Scrapwood Drawers As I mentioned in other posts, the shelf solution I build in 2016 is part of my workshop and still holds a whole bunch of stuff besides also housing my drill press and band saw. However I'm not so happy with the Trofast boxes anymore for several reasons: * They're not the most effective use of the available space… ▶

Growatt & Home Assistant My solar installation uses a Growatt SPH 8000 inverter and of course I wanted the data it provides (produced, used, stored energy etc) in Home Assistant. That was relatively easy using the the Growatt integration available. This integration was… ▶

Tonie Unicorn Shelf A few weeks ago, Kaddi and I finished building a Tonie shelf. Tonies? So, what are Tonies? If you're around my age you probably grew up with a cassette player and various children's tapes. They were relatively cheap and kept the kids occupied for an hour or so. Even young children quickly learned how to use cassette tapes and players.… ▶

Using SQLite as Vector Store in PHP At work, I'm working on a plugin for DokuWiki that uses OpenAI's ChatGPT to answer questions by referencing the wiki pages. The basic principle is described in this forum post: Experimental Plugin: AIChat - chat with your wiki pages using ChatGPT. Basically, get embedding vectors for all your page data, use those to find the data that is semantically most similar to the asked question and use that as a context for ChatGPT.… ▶

Liberating the Sonoff Power Elite My DIY Wall Box has worked great for the last couple of years until recently. For some reason the charging stopped despite the car's battery being far from full. Turning off the power and turning it back on fixed the problem for a bit until charging stopped again.… ▶

404 - Bench not found For the last week, we've been on a small vacation to the Baltic Sea and when we returned, our neighbors asked if we had experienced “the storm” up there. We hadn't and didn't think much about it. But when I went for a walk with Tarly today, I understood what they meant by… ▶

Tarly Update A little less than half a year ago, Tarly came into our life. As a shelter dog with a mostly unknown past, he isn't an easy dog. But today I realized how much progress there has been already. During our morning walk he stuck his nose into some deep grass and when he came out, his face was full of burs. Just a couple of months ago this would have been a… ▶

Music Recommendation: Ren This is probably old news for young folks, but I only recently stumbled about the music by Ren. To me it's probably the most powerful thing that I've heard in the last couple of years. I'm not able to find the right words to describe Ren's music. The lyrics (powerful, easy to understand despite the thick Welsh accent), the music (such a wide range) and the videos (often shot in one continuous take) are just forming an overall master piece.… ▶

Guerilla Banking On my days off, I like to take the car and drive a bit to take Tarly on a walk through the nearby fields and forests instead of walking through the immediate neighborhood. One of our usual rounds comes by an old oak tree in the middle of several fields. And under that oak is a bench. I love to take a break there, drink coffee from a thermos, listen to the birds and pet the dog. I'm nearly 45 and I have come to enjoy the existence of a well placed bench.… ▶

Google Maps Reviews are Dead Remember when Google Maps reviews meant something? For a while it felt like they empowered the “common man”. If you received shitty service or were taken advantage of, you could at least warn your fellow men... Nowadays the Maps reviews are more and more meaningless. I talked about the fake reviews of my… ▶