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2022 Review

Let’s briefly look back at last year and see what things were like, then look forward to the coming year and what I want to achieve. I did this last year too, and I’ve just been reading that.

SO my network broke…

But this is not a post about that, that post was great, it was long and descriptive and kind of amusing to read. And then I deleted it by accident due to some questionable UI choices in WordPress and the wonky trackpad on my tablet.

Did you know WordPress will permanently delete posts without prompting. Hit that “delete permanently” button and it’s gone. Not even Windows is that mean. My mouse pointer was a pixel into the hitbox for “Delete permanently” and I was trying to hit “restore”. And it went.

So How Long Do HDDs Last Anyway

I feel like over the past year I’ve swapped more broken drives from my NAS than any other bit of gear I own. So seeing how it’s the end of the year, let’s poke around and see how long the drives in my NAS have actually lasted.

Home Assistant Solar Monitoring

I think I’ve managed to make Home assistant tell me how much money the solar power I’m generating would be worth from the grid, and how much running things off solar/battery instead of the grid is saving me.

Workshed Tidying

My workshed is mess, I can barely get into it and I have a bunch of projects that need starting. Let’s fix that…

MS Powertoys Remap Keyboard

I’ve got an IBM Model M keyboard and like using it on my PC, but one of its problems is the lack of Windows keys. There’s a bunch of keyboard shortcuts I use almost daily and not having a Windows key makes it annoying. Here’s how I fixed it…

DIY Home Solar Finished

After a week of testing and tweaking, my DIY solar shed upgrade is complete. And it seems to work pretty well!

Last week I bought a solar panel, inverter and some lead acid batteries and set up a solar system in my shed, with the intention of powering my servers. It seems to work pretty well and I have it all integrated into Home Assistant. I’m going to do a load of videos on it and Home Assistant in general.

Who Debugs the Debuggers

What do you do when you’re trying to debug code, but your debugging isn’t working, and you need to debug your debugger?

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