Laying new foundations for smart homes

The fragile links between smart home gadgets just grew a little stronger

There’s a famous xkcd web-comic that shows a pile of building blocks precariously balancing on top of a single narrow brick. “All Modern Digital Infrastructure”, the pile is captioned – with the brick labelled “A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003”. The message, of course, is that our digital infrastructure is more precarious than we might think. And this is especially true in the hobbyist smart home space, with sometimes single GitHub pages holding the crucial code that will connect your smart plugs, blinds and bulbs to the rest of your devices. Unsurprisingly, this can make the smartest of homes feel like precarious places to be, especially when we’re talking about devices that may be mounted to the ceilings or embedded into the walls of our…

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