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My Lights Run on Bash

My Lights Run on Bash Among the many hobbies that modern nerds pick up, one has recently become incredibly popular: making everything in your house dangerously unreliable by inserting a bunch of software where previously simple wires had sufficed. In this post, I describe how I replaced the wires between my lights and my light switches with some Bash. Bash as critical infrastructure? Am I alright? Do I need to see a psychiatrist? These are all good questions, but let's leave them for another p

My Lights Run on Bash – Tomasz Kramkowski

My Lights Run on Bash Among the many hobbies that modern nerds pick up, one has recently become incredibly popular: making everything in your house dangerously unreliable by inserting a bunch of software where previously simple wires had sufficed. In this post, I describe how I replaced the wires between my lights and my light switches with some Bash. Bash as critical infrastructure? Am I alright? Do I need to see a psychiatrist? These are all good questions, but let's leave them for another p

Touring the Zig-EM code-scape (2024)

Touring the Zig•EM code-scape The next few blog posts will explore the Zig•EM programming framework in ever-greater detail – starting with instructions for installing the latest software version, and then moving on to a 10,000' overview that touches upon some core concepts and constructs of Zig•EM. Updating your installation The process for (initially) installing and (subsequently) updating your local version of Zig•EM boils down to three basic steps: install Zig clone zigem-dev execute zi