I’m using Philips hue wall switch modules. They’re not cheap, but they allow me to use the switch as a normal switch and even program them to turn on different scenes depending on how I use them. It’s so much nicer to have than the taped down light switch I had at first.

Woah, that is neat. Diagonal I would’ve thought of, but conic slicing is quite an ingenious idea.

Mostly just safety from yourself/your own little errors in input, but it can’t hurt for sure! Input sanitation is mostly relevant to fend off script kiddies. Relevant xkcd

Short story, haters gonna hate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Long story, see my comment to the commenter below you. :)

I can see why people might dislike them. Adds some bloat perhaps. But at the same time, I like the idea that my input is definitely sanitised since the ORM was written by people who know what they’re doing. That’s not to say it won’t have any vulnerabilities at all, but the chance of them existing is a lot lower than when I write the queries by hand. A lapse of judgement is all it takes. Even more relevant for beginning developers who might not be aware of such vulnerabilities existing.

Have a look at an ORM, if you are indeed executing plain SQL like I’m assuming from your comment. Sequelize might be nice to start with. What it does is create a layer between your application and your database. Using which, you can define the way a database object looks (like a class) and execute functions on that. For instance, if you’re creating a library, you could do book.update(), library.addBook(), etc. Since it adds a layer in between, it also helps you prevent common vulnerabilities such as SQL injection. This is because you aren’t writing the SQL queries in the first place. If you want to know more, let me know.

Be prepared to argue with people about how they don’t hear the difference in audio quality between TeamSpeak and Discord. Take it from me, TeamSpeak wins hands-down.

Signify is just the “new” name of what once was Philips Lighting. Not a new company or anything.

Really uncreative, but: $myInitials-desktop $myInitials-server $myInitials-laptop

With my username being…. $myInitials. Surprising, really. Boring, but consistent. :)

Sweet. The foundation is there. I hope they’ll soon add it for other languages as well. Being a native Dutch speaker, I hate using electronics in Dutch. Everything sounds so silly. So naturally, my phone is set to English (traditional). But now I can’t tell my phone to navigate me to a street with a Dutch street name without it having a stroke.