Steve Dougherty's Blog

Remember, in the last post, when I was excited that the voltage to the heat pump, and therefore the heatpump, was now both stable and within spec?

I know it sounds like a delicious dish, but after getting a heat pump installed, it went unresponsive after the tech left.

Filament swatches are a good idea.

I couldn’t get a marquee animation working so I noodled around with single pixels and got a nice result: It’s not a simple loop of the two movement directions – it gets gradually dimmer and faster, and then returns.

I made a 10 Ah solar powered charger!

My mower boundary wire got a break in it this spring, and unlike previous times, I didn’t know why.

That’s what it says on the case, anyway.

After Ars Technica ran this article on a Stable Diffusion mobile app, it seemed like a good time to give Stable Diffusion another shot.

I had figured it wouldn’t happen once Ghost Ship Games said they weren’t going to tackle it, but it turns out it’s viable to mod in!

I made button-poe to allow using an Adafruit Feather as a light switch via Home Assistant: It’s not super clear that it’s doing anything, so check the shadow the cable casts from the lamp in the lower right.