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18 Jun 18:09 • Mark

WordPress, Django, Indieweb, and the Homebrew Website Club

This blog has been up for quite a while now. It still looks clean and minimalist to me, but it definitely isn't sleek at all. That's okay, I'm not an artist and this is a personal blog. I don't have to sell anything or pretend. A few months ago, one of my bands decided that...

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28 Dec 19:53 • Mark

Playing Roborally with your friends over the internet

Yesterday, I've revived my blog, because I had revived one of the projects that I originally wanted to share when I launched this blog seven years ago. But this hasn't been the only project that I wanted to open source but never found the time to clean it up at least so far ...

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27 Dec 08:42 • Mark

Seven years later

It's been seven years that this blog exists - but it just sat there while I was busy. A relationship broke, others came and went, some came back ... but the Arduino fix for the fridge still works at my wife's place. That's been much more sustainable than expected! As I'm hea...

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12 Apr 2017 • Mark

Carbon footprint and veganism

A while ago, a friend posted a video from Spiegel Online, in which the author claims that 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions were due to meat production, which would be more than the amount produced by transportation. He literally claims that "someone who eats less meat ...

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29 Jan 2017 • Mark

Fixing a fridge WITHOUT using an Arduino :-)

If your fridge breaks, chances are that you don't have an Arduino, a Dallas temperature sensor, and relays lying around. At least I didn't when mine broke and unfortunately, it was a very hot summer day when it did. So, here's the most simple fix: Use a timer switch. Many pe...

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29 Jan 2017 • Mark

Fixing a fridge using an Arduino microcontroller

Our fridge broke during the summer of 2015, more or less on the hottest day. It had only been five years old and we had bought it to be eco-friendly but affordable, so it has an A+ rating (in 2010's standards, more on this below). It turns out that a typical cause for this ...

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11 Jan 2017 • Mark

Brexit

Should a personal blog start with politics? Maybe :-) The last year has been very turbulent regarding international politics. Be it Middle East wars, US elections, or the demise of democracy in Poland - it's been bad news all around, most of which was unexpected, at least to...

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10 Jan 2017 • Mark

New Year resolutions

It might look like a New Year resolution, that I finally started this blog. However, it's merely a coincidence: over Christmas, I've found time to get some projects done (like fixing the fridge using an Arduino - more on that later), which now makes this blog the next entry on my to do list.

So, Happy New Year, little blog, let's get started :-)