The jumper is on, it’s getting colder.

Spatie / Bloom – GitHub repository

Worktrees in parallel

Setup and startup scripts

Icons showing the states

Keep an eye on all projects

Open Source – free to use

Limitations – Herd app didn’t work due to hard coding

Devs fixed the issue

Agents able to now view their work and check it

Lots of alternatives, but this is being used by the company developing it so it should continue development

Spatie / Bloom – https://github.com/spatie/bloom

Apple News – September Announcements

iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max announced

I have been upgrading every 2 years, and so am looking at the 18 Pro

Look after the iPhone so you get a better trade in value

Trade in is safer than selling it privately

AirPods 5 and Apple Watch 12 and Ultra 4, plus the big reveal which looks interesting but not something I want to purchase at this time

Making sure you know is available and what they can do

Researching the upgrades to see what benefit I will get

Knowing if the upgrade will do what you want in the future

Software updates that give you new functionality

Checking software compatibility so you don’t have to downgrade

Know the capabilities of your existing and next gen hardware and software

I’ll let you know what I decide

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Getting Back To Normal

Christmas, Summer Holiday, Easter – normal schedules change

Everyone is now back and things are going back to normal

Available for Events for adults – https://www.pipkennedy.co.uk

Busy Bar now shows me shows that are happening that day

Lots of backups to make sure I don’t miss a show

Making Tax Digital is taking me more time than expected as I had to move to a new application

Matching transaction between accounts, has caused issues when re-importing

Do you have seasonal times like this?

Life Characters to personal website

Including pets, places and people

Adding tags so you can see interactions with these entities

Framework has been created nothing showing on the website yet

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We are back after the holiday break

Taylor’s personal website is now online

Rebuilding to make sure it doesn’t easily break like the previous versions

Keeping automations and syncing out of services like Make or another 3rd party

Scalability was important with this amount of data

Tracking sleep, food, flights, activities, notes, and loads more

Data is fascinating, and thats why tracking it is so interesting

It will never be complete it is a playground that will have things added to it continually

Web Mentions is something that could be added soon

Visit it at: https://taylordrayson.com

Search facility works really well – with and / or ability

Stories take data and make them into an interesting story

2500 days tracked so far

Solar Panels – looking into them

20 years ago it wasn’t as attractive as it is now

Louis from Discover Solar came round to speak with me – https://discoversolar.uk/

Battery technology has improved and are much more efficient now – powering your house overnight when there is no light

Fuel costs continue to rise, so now is a good time to look into this.

I went for a 16 panel, 11 kWh battery and a 6 kWh Inverter

Spoke to other companies but they quoted on the wrong house and the other asked for my annual usage and then they didn’t contact me back

Went with Louis as he answered all my questions, took time out of his day to come and see me, and I felt like I could trust him

They are all on the back roof so you don’t see them from the front – 25 years warranty on the panels and 10 years on the inverter and battery

Not getting credit on the electricity I am sending back yet

Should be a good investment in the long run

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Unified Calendar

When sharing a calendar with people it gets difficult to manage

When you have group activities there are duplicate entries

Creating a custom calendar that hides duplicate entries

Create different custom calendars as required

Writing notes in events could still be a challenge

Keeping event details in the diary where you would expect to find them

Concept is working – control panel coming

Home Assistant – Busy Bar

Creating notifications on the screen in case I miss the audio announcements

Writing apps for the device – not available yet – but will be great when it is

Making Instagram followers as an app

Dashboard is a real mess in Home Assistant – needs organising

Big job ahead of me

Decided on the look and style, just need to work out the layout now

Dark theme as a test

New people sensor to show who is home and who isn’t – added thumbnail images and coloured borders

Cards should grow when it is clickable

Layout and figuring out the way things are organised

Integration to show which bins are due

How is Taylor getting on with Home Assistant

Lots of decisions to be made to make it autonomous

Making it more informational rather than controls

Showing information when it is relevant

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Code Workflow

Touching the same files with different agents confuses things

Using worktrees and separate branches

Reviewing code to make sure they are as expected

Too many files to check easily

20 issues can be separate and open a new branch for each one, set up an agent and then merge

Paid vs Free GitHub Account

.env security

Busy Bar – https://busy.app/

Pomodoro Timer with a display

Developer toolkit

Connects to Matter and Wifi

Turn on Focus Mode on your mobile when you are busy

Have it show you when something has completed using Home Automation

If it makes your life better then the high cost may be worth it for you

Next meeting shown on the display

Mono screen on the back

We will report back

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A hot week

End of the school year shows

Zen Browser – https://zen-browser.app/

A calmer internet – reimagined ways to browse the internet

Left sidebar tabs – keeping your browsing area clean

Taylor didn’t like Chromium based browsers and this one uses the Firefox framework

Three different frameworks available – Chromium, Webkit and Mozilla

Browsers adopting newer technologies

Build your website based on the browser that your visitors are likely to be using

Panto auditions – I will be playing the part of Dame in January 2027

Before that I am in “Murder in the Mine” with ATG

Booked Solid OS has a new owner, right after I purchased it

Collect, triage and draft replies for emails

Non-birthday parties don’t currently have a follow up sequence so Booked Solid OS could deal with those

Communicating with regular customers, keep you in their mind for other events

If you don’t manage to book one year then they may get someone else and stick with them, losing an annual gig, which isn’t good

Make sure AI keeps on top of these

Nurturing relationships, check in on them

Keeping track of when you last spoke to each of them

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Another Hot Week

I created a song about the heat – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f7HVHCe88w&t=13s

Historical Data – backdating data for the new personal website

Finding data from the past – flights for example

Going through emails of the past for flight details

Also, Events, theatre shows, football matches, and other trips

Way Back Machine is good for some of these things

Piecing information together from many sources

Booked Solid – a service built on top of Claude for booking shows

Purchased so I can use it to find out what other users are charging, checking emails, Facebook and Messenger for enquiries

Answering them by creating replies

You tell it all about your business and it learns and grows

Desktop app taking over from terminal version

Early stages, and the price has jumped up from $297 to $2500 for lifetime use

AI to assist with bookings is an interesting use case. We will see where it goes

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New Tools purchased

Fanttik Slim V8 Apex Car Vacuum – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D8T3LTNN

Great for the car to get down the sides of the seats

Hose attachment great to get into the 3d printer

Can be used for keyboards and electronic devices

Fanttik F2 Master Mini Cordless Rotary Tool – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F3CPRZXW

Lots of attachments for drilling, sanding, polishing etc.

Perfect for post-processing 3d prints

Making what you do even better – improving all the time

Video of recent party which came out great

Updating promotional photos on a regular basis

Personal Website – next version

Decided on Laravel and Vue.js

Lots of syncing which can break the site very easily

Thinking about the structure better

Better analysis and stats in real time

Data Stories which are specific articles looking at the data

Tracking all the fuel costs for the car

Making data meaningful

Knowing what you want to achieve with the data

Seeing the changes over time and why the changes happened

Catch problems before they become a problem

Making a decision on how the data is presented and how you can search through it

Target Audience is Taylor – and no-one else

Adding redundancy with the imports to check everything is being brought in

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