heavygweit

i'm in a buy buy buy spend spend spend mood

stop me :)

okay in true erica fashion i have curated my material desires into 4 categories:

1. make my home a smart home
2. build my own propagation station with cute little jars and some nice sticks
3. vintage vests (or waistcoats), especially ones with fringe 
4. beef up my wfh setup with either an under desk treadmill, 360 swivel balance board, or mini trampoline

tbd

Homelabs

random facts and life excerpts. vulnerability is strength ✨🌈 building /uno, design & dev

If you ever wanna go down a rabbit hole on smart homes a la self-run services, peep /homelabs!

I worked on the Google Smart Display team and have quite a soft spot for smart home stuff, as well as some opinions should you ever want things to pickup or avoid!

father, husband, css golfer, ux engineer, silently defining variables as /sdv sdv.wtf

ooh i was gonna go for alexa but i'm keen to hear your take on what options are the best

i eventually want to be able to customize everything and have it all be both voice and remote (or app) controlled. blinds/curtains, lights, watering system for plants, etc

the house we bought prior to moving to nyc came fully kitted with smart devices from the previous owners, we had 15-20 different services hooked up and were running on alexa. pretty happy with it, has a huge variety of affordable device options available which I don’t think is the case with some of the other ecosystems

likes building things • https://alexgrover.me/links

Most things weren’t “automated” tbh, just connected to alexa so you can use voice control. Lights by far the most used, but we also had speakers/cameras/hot tub integrated

One cool one, our AC was set up with an Ecobee thermostat and vent covers from flair.co that allow you to set the temp in each room separately for more efficient AC. So you can have only your bedroom vent open at night for example

what was your top service that you loved having automated?? 

(I didn’t even know there were 15-20 to be automated lol)