Oscar Medina

me.

[Harman @itsharmanjot]

GOOGLE, AMAZON, AND APPLE SPENT A DECADE CONVINCING YOU YOUR SMART HOME NEEDS THEIR CLOUD.

One guy in Norway just shipped 253 commits proving they were lying.

His name is Lasse Lian. The project is called Prism Desktop. It's a native Windows and Linux client for Home Assistant that runs entirely on your local network.

No Google account. No Amazon login. No Apple ID. No cloud relay. No subscription tier hiding behind a "Pro" badge.

Closed smart home vs Prism Desktop:

- Account required: Yes → No
- Voice data stored: On their servers → Never leaves your house
- Works without internet: No → Yes
- Costs: $99 hub + $5/month video storage → $0
- Source: Closed → MIT licensed, 253 commits public
- Vendor lock-in: Total → None

The whole app talks to Home Assistant over its WebSocket API. Your lights, your thermostats, your cameras, your locks. None of it touches a corporate server.

→ Drag and drop dashboard you actually own
→ Global keyboard shortcuts to any entity
→ PC notifications from your local automations
→ Real-time state sync without polling
→ Border effects, custom colors, the petty stuff matters

Here's the wildest part:

He shipped the first release on February 1, 2026. He's now on version 1.5.3, four months later. Solo developer. 14 releases. 160 stars and climbing.

The trillion-dollar smart home industry needed a decade and never built this.

One honest note: you need a Home Assistant instance on your network. This is the client. Setting up HA itself is the part that scares people, and it shouldn't.

100% Open Source. MIT License.

Link in the first comment.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

A new device writes homework by hand for students.

The arms race between teachers and lazy geniuses continues.

[slash1s @slash1sol]

A LINUX KERNEL DEVELOPER PROVED THE THING YOU PUSH CODE TO IS SECRETLY A DATABASE THAT CAN VERSION ALMOST ANYTHING AND THAT MOST DEVS HAVE ONLY EVER TOUCHED A TENTH OF IT

42 minutes from Josh Triplett -- a longtime Linux kernel and Debian developer -- showing that Git is a general-purpose, tamper-evident versioning engine that just happens to be famous for code.

-> The moment it clicks, Git stops being "Where my code lives" and becomes what it really is underneath: a content-addressable store that can version almost anything -- your configs, your notes, your servers' state, entire datasets.

People run whole wikis on it. They version their entire machine's configuration with it. They ship websites by pushing to it. They track data too big to email. None of it is a hack -- it's the same handful of objects you already use for code, pointed somewhere new.

Treating Git as a code-only tool was never the ceiling -> it's a versioning engine for anything, and the people who see that automate what the rest of the team still does by hand. And as AI agents start spitting out not just code but configs, docs and data, the one system that can version and audit all of it at once is already sitting on your machine.

You learned five commands to survive. This is the talk that shows you were standing on top of a database the whole time.

It changes what you think the tool is even for.

Bookmark & Watch it today ↓

[eliza ˙⋆✮ @enchantedflms]

bold of u to assume i ever stopped calling it twitter

[Oscar Medina @DevOpsOscar]

hahahahahahaha

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal.

Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI:

https://t.co/PvRm8u0MV7

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

We've reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users on Pro and Max plans.

We fixed an issue that caused some Claude Code sessions to spawn excessive parallel subagents, burning through usage faster than expected.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A giant majestic bison walking calmly down the road.

[Oscar Medina @DevOpsOscar]

@oopmouth11 @lmkifiwin Some actors/actresses should actually just retire too. Make way for new talent, and stop gatekeeping!

[Sarahh @Sarahhuniverse]

True

© faizan_art_studio

[Alan West @mypoliticalx]

One of the major American car manufacturers should produce a vehicle that has basically no technology or computers. Just mostly mechanical and easy to work on. Make them inexpensive and gas efficient. I bet they would sell like hotcakes.

[Oscar Medina @DevOpsOscar]

Opus 4.8 workflows are 🔥🔥🔥

I just delegated a complex bug and it delivered, of course I have to trust but verify haha #claude @ClaudeDevs

[Oscar Medina @DevOpsOscar]

@EmilySm43 I’ll probably say hi and then quickly say bye and go have a meal with some sort

[Oscar Medina @DevOpsOscar]

I am building a workshop to showcase agentic runtime security with Vault+IBM Verify. I have a fictitious banking app I tweaked, and have chosen Oscar Goldman and Jamie Sommers as the 2 key users. @ClaudeDevs figured it out! 🔥🔥🔥
#Developers #Dev #HashiCorp #IBMVerify

[QUANTUM GUARD ™️ @QuantumGuard17]

🚨 BREAKING — IT'S OFFICIAL: Former FedEx driver Tanner Horner who killed 7-year-old girl Athena Strand sentenced to CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, he will finally be executed for his brutal crimes against her

GOOD RIDDANCE, scum. This is massively overdue.

Justice is served 🙏🏻

But the family can never re-gain what they lost.

[Oscar Medina @DevOpsOscar]

https://t.co/p0K7c6v8rN

[Oscar Medina @DevOpsOscar]

#newprofilepic in honor of the various bodybuilding events happening now. Yes this is me unfiltered.

[Sahil @sahill_og]

"CLAUDE I ALREADY ASKED YOU 4 TIMES AND YOU KEEP GETTING IT WRONG, THINK LIKE A SOFTWARE ENGINEER WITH 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND FIX THIS BUG, MAKE NO MISTAKES"

[Oscar Medina @DevOpsOscar]

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[Oscar Medina @DevOpsOscar]

@samy2732 @spencertbarber This is how my financial advisor describes things yep