Category: Patrick’s blog

  • Ukraine war didn’t cause price increases

    How many times have I heard journalists and politicians trot out the explanation that the war in Ukraine has caused the price of fuel (and so everything else) to increase because of vaguely hand-waving, mumble, sanctions, mumble, obvious consequences, war, shortage, price increases. However even a cursory glance at the cost of gas over the…

  • Stumps

  • Solar monitor

    Although the two inverters on our solar panels are supposed to have a serial data output I have struggled to get one of them to work at all. So I thought it would be a nice little project to do using a Raspberry Pi pico using the Rust programming language. In outline the plan is…

  • Rest is Politics

    We enjoyed listening to Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart talking about recent upheavals in government on their pod cast: the rest is politics (probably available on your favorite streaming service too). But I did notice them talking about austerity and cuts as if this was a fact. Bizarrely, although I’ve looked to see where cuts…

  • Split blog using categories

    After a bit of messing around I’ve managed to split my general entries from the ones for dad’s accident. Next job starting posting something interesting. First project is to switch the immersion heater on and off at times to fit in with solar power and the new gov. incentives. The problem is that the solar…