Um a lot of US zip codes map to multiple cities. Some even to multiple states. If you build a picker for city/state this works fine but your premise is easily refuted if you look at the data!

Zip codes map to postal routes, not polygons

I had kept my Plus subscription just because I was lazy, and it was inexpensive and convenient… but this turn definitely helped me get off the fence. I am exporting and deleting my data now, and the cancellation is already done.

For anyone reading this later, I got my data export and deleted my account and got a pro-rated refund. So double whammy!

I feel like excluding French toast is a serious faux pas here!

Breakfast burritos are also at least as important as quiche (as in, neither are as tasty without addins - just like omelettes).

Agreed, he’s added criteria for excluding French toast to fit his narrative. Gaslighting the world away from us French toast lovers.

And don’t get me started on breakfast burritos, top 10 food that’s just ridiculous if you’re ordering it after 3pm?

FYI this is not true in the US. Zip codes identify postal routes not locations

I’m building an ETL tool that “just works” and gets out of the way. I can write shell scripts and python to do this stuff but honestly I just want to drop my files/API results into a GUI tool and have it combine things for me. Landing page is at https://eetle.com

Yes I was very excited to see the new json encoding changes land, can’t wait to try them out! The new omitempty and map key marshalling in particular will help clean up some of my ugly code.

Dropping the kids off at the pool is a euphemism for a bodily function that diuretics like coffee help with…

The other one.

Probably gets pretty costly if you’re running a lot of data through it. Now if you could implement a Tailscale DERP server in a lambda that would be pretty amazing: https://tailscale.com/kb/1232/derp-servers

I did toy around with Tailscale initially trying to get it to spin up as an exit node but wasn't able to get that functional. I did manage to get Tailscale Funnel to work as the tunnel mechanism to Lambda, but unfortunately the performance was really poor.

Given the redundancy of multiple locations, I think even cutting power it would be difficult to cause an extended outage.

I have a variety of Shelly 1 devices in my house, one of which is on the oldschool Garage Door opener (with a reed switch for open/close tracking) - Very inexpensive, flexible for other applications, and works with HA etc.

https://us.shelly.com/products/shelly-1-gen3

The Shelly Uni is the correct device to use for these applications:

https://shelly.digital/product/shelly-uni/

It can be powered by 12-24V DC or AC, so you can power it off the accessory wiring of the device. It has two relays to control two different actions (my gate has a secondary partial open mode, to walk through it without opening all the way), and has two digital inputs to monitor state of the device (my gate exposes an "is open" and "is closed" state).

The setup in the app is a bit confusing though. Well the app seems like it was designed by a Unix neckbeard, but it is very powerful - I haven't needed to switch to MQTT/Home Assistant to do the automations I want.

My devices can be triggered by a momentary switch: press and release to open, press and release again to close. The app has a "Momentary" switch type, but that did not work for me. I had to use "Toggle Switch" then set a auto off timer for 0.1 seconds.

Huge fan of shelly. I wrote a little sinatra web-server that can just show the current state, and toggle the state, of a bunch of lights around my yard. I really appreciate that all you need is http, no cloud, no fuss to just put together a custom ui for them. Couldn't recommend them more highly