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James Ridgway
Personal blog · jamesridgway.co.ukhardwareproductivity
James Ridgway's personal blog at jamesridgway.co.uk covers hardware and productivity. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Making traditional light switches smart”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A post on making traditional light switches smart. One commenter calls the submission an advertorial and notes the author now runs an online smart home device shop.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
James Ridgway - Software Engineer
Most-linked posts?
- Making traditional light switches smart2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-02
What Hacker News says?
Note - Updated May 2022: Since writing this blog post I have setup Smart Home Shop UK, an online retailer for Smart Home Devices specialising in the Shelly device range This submission just seems like an advertorial to me. YMMV (from https://www.jamesridgway.co.uk/making-traditional-light-swit... )
Comment linking /making-traditional-light-switches-smart/
on “Making traditional light switches smart”Submitted Making traditional light switches smart as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSubmitted Energy Monitoring with Shelly EM and Home Assistant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing Dotfiles with Test Kitchen and InSpec as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surviving a Power Cut – Home Automation Resilience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ensuite Automations – Using Home Assistant to Perfect My Morning Routine as a story · 1 points
HN discussion