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I’m just not good at keeping a diary of my life. In a way, it’s a weird dilemma as I have a tons of things to share because I’ve been working on so many interesting projects lately and yet it’s precisely why I can’t find the time to post about it... Who cares really? I much prefer this than the other way round!

I'm passionate about the web and I can't help but always look at a website or an app with a "professional" prospective. I'm fascinated by details and brilliant features that you can barely notice, sometimes so subtle but efficient than it amazes me. So I've decided to share the most interesting things I've found in a new column of this blog called "Awesome features". It will consists of tiny case studies about very specific features and details I've noticed here and there.

"Devil is in the details"

Last winter I was working on a DIY home security system using a Raspberry PI with the camera module and a PIR sensor. But I didn't have much time to work on it and could go much further than a basic frame by frame webcam. I had made all the plans but not enough time to implement it...

In the meantime, the "Internet of things" has exploded and dozens of Kickstarter/IndieGogo projects have joined the movement to provide all kind of home connected objects. Of course, the security aspect of the home automation is being quite covered by great projects like Canary, Sentri and my favorite one, Piper.

And it was amazing :)

I had the chance to attend the summit with my company TheBeautyst.com as part of their Alpha program. So we had a booth for a day, access to the conferences and invitations to various events in Dublin.

I attends quite a lot of events around the Internet of things, wearables and connected objects as I'm very interested in those at the moment. I also had the chance to attend a party at Google HQ which was brilliant and I met a lot of interesting people. In overall, I loved the events because it gave me a lot of motivation to see all those inspiring people talking about what they build or were building.

"Mondays are grand, you just hate your job" - Seen in Dublin during WebSummit 2014

It's been a while since I've posted here but who cares really :)

So lately I've been very interested in the massive movement of connected objects, wearbales and Internet of things in the startup world. I've been tinkering for a couple of years now with Raspberry Pis, Z-Wave controllers, etc. but it feels like now there's a lot more fascinating projects going on, especially on Kickstart.

After attending a great session about wearables at Web Summit 2014, I've decided to invest in a Pebble watch to start working on some DIY/Wearables/Home automation project on my own.

This beautiful pebble on the right is joining my casio calculator watches :)

I went for the Pebble because I like that's a bit retro with a low-res screen and mostly because you don't have to charge it every night thanks to that! I also appreciated that they have a good Javascript SDK to start writing apps for the watch very quickly. And honestly their pixel art website is one of the most beautiful I've seen lately. 

Eric Ries

I updated the right bar of this website a little bit which I wanted to do for a long time.

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