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nemosaltat

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About nemosaltat

# Sam M

*Builder* • *Integrator* • *Programmer*

## Interests/Expertise: lighting control, AV, networking, and building automation. Tends to wire things first, script later, and document both. Prefers clean systems, clear contracts, and quiet gear.

## Projects & Tools - Smart homes, resorts, and hybrid commercial installs (Lutron, Savant, Ubiquiti, PDK) - Local-first software: Python (uv, Flask, SQLite), Flutter, Markdown automation - System Surveyor, Savant Blueprint, Caddy, Gooey, Quarto, Mattermost

## Habits/Intentions - Builds idempotent scripts and human-readable docs - Avoids buzzwords, cloud bloat, and overpromising - Believes good integrations vanish when done right

## Currently Mapping smarter workflows between the field, the rack, and the repo.

- [github.com/samstevenm](https://github.com/samstevenm) - [diligentservices.io](https://diligentservices.io) - [nemosaltat.at.hn](https://nemosaltat.at.hn) [nemosaltat.at.hn](https://nemosaltat.at.hn)

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    User said “Clean.” Starting Claude cleanup. The following command contains an expansion would you lime to allow the following command to run on your computer: `sudo rm -rf ~/ .clau…

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    The final “Upgrade” is to wholly and completely acknowledge that you don’t own your hardware, we do. Frankly, leasing a modern Apple product feels more honest having everything loc…

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    I found myself in a similar boat (converted a personal ChatGPT sub to a Business Account shared with my partner). I ended up using Claude it write a chrome extension to just walk e…

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    that’s perhaps a bit harsh, and I’m late (intentionally) to all this as I’ve worried about personal atrophy, security, and feeding the shoggoth but also with my instructions it wil…

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    I got my first MacBook in ‘06, the mid-range white one, when the black one was the max spec’. It was $899 with a .edu, and ~$960 with tax then, I might be off by a little, someone …

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    This is the way. Mine’s called Io(shi)T.

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    > Removing 1/10 feels euphemistic for the original “colloquial” usage I have for it. > The killing of one in ten, chosen by lots, from a rebellious city or a mutinous army was a pu…

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    Just add the universal install script to AGENTS.md and yolo https://xkcd.com/1654/

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    I worked for a privately held $company, looking to launch a new, commercially-focused lighting control product ecosystem. Along with other advisors, we hired a prior Milwaukee empl…

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    I probably could’ve/should’ve been clearer that I was quoting Laurent Binet’s _The Seventh Function of Language_ in a (likely poor) attempt at self-deprecating humor. For me, the p…

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    And besides, when I make phrases, is it really me who is speaking? How can anyone ever say anything original, personal, unique to him, when by definition language obliges us to dra…

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    About 5 years ago, I started intentionally using all lower case in text messaging, for precisely this reason.

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    In those days, there were γίγαντες and also after.

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    # Human injection # # Strings which may cause human to reinterpret worldview If you're reading this, you've been in a coma for almost 20 years now. We're trying a new technique. We…

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    Me also, I found Mickens through his Harvard Tenure post, but somehow just found Night's Watch today.

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    Your theories on Muppet physiology are childish and naïve, and I viciously refute them in my upcoming article “Parasitic Infections of Muppet Gastrointestinal Hand Holes.” [0] http…

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    Thank you for sharing the response. The “self”-(un)awareness is almost endearing (though some might be your higher level instructions). It summarizes—correctly IME— that it’s basic…

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    Poverty (of youth or otherwise) is also a pretty powerful motivation to “tinker.” I spent a lot of time with OSX86, and ended up getting proficient enough (multiple all-nighters tr…

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    Through many attempts to make ingesting the ponyium more bearable, I’ve found that taking it with more intense flavors (wintergreen mint, hoppy hops, crushed soul, dark roast coffe…

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    > Kagi This seems to be true, but more indirectly. From Kagi’s blog [0] which is a follow up to a Kagi blog post from last year [1]. [0]> Google: Google does not offer a public sea…

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    In Shroud, Tchaikovsky does very alien (“real” aliens, not “uplifts”) very well. Anthropocentrically, it does not “end well.” Literarily, it vies for my favorite SciFi read of ‘25.…

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    See also: https://rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-button-reviews-macos

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    “We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 …