Stanley Silent Compressor Repair I own a small, oil-less compressor sold by Stanley. It really is a product developed by Italian company FNA and licensed to different companies. I believe the compressor is sold under at least these names: Stanley 100/8/6 Silent Air Compressor DST … | Continue reading
Hugo vs. Lektor (vs. Grav) About two or three years ago I completely revamped the web site of my employer CosmoCode. Back then I picked Grav as the CMS. Grav Grav is a PHP based flat file content management system. I had made a smaller website with it for Kaddi's mum's house boat … | Continue reading
Finding the Best Toaster Toast has been mentioned in this blog surprisingly often. I like toast, so when, after 8 years, my current Toaster started to misbehave I needed a replacement. This turned out more difficult than you'd think. My old toaster was a Russell Hobbs “21293-56 L … | Continue reading
Love Letter to my Dog It's exactly one year since Kaddi and I drove to the shelter and picked up Tarly the dog. One year of daily walks. One year of feeding, grooming and petting. One year of setting rules and boundaries and sometimes letting them slide. One year of growing close … | Continue reading
MICO Toastie About 8 years ago I blogged about Toastabags - simple bags that allow you to make grilled cheese sandwiches in a Toaster. I still love them, I still use them. But recently I stumbled about a thing in this YouTube video: Ashens and Barry are using a MICO Toastie by … | Continue reading
Soldering Station Box For decades I used a very cheap soldering iron without any temperature control. When it was time to replace it, I went for a TS80 - a tiny soldering iron powered by USB-C. It was great, but the display died after just a few uses. So I replaced it with a Pine … | Continue reading
End of Year Wood Working The year is nearly over, time to quickly post about the three last wood working projects. The first was some firewood shelves. Since we had felled a tree in October and we had also ordered some commercial firewood, a proper storage solution was needed. Th … | Continue reading
Clamps! It's a well known fact in wood working that you can never have enough clamps. But clamps are expensive. So when I ran out again during a recent project, I decided to browse the local classifieds to see if there might be a good deal to be had. There was one seller, offerin … | Continue reading
Scrapwood Drawers As I mentioned in other posts, the shelf solution I build in 2016 is part of my workshop and still holds a whole bunch of stuff besides also housing my drill press and band saw. However I'm not so happy with the Trofast boxes anymore for several reasons: They're … | Continue reading
Growatt & Home Assistant My solar installation uses a Growatt SPH 8000 inverter and of course I wanted the data it provides (produced, used, stored energy etc) in Home Assistant. That was relatively easy using the the Growatt integration available. This integration was broken by … | Continue reading
Guerilla Banking On my days off, I like to take the car and drive a bit to take Tarly on a walk through the nearby fields and forests instead of walking through the immediate neighborhood. One of our usual rounds comes by an old oak tree in the middle of several fields. And und … | Continue reading
Tarly the dog This is Tarly. He is a good boy. He's living with us now for a week. We picked him up from a shelter. Ever since we bought the house, we thought about maybe getting a dog. So two weeks ago we visited the shelter. Mostly “just to have a look” and learn how … | Continue reading