Fun with lights

Following the decline and unplugging of the Sengled hub, the IFTTT integrations I'd been using for weather and rough Twitter monitoring went down.

I use the strip light under the mantlepiece to tell me things about the weather (too hot, too damp, overnight freeze, SNOW!!, and now a caution about the UV index which doubles as a prompt to go outdoors under the appropriate amount of muffling fabrics and enjoy the sunshine) and the lamp next to my desk to tell me whether I've tweeted more recently (white) or whether someone has tweeted at me more recently (blue). The twitter alert is largely for times when I'm doing something else and not looking at my phone/that part of my phone, so I have information about whether I should go and look at it.

Belovedest did some stuff with the fireplace strip, which has been fun, and recently reminded me that I should get an API key so they can work with my deskside lamp. So the other day I did! (The category I applied for was the one that's figuring out the API, because that covers what I need for personal use here.)

After a little trial and error, I am pleased to report that the light next to my desk lights up white and blue pretty much the same way it used to. IFTTT had a delay of up to fifteen minutes; this has a delay of up to 5.

Poetry exercise: I am from

... in the workplace, including at least two significant traumas, after the poem "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon.


I am from the supply closet
fine-tipped pens and highlighters
I am from the IKEA bag under the desk
stuffed with post-its and painter's tape
I am from the spreadsheet
untitled.xls, untitled(1), untitled(4)final
untitled(4)final_really_truly

I am from the telephone
from your dinnertime
from my nighttime
answering your computer questions.

I am from the five thousand
separate
CSS
sheets
one for each page
one for each endpoint
in the helpdesk software

I am from the wiki
Going to the wiki
Coming from the wiki

I am User:Alunatic/Office
still used ten years later
full of useful links
holding up where the helpdesk crumbles
into little grains
of nonthinking sand

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Context: someone in 2019 thought that writing a poem about your background including things that make you cry a little when you dig up the memories, was an appropriate workplace bonding activity to then be read aloud at a meeting. The internet was not kind. https://agonyaunt.dreamwidth.org/502747.html