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A photo of a small brown beetle with fluro green patches on its back.

I came across a fascinatingly brightly-coloured beetle before when I was about to start mowing the lawn this morning. It's like a Christmas beetle but with fluro green bits!

our house darkroom insect

Posted on 6 December 2020, 10:45

A photo of a bowl of tomato-based Indian chicken curry with green beans in it.

Aw yisssss, made myself a curry for the first time in ages (Kristina can't eat onion or garlic so we don't ever have it when she's making things for the both of us). Had it with yoghurt and spicy eggplant pickle and it was AMAZING. 👌🏻

our house darkroom food portrait mode curry

Posted on 5 December 2020, 19:25

A screenshot from speedtest.net showing 273.28Mbps downstream and 22.74Mbps upstream.

Aussie Broadband had a Black Friday deal for 6 months of 250/25 for the same price as our current 100/40 plan, so I figured I'd give it a shot. If we do end up really noticing the decrease in upload speed, we can change back anyway. Speed test looks pretty nice!

Also amusingly, our router doesn't have enough CPU power to do QoS at these speeds (SQM with OpenWRT). If I turn it on, even with the limit at 250Mbps, we don't get more than about 120Mbps down.

screenshot nerd shit speed test

Posted on 5 December 2020, 17:59

A photo of a small (~40cm high) plastic Christmas tree in its own fake pot, covered with tinsel and lights, with a penguin in Santa hay at the base and a Santa snow globe next to it.

Little babby Christmas tree: deployed!

We totally cheated by leaving it decorated from last year, so we just needed to pull it out from the cupboard and plug it in, haha.

christmas our house darkroom

Posted on 1 December 2020, 22:11

Hell yeah, the last bit of our smoker setup arrived today!

our house darkroom new toys barbecue

Posted on 30 November 2020, 20:58

A screenshot of a Grafana dashboard showing the current outdoor and indoor temperature and humidity, with a sparkline behind it, plus the consumption and production of power pulled from our Powerwall, and a complicated graph showing all of the flow to and from the battery and solar panels and grid.

Ok, I think my Grafana home dashboard is pretty much finished. The power-related data now matches the colours that Tesla's own app uses, and the colour of the temperature changes as it gets hotter or colder!

screenshot nerd shit tesla powerwall grafana

Posted on 28 November 2020, 14:03

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on a lounge with his face smushed against the back of the seat.

Beanie is both being weird and also struggling to stay awake.

beanie our house dog darkroom beanie lying on or under things

Posted on 27 November 2020, 22:43

Oh shit, I just discovered Grafana. I... may be here for some time.

screenshot nerd shit tesla powerwall grafana

Posted on 26 November 2020, 16:50

A photo of a Weber "Smokey Mountain" smoker in its box, along with a bag of barbecue briquettes, pecan wood chunks, and a charcoal chimney.

Yesssss.

And even better, Weber were having a Black Friday sale tomorrow which the guy said he'd honour today where you get 10% of the price of the barbecue's worth of accessories, so I got the briquettes, wood chunks, and charcoal chimney for essentially $5! 🎉

our house darkroom new toys barbecue

Posted on 25 November 2020, 11:31

A photo of a 4" LCD display sitting on a shelf, showing PM1.0, PM2.5, and PM10 values.

Got my little Raspberry Pi-powered air quality sensor and display up and running!

our house raspberry pi diy darkroom

Posted on 24 November 2020, 21:52