Odelic Connected Lighting

We are building a house, and I recently looked into smart lighting and light switches concluding that the best option for us was likely Panasonic’s Advance Series Link Plus, which later I did a deep-dive on. Then I took a look at Koizumi’s TRee system, and now to finish up my investigation into Japanese smart lighting systems, I will share what I learned about Odelic’s Connected Lighting.

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TRee: Koizumi's smart light system

We are building a house, and I recently looked into smart lighting and light switches concluding that the best option for us was likely Panasonic’s Advance Series Link Plus, which later I did a deep-dive on. Then we started looking at the actual lights to see what fits with our design, and found Panasonic’s offerings underwhelming. This made us look at other manufacturers, namely Koizumi and Odelic. They both have smart lights, so I will share what I learned about each, started with Koizumi.

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On investment risk

This is something that I have been trying to wrap my head around for a while: people say that the global stock market returns around 5% yearly (on top of inflation, based on the last 100 year), but it’s still risky and the risk is the volatility: the stock returns change a lot year over year, but on the long run they average out. But if the returns average out, then as long as I don’t check my portfolio daily and make bad decisions on short-term swings, I should be fine, right? If yes, then where is the risk? And in general how is volatility the same as risk?

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Testing the Panasonic Advance Series Link Plus smart light switches

We are building a house, and I recently looked into smart lighting and light switches concluding that the best option for us is likely Panasonic’s Advance Series Link Plus switches (アドバンスシリーズ リンクプラス). I got my hands on two of the switches and in this post I’ll share what I learned from testing them out.

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Fuzzing with Bazel: cc_fuzz_test

Recently I have been fuzzing C/C++ projects built with Bazel using libfuzzer, so I thought to share my learnings on some of the details on how to do this.

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