It’s less about controlling things but more about being able to ask them questions and query information.

It’s main function is so I can ask it about the weather. But I wish more things in my house could talk to it.

I got a Google Home mini for Christmas and have been asking all sorts of random questions.

If you have a Comcast/Xfinity set top box you can earn some money by taking a picture of it worker.mturk.com/requesters/A16T…

Asleep by the tree waiting for Santa. Vera is all tuckered out on her first Christmas instagram.com/p/BdHM4Svlzbv/

Got the nearly 3 year old her own iPad for Christmas and holy hell Apple sucks at on boarding. So passcodes, iCloud passwords, some iCloud pin that I have no idea what it is, legalese, slow. I thought they were good at this.

iknowwhatyoudownload.com

Web development is hard. twitter.com/ricoviq/status/94282…

Finished watching The Crown last night. So listening to Oasis today.

pure gold tweets.kingkool68.com/2006/12/

#MyTwitterAnniversary twitter.com/kingkool68/status/10…

Snow angel.

#VeraAddison #itssnowing instagram.com/p/BcfuZqGFZwy/

Not much of a Santa fan today. 🎅😢 #VeraAddison #santa #santafail instagram.com/p/BcfsO_elE48/

“Daddy I like this couch”

#ZadieAlyssa instagram.com/p/BcfrmSTlhqo/

On one hand…

ma.ttias.be/chrome-force-dev-dom…
Screw you Chrome. Forcing .dev domains to be HTTPS sucks and breaks all my local sites.

On the other hand…

deliciousbrains.com/ssl-certific…
I learned how to self-sign SSL certs and become my own authority and sysadmin stuff

Disappointed the top chess engine isn’t Chestmaster 9000 twitter.com/bramcohen/status/938…

Comment in /r/bitcoin/…

“What a crazy year this hour has been!”

All I want for Christmas is…
1948: my two front teeth
1983: Cabbage patch kids
1996: Tickle Me Elmo
2008: Nintendo Wii
2017: Bitcoin

Alright let’s do some local development…

Ah crap. Chrome updated and now all .dev domains automatically redirect to https and that wasn’t set up right and now everything is broken. I quit.