The One Second Dash

Your comment reminds of me the time my friend wanted to build something with a half-duplex radio, and rather than figure out how to get the crappy Arduino library to switch from receive to transmit, they wrote the message & a flag to the EEPROM, overflowed the watchdog timer, and (upon reading the flag after reset) brought the radio up in transmit mode.

So many of my projects start off with "what's the simplest thing that could possibly work." (Most of them stay there.)

I understand the sentiment but for this blog in particular, I think the content excuses the layout.

I have been using fish as my primary shell for a while and it is pretty good. The development pace is pretty good, happens on Github, bugs are fixed pretty quickly and PRs merged in ASAP. I do recommend having a POSIX compliant shell installed alongside for when it is needed. The interactive shell experience with fish is amazing though.

This is still a significant security improvement over the usual IoT situation, which would generally permit anybody in the world to ring your doorbell.

Not everybody does the same thing as everybody else.

that article sounds like the button would have lasted longer if he'd had fish's project. i.e. the button didn't last because his kid multi-pressed because the feedback was not fast enough.