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Last year we replaced our (methane) gas boiler with an air-source heat pump.

I’ve just finished reading the “sequel” to Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie, Clearing the Air (A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change - in 50 Questions and Answers), which I got for Christmas.

I recently made some small changes to my simple mobile-friendly web app to display the daily “Greener Nights” forecast from the Octopus Energy GB API.

When people ask me for a book recommendation on sustainability, I tell them to read Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie (How to be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet).

We’ve gone all electric!

Time marches on.

Unless you’ve been living under a landslide, it won’t have escaped your attention that we’ve recently had a very welcome change of leadership in the UK.

This is a follow-up on my previous post about home energy, providing advice and experience after owning a solar PV and battery storage system for a while.

In our quest to stop burning stuff, one of my projects for the summer of ‘22 was to try to burn no gas or oil directly at home (scope 1 emissions).

The terrible situation in Ukraine is on all of our minds.

My latest project involves running Python not only in the cloud (with Django and PostgreSQL) but also on remote edge devices (Raspberry Pis).

The Winter Olympics are over and we seem to be pretty good at curling.

The latest Winter Olympic Games are almost over and I’ve enjoyed watching them.

We recently switched to Cuckoo Broadband’s “Eggceptional” 1 Gbps Fibre To The Premises (FTTP) service and so far are very happy with it.

.NET is 20 years old this week and I’ve been using it for a big chunk of that.

The long-awaited 64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS is out, joining the 32-bit and legacy options.

Imagine a non-technical person has sent you a URL with a long random string in it, printed on paper in a font where I and l look identical (true story).

I’m a big fan of Django REST framework.

Heroku is an easy platform to host a Django app on but you should set a few things to make sure your app is secure.

We’re on the Octopus Go off-peak electricity tariff and often have flexibility about what day to charge the car or run appliances overnight.

If you’re not already using the excellent Pi-hole® to improve your network performance by blocking trackers and bad ads then it’s very easy to install.

Huxley 2, my cross-platform .NET JSON proxy for the GB railway Live Departure Boards SOAP API, has some new updates.

I typically use universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), also known as globally unique identifiers (GUIDs), as the public IDs for objects in an application.

A lot has changed in the last couple of years but the climate crisis hasn’t gone away.

Django 4.0 is out and so is Django 3.2.10.

I’ve been doing some more work with Django 3.2.9 (on Python 3.10) and I came across some sub-optimal migration strategies.

I was doing some work with Django 3.2.9 and Python 3.10 recently, and I came across a strange issue.

Another year, another .NET Core release. .NET 6 is now out and although it contains some new features, the main things I think are significant are the continued push for high performance and that it is an LTS release.

This is a short summary of my positive stories on how you can take action and do your bit to be more eco-friendly.

This last post in my short series of positive stories on how you can take action and do your bit to be more eco-friendly is about other measures.

This next post in my short series of positive stories on how you can take action and do your bit to be more eco-friendly is about low carbon heating and other measures.

The next in my short series of positive stories on how you can take action and do your bit to be more eco-friendly is about home energy.

It’s been a while since I last posted but don’t worry, I’m still here.

It’s been a very challenging year.

.NET 5 is out on schedule (but with a reduced scope).

Time for another update!

We’re almost halfway though the year, and what a weird year it is!

Octoyosu is a small command line tool I’ve built that works out how much you would save on the Agile Octopus renewable electricity tariff1.

Inspired by recent events1, I’ve polished and released one of the tools I built a few months ago to investigate agile electricity pricing from Octopus Energy2.

Like many other people, I’ve recently been doing much more walking, cycling, reading, growing vegetables, cooking and baking.

In the previous post in this guide I covered how to make a router and filtering DNS server.

2022 update: There are some new updates to Huxley 2 and I now consider it feature-complete.

The Pi-hole project is fantastic.

I’m pleased to announce Huxley 2, the new cross-platform .NET Core version of my JSON proxy for the GB railway Live Departure Boards SOAP API.

For the last year I’ve been working on a business product to help with team cohesion and collaboration.

I’ve updated my InstaBail PWA 1 2 with new excuses and other improvements.

I solve business problems with technology.

I wrote previously about sending email in .NET Core with Office 365 and MailKit but, as that was just a getting started guide, I glossed over some of the complexities with email.

We’re a month into the new year and new decade (and it’s a palindate1), so it’s time to see how things are going.

It’s nearing the end of yet another year (and another decade), so it’s time to start thinking about New Year’s (and decade’s) resolutions.