indigo hartsell

14:33 it’s valentines day! i’m updating my about page to reflect recent changes

15:09 I want to put more content on this website. Let’s flesh out Ada. 19:37 Add Reading List

Teleology After 5+ years of using Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant, I was left unsatisfied. Alexa is annoying at best. Google is constantly removing features from their Assistant. Enter Home Assistant - with its built-in Assist platform, I set out to create a custom, local voice assistant. It is worth noting that HASS announced this year that they are working on their own local/cloud-integrated LLM system. I decided to do this project long before that was announced. ...

work in progress

Since I’m getting more into reading these days, I thought it might be interesting to share my reading list. in progress cover title rating link to review Fuzzy Logic n/a n/a completed | cover | title | rating | link to review | upcoming | cover | title | rating | link to review |

21:06 Installed #Interstitial Journaling plugin 21:08 Just had an idea - let’s write about Home Assistant and Ada

overview Home Assistant is essentially a home automation platform designed to be both accessible to users and powerful for enthusiasts. It is hosted on local hardware using software created by Nabu Casa (who also maintain ESPHome, a project I fully intend to utilize in the future). Home Assistant boasts a dedicated enterprise community that have developed a robust ecosystem of hardware and software compatible with Home Assistant right out of the box. Furthermore, through the Home Assistant Community Store (colloquially HACS), users can install and run custom integrations, add-ons, and UI components created and maintained by Home Assistant’s passionate user community. ...

06:14 Write more about Cultivating Knowledge Through Digital Gardenss What is a knowledge garden? Zettelkassen 08:10 I also want to add a page with my contact info and socials. Kind of like a linktree but on my domain and hosted on this site. 10:38 need to edit Hugo theme so that todo items render correctly

If a note is not published, does it really exist? - Erwin Schrödinger* spores The phrase “digital garden” is more of an analogy than a descriptive literal. Just as a mushroom garden flourishes from tiny spores into a complex network, a digital garden nurtures small ideas into a rich, interconnected ecosystem of knowledge. Digital gardens are living entities, constantly evolving as they harbor works in progress, nascent ideas, and fleeting thoughts that, over time, grow and intertwine into a robust network of knowledge. Each note in a digital garden starts small. Over time, as the user researches, learns, and grows, they can apply that learning to the note. Through cycles of addition and refinement, these small notes grow into a network of interwoven thoughts and ideas, providing structure and meaning to an otherwise scattered and messy collection of ideas. ...

09:12 I need to refactor the code for this website and improve the content. There’s not really anything worth reading on it at the moment and I want to change that. I have lots of ideas, but every time I sit down to write at my computer I don’t feel motivated to make content. How can I fix that? Change name from archive to something else Rewrite description block Add images ...