Alexa

Work (the kind I get paid for) carried me far and away from my family for 5 weeks recently. It was supposed to be maximum 3, but that’s another story. I was especially

A while ago I bought a Kindle Fire 8 Kids edition for my daughter and of course it had Alexa bundled in. While the Kindle Freetime didn’t really work outside of the US

Quindecim. A game idea I have for my Alexa-powered smart speakers. It’s essentially a number matching and memory game with a maximum of fifteen numbers. The aim of the game is to descramble

With all the Alexa work I have planned, I decided to create a project called Argyle, named from Tobago’s largest waterfall. I had looked at Laravel and Phalcon but I got the white-screen-of-nothing

The nice thing about having lots of smart plugs and bulbs connected to Alexa is the convenience of yelling at your devices to turn on and off. While you can schedule devices to

One day, maybe, far into the future, tech giants would work together to provide the best set of services for everyone. Or maybe we’ll have to hack together that future ourselves. Between Google

Food. When you’re hungry, there’s nothing like it, but when you’re not you want to save it for later. Given how many people in the world don’t know where their next meal is

I’ve tricked out the house with Alexa compatible gadgets, a bunch of plugs, a whole set of bulbs and three echo dots in three different rooms. I was watching The First and there