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I’ve recently been looking at getting solar panels with a battery for my house (I decided not to proceed just yet) and something struck me as particularly odd: Internet connectivity requirements for battery warranties.

I spent a decent chunk of my Sunday hunting an elusive memory leak in a tool that I wrote years ago and still maintain.

Preface In 2023, the process of reinstalling Windows on a newly purchased laptop is still as useful as it has been ten years ago.

I recently moved to a new house and (re-)started adding “smarts” to it, such as smart bulbs, smart switches, and various sensors.

I’ve been having a lot of fun over the last couple of weeks exploring Stable Diffusion, a deep learning text-to-image AI model.

As with part 3, this is not exactly meteorology, but rather a necessary component of a modern meteorological application.

Taking a little break from my Meteorological meanderings posts, I wanted to share my experience in switching away from KeePass, which I have used since at least 2007, to Bitwarden, a much more modern open source password manager.

Strictly speaking, this isn’t meteorology.

In the previous post, we used GDAL to query temperature information from a downloaded HRRR GRIB2 file.

NOAA’s NCEP generates a lot of weather data.