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It looks like you are using an ad blocker

How to remove stupid “It looks like you’’re using an ad blocker” message from websites, and why they’re a stupid idea in the first place.

September Solar Usage

Here’s how my solar panels and battery system have been performing this month. I might do this more frequently, it’s hard going back in the historical data in my monitoring software and these posts are easy to find.

Solar battery usage

It’s a crappy cloudy day today. There was about enough sunlight to power the house, but not enough to also charge the batteries.

Repairing my Ryobi drill battery

So I joined the Ryobi battery cult, but since their batteries are expensive I did the obvious thing and bought some off Amazon from random third party companies. The batteries seem to work well.

Federated Madness

You know this Mastodon thing everyone’s going apeshit over? Well it runs on a technology called ActivityPub which is something everything needs to support. It implements social media style following and so on using a protocol that anyone can use.

Gamedev, music, art and being creative

I am not a creative person, and I’d quite like to change this. There’s a bunch of creative skills I’ve never put the effort into improving and I think I might have some ways to overcome this. Let’s have a look…

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