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Neat but this is underwhelming considering who it is with his resources. I've seen dozens of setups like this from random nobody developers over the past 10 yea
by dickbasedregex 10y ago
Neat but this is underwhelming considering who it is with his resources. I've seen dozens of setups like this from random nobody developers over the past 10 years or so.
One-off home brew projects like this are neat but until someone creates and releases a good, extensible foundation to build on top of, meh... And even then it would probably be terrible because they would try to spin it into some business effort (which hackers will avoid b/c they don't want to be glued to someone else's product) instead of an earnest open source effort.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoThis was never intended to be a Facebook project, it was a personal project for him. And arguably, the amount he accomplished is pretty incredible for the timeframe considering everything else he was doing. Sure, he has the money to pay people to do it for him, but it was as much a learning experience as anything else. I've been working on a system for my home as well, and my goal is to implement as much code myself as possible, rather than relying on external libraries, mostly so that I can learn more about how those things work.
- deadbunny 10y agoCheck out Home Assistant [1], exactly what you're describing. http://home-assistant.io http://home-assistant.io