Gosh, I so needed a vacation. January was a slog, and I started February in a foul mood. I am glad to report things are trending upwards.

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One cool thing that happened in February is that I had solar panels installed. Buckle up, this is nerdy.

Here are seven out …

At the start of January, a “snowpocalypse” happened in the Netherlands. As 30cm (~10in) of snow fell over two days, people, cars and trains stayed home. Most planes did too. The airport ran out of de-icing fluid.

It was rather pretty, though. It made me happy.

Snow in the village …

An out-of-band entry to flush a backlog of topics that don’t fit the monthly updates:

• Very valid heuristic from this post on Bluesky:

  If you can substitute “hungry ghost trapped in a jar” for “AI” in a sentence it’s probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take “I …

The common thread for December was to put to work certain skills and ambitions that had been brewing for the last year.

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The first was the creation of this dashboard:

Music radio channels.

Ventilation and air quality overview.

What you see here is a cheap Android tablet displaying a Home …