Posted on Thu 07 May 2026 in energy
Harnessing the power of solar energy has become an important step toward a sustainable and energy-efficient home. An key component are solar inverters and home battery systems, which work together to convert sunlight into usable electricity and store excess energy for later use. Controlling these systems effectively can maximize energy …
Posted on Sat 01 February 2025 in sysadmin
We've been using Adobe Lightroom for the last 12 years to manage our family pictures. I have enjoyed using it, but lately am getting more and more annoyed with Adobe's practices. First there was the push to the cloud with the CC-series of their products. And although you can still …
Posted on Sat 31 August 2024 in games
Shapez.io is a factory simulation game where you need to design a factory to produce a given shape. The needed shapes increase in difficulty in the first 25 levels, but stay constant after that. Obviously, some factory designs are reusable, so I documented my factory-parts here.
IF you want …
Posted on Wed 03 January 2024 in linux
When running rootless podman on a ZFS mount, it defaults to the vfs storage driver.
And while this works, it causes a huge waste of disk space by duplicating files for every layer.
Using overlay solves this when running rootfull, but this is currently not supported on ZFS.
It should …
Posted on Wed 22 November 2023 in electronics
WLED is an open source project for controlling LED-strips. I wanted my LED strip to "wipe on" when powering on, similar to the first half of the "Wipe" effect, but staying on after that. These are my notes.
Searching around for similar idea's, I found a usermod for a stairway …
Posted on Thu 31 August 2023 in electronics
I was considering a SK6812 strip for a project of mine, but I found it very hard to find information online about the power consumption. So I ordered a test strip to do the measurements myself. The SK6812 is an individually addressable LED strip. I got the RGBW variant, where …
Posted on Wed 05 July 2023 in games
I wanted a challenge, so I decided to try a "Grand Tour" of the Kerbolar system in Kerbal Space Program. A "Grand Tour" is a single mission where you visit all bodies in the Kerbolar system. The definition of "visit" varies from fly-by to manned landing, depending on how challenging …
Posted on Mon 12 June 2023 in games
Microsoft Flight Simulator provides "bush trips": a set of VFR flights across an area with nice scenery. When flying these bush trips, you have to rely on the description only, as no navigation aids are available. To me, as a non-native speaker, the descriptions aren't always very clear.
So I …
Posted on Sat 07 January 2023 in linux
I'm currently running all of my monitoring through Prometheus, backed with InfluxDB for the long-term storage of selected metrics. But recently, I've been limited in functionality when creating graphs in Grafana. And although I like Prometheus, it looks like my use-case is outside the domain of Prometheus.
I …
Posted on Tue 03 January 2023 in linux
My home server already uses LXC-containers. I use them to keep services isolated, so that I can upgrade my mail server without causing issues to my Nextcloud setup. But these containers contain a full OS inside them. And while this works, it's a bit of work to upgrade a handful …