This one is finally ready to get spade. She’s been pining for a boy for a day now!

Running the s19 to capture curtailed solar today. Getting around 50th/s for essentially free energy. There must be so many home solar systems that are missing out on this

Having a good run of sunshine at the moment. Been running off solar and battery for 5 days now. Crazy how it ramps up. The flat bit of the graph is clipping though. When the battery is charged and the export limit kicks in. I need to be mining with those kWhs that are being lost!

Had quite a few credits left on Copilot for the month so used Claude Opus for the first time on a project. Just attached the brief and screenshot of the design and it pretty much did the job for me, just needs polishing now. Gonna tell the boss “it’s getting there” and get some diy done around the house tomorrow 🤣

It’s crazy how dumb my solar system is, it was scheduled to charge the battery for 1hr overnight but because of daylight savings it had a brain fart and decided to go into “power saving mode”. You’d think DST would be a consideration for coders on these things…

Nearly ready to live test my little vibed script that decides how much to charge the battery overnight based on tomorrows weather Using home assistant and a local ollama model to predict solar production and suggest % charge Desperate times!

Brewing a porter today, kinda the wrong time of year for it but it’ll keep til next winter #brewstr

Spring has sprung here, nearly time for this one to get fixed and poop outdoors! #catstr

We provide a couple of days worth of firewood for our Airbnb guests in the cold months. Most people can’t seem to operate a wood burner though and the majority of the time I find barely burned logs and totally black glass. I think I need to add some instructions or maybe a QR link to a YouTube short.

Why do cats sleep in weird places? #catstr

Friday night chilling by the fire #catstr

Well, I’m out of fiat…

I’m about 10years behind the times with my Home Assistant tinkering, maybe in another 10years I’ll be tinkering with one of those AI agent server things

Swapped out the s9 in my ventilation system for a NerdQAxe Hydro rev 6. Pretty simple swap, just used the same duct adapters from the s9 either side of the radiator. Now getting the same heat input but over 5x the hash rate

Cheap sats on payday, what’s not to like!

Right, nerdaxeq++ rev6 hydro purchased. Hopefully that sorts out the foibles of the DIY PIV unit making it quieter, a bit less sketchy and way more efficient hash rate wise. Here’s a diagram of how PIV works, I’m just using a miner as the heating element instead of an off the shelf unit that uses a ceramic heater… the idea is to increase ventilation and reduce humidity/damp/mould in my old stone walled house. #heatpunk

GM, been running my miner PIV system for a week now. It’s working well, definitely pushing lower humidity air into the house and making it feel fresher. Whether it fixes the pesky damp patches on the exterior stone walls remains to be seen. The issues I need to fix with it are noise level and efficiency. It’s not gonna be cheap, the best way I can think of is to replace the S9 with 2x NerdQAxe Hydros so I match the current 200w heating output. That should sort the noise and j/th efficiency out. #heatpunks

Does anybody have any experience under clocking ant miners and using a PC power supply instead of the noisy stock PSU? #asknostr #heatpunks

Just hanging a miner from the roof with bungee cords. What’s the worst that could happen? It does damp the sound a bit but thinking I need to get a lower wattage PSU that doesn’t permanently run its fan to make it quieter. #heatpunk

Sunday eve relaxing by the fire #catstr