Hi there! I’m Matt Colyer, a entrepreneur and technical product leader based in Redwood City, CA.

Computing like a Human

For the first 50 years of computing, we adopted the interfaces of computers. First, it was the punch card: Then it was assembly code: Next came compute...

One Weird Trick for OpenAI o1

One Weird Trick for OpenAI o1 OpenAI o1 is like having your own graduate-level research assistant. It can handle complex reasoning tasks and break them down...

Reverse Engineering the Anova Precision Oven

I recently got an Anova Precision Oven, which I love. But what would make it even better is if I could control it from Home Assistant. Let’s dive in! While ...

Why is Tesla FSD afraid of the dark?

I’ve been lucky enough to have access to the FSD beta for a number of months. At first everything worked great but eventually I noticed that I was no longer ...

Getting an MJPEG stream from ADT CCTV cameras

It turns out that the previous owner of our house had several ADT NV214A video encoders installed to digitize the CCTV system. At first, I thought they’d end...

SmarterMeter v0.4.0 Released

This is a pretty major update as two significant things have changed relating to SmarterMeter. First Google PowerMeter no longer exists, therefore SmarterMet...