About this episode

Michael and Jake discuss various topics including fitness tracking, home security upgrades, and their upcoming attendance at Laracon in Boston.

Michael and Jake catch up ahead of Laracon in Boston, beginning with Michael's increasingly complicated home extension. Jake shares a family trip to Cedar Point, then the conversation moves to how a Laravel Cloud weekend challenge inspired Michael to build Fitrack, a personal app for coordinating training around a single fitness goal. We then move on to home network and security upgrades, including a larger rack cabinet, a new NAS, locally accessible alarms and CCTV, Power over Ethernet cameras, Home Assistant, HomeKit, RTSP feeds, and using Claude to handle unfamiliar smart-home configuration. We also discuss Kitze hacking his NordicTrack treadmill and Michael’s experience connecting his own treadmill with Apple Fitness. Finally, Michael and Jake look ahead to Laracon, discuss conference merchandise and accommodation in Boston, and finish with a conversation about donuts, candy, and the lengths parents go to when quietly disposing of their children’s leftover sweets. Show links Cedar Point Laravel Cloud Taylor’s Laravel Cloud weekend shipping challenge Edwin’s Google Meet alternative Fitrack David Hemphill Home Assistant Aqara cameras Kitze's treadmill hack Caleb Porzio on code…

Topics covered

• wildfires
• fitness tracking
• home security
• Laravel
• technology
• conferences
• parenting

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