Mood Controller: Giving Your Home a Rhythm with Home Assistant

I have two young kids, a four-year-old and an eighteen-month-old. If you're a parent, you know that a home with small children is just chaos. Bedtime happens when it happens. If it does. Movie night interrupts everything. Someone wakes up at 5 AM, someone else sleeps until 7. The house needs to keep track.

When I first set up Home Assistant, I did what I suppose everyone does: I created scenes. Morning scene, evening scene, movie scene. And for a while, it felt like there might something there but they kept piling as I was discovering the family pattern. After a time to try and sequence the pattern I realized something, they are just bookmarks. If my wife and I decide to start bingeing until late in the night. The last thing I want after closing the tv is to have living room lighted all over again. So I needed a way to figure out how the living room could know that the house is now in night mode and so the living room should set its way back in night mode instead of evening (when the movie started).

Let's quit photography to build a typographic engine

It all started about 2 years ago went I decided to leave square space. My portfolio was fine, but it misses some edge. I was not sure how to put a finger on what was it that I didn't like. But it just felt it was not my website.

It has been 12 years that I was doing photography as a professional full time in my city. I was mostly doing adveertising and corporate. The business made me work with a lot of talented designer and I had the chance to work with what I would call taste. Not in the terms of beautfill, but in term of what work and what dont generally speaking. Art might be seen as some sort of black magic only for talented people but actually, most of the talented persone follow simple yet powerfull rules that works. Think about the golden rules, the thrid grid, composition rules. Those rules that we like to say are made to be broken. Well I dont know about that. I still feel they are not followed enough. And most of the time, broking the rules is just a hidden way of saying I dont get the rules so I just decided to do what I want. I dont have or a least, I know when to brake the rules.

Le premier porte-à-porte

Le premier vrai porte-à-porte dans le quartier, accompagné de Jacky Smith

Ma Forêt

Au fil des années, j'ai tout essayé pour partager mes idées. Les blogues, avec leur fil chronologique rigide. Les réseaux sociaux, avec leur course aux likes et leur contenu éphémère. Chaque fois, je frappe le même mur : l'impression de devoir présenter une pensée finie, polie, parfaite. Je me sens comme un photographe forcé de n'exposer que du final, alors que la vraie richesse se trouve souvent dans le processus et l’exploration. Je me sens juger sur l’attente « d’impressionner » plutôt que sur la réflexion.

Ma Forêt Numérique

Une quoi?

Au fil des années, j'ai tout essayé pour partager mes idées. Les blogues, avec leur fil chronologique rigide. Les réseaux sociaux, avec leur course aux likes et leur contenu éphémère. Chaque fois, je frappe le même mur : l'impression de devoir présenter une pensée finie, polie, parfaite. Je me sens comme un photographe forcé de n'exposer que du final, alors que la vraie richesse se trouve souvent dans le processus et l’exploration. Je me sens juger sur l’attente « d’impressionner » plutôt que sur la réflexion.

Ma platforme

cette note sert à expliquer dans mes mots mon processus créatifs avec mon site ainsi que les détails technique, mais la com du concept ce fais ici Beacon/Le digital Garden/Manifeste c’est une explication dans mes mots de mon site - [ ] penser au différents alias qui correspond à des termes de site standard à ajouter aux pages - [ ] Ajouter commentaire de mon stack? - [ ] Change philosophical to reflexion - [ ] Change manifeste pour manifesto