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Every year I attempt grander gardening schemes on my balcony. This year turned out well!

Freiburg's local BalkonSolar club organized a one-day event to supply over 100 local residents with their own balcony solar systems.

I installed a meter for the solar panels on our balcony.

A warm round of applause for the new release.

My aunt brought me a huge find of porcini mushrooms she picked in the Black Forest.

I got a home-growing kit from our local market and grew some beautiful pink oyster mushrooms.

My first attempt to run mycelium, with the goal of harvesting and cooking homegrown King Oyster mushrooms.

My first foraging find, when I happened to stumble upon gourmet mushrooms right in my own neighborhood.

If the site looks broken, it's not. It's my website without CSS!

Build rich, informative offline content lists using the structured data in your microformatted HTML.

Another way to adapt your media to dark mode.

Announcing a new Drupal module that enhances your existing site with drop-in support for Progressive Web App functionality.

To eliminate third-party tracking on my website I have transitioned off Google Analytics and am now using Matomo.

I've moved exclusively to Webmentions instead of using a more traditional commenting system. Respond to this entry by linking to it from your own website!

A guide to verify your USER.github.io domain with Brave Creators.

Using the Service Worker offline cache to progressively enhance static content.

Brave offers a new compensation model for web publishing. Instead of relying on third-party advertising, sites can be paid directly by visitors using digital currency.

Learning how to program Arduino in the open. This time I'm learning how to use the Bare Conductive TouchBoard Pro kit.

Learning to program Arduino in the open. Building a small, automated greenhouse using sensors and hobbyist-grade electronic components.

Learning to program Arduino in the open. Showing real-time temperature and humidity data on a liquid crystal display.

Learning to program Arduino in the open. This experiment involved the Johnny Five platform and Socket.io, allowing me to power an Adafruit NeoPixel from my pet project bustashape.

Learning to program Arduino in the open. This experiment involved the Johnny Five platform, allowing me to power an Adafruit NeoPixel with JavaScript.

Stabilize inconsistent analog input signals with input smoothing. Some basic math operations help us collect more reliable data.

Using the LilyPad Arduino to build a LED turn-signal system into a jacket, increasing night time safety for bicyclists.

Learning how to program Arduino in the open. This experiment involved a soil moisture sensor and an Arduino Uno.

Learning how to program Arduino in the open. This project used the LilyPad Arduino to decorate a purse with LEDs.

Learning how to program Arduino in the open. This experiment involved a light sensor and Arduino IDE's Serial Plotter.

Learning how to program Arduino in the open. This experiment involved a light sensor and pulse width modulation.

A fun little technique to add depth and subtlety to your design.

A preview of an upcoming web standard that lets you use a shorter, more reliable syntax for simple CSS Transforms.

Learn how to display a list of user-saved articles when they return to your website while offline.

A few practical uses for Physical Web beacons that can benefit regular people.

A tech overview of my side project for creating art on the web.

Certain new features of the Web Platform require a secure origin, complicating local development and testing. Use a network proxy to make testing localhost on real devices easy!

Learn how to add content to the Service Worker cache at the request of the visitor, then serve it offline.