all need a 17-minute hypnotic pep talk by Rufus Wainwright this week? open.spotify.com/track/1EzSr1...

08.11.2024 09:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0