This week I put some love into my 300 litre saltwater reef aquarium by upgrading the controller with new features. Now it turns on the new cabinet lights automatically and controls the T5 bulb fixture I installed a few weeks ago.

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Alonissos Hello feature-self 👋. Alonissos is awesome! Go back there. flying over the alps Tucked away on this little Greek island is slice of paradise. This being my first time to Greece I can’t speak for the entire country or all it’s islands, but this one is the best! Diving Masha originally heard about this island before we started diving. We’ve luck to thank, it has great diving. Located on a large marine park much of the water near this island is protected leading to great underwater nature.... read more

Ahrn Valley We finished off the 2021-2022 ski season in the last weekend of March. The plan was to join another couple but unfortunately they got Covid so we ventured the Ahrn Valley alone. Part of Südtirol the Ahrn Valley is a quiet Italian refuge for spring ski touring. To get there you drive South across the Austrian German border around the corner back North. Though Italy it feels more like Tirol, AT then Bergamo, IT.... read more

Teufelsgrat 3 Climb Audio post covering a climb made with friends on a recent trip to Vienna. alpine talk guide book wall from below climbing prep barefoot yes hair me on lead view Links topo bergsteigen.com beta Hohe Wand wikipedia entry ... read more

Life clock A clock I built to accompany my niece through life. It greets you differently everyday and tells you how old you are. Example output: Hello X, Today you are 3 years and 45 days old. Have a speedy day. The greetings span English, German, and Russian’s full dictionary of ~55,000 words. So there are enough adjectives for ~153 years. case project case case craftcloud3d hubs enclosure tips adafruit 3d printing tips hardware Selected once again because it’s cheap, powerful, and can be programmed with CircuitPython, is the Raspberry Pi Pico micro-controller.... read more

Torscharte ski tour route Another weekend, another ski tour. This time visiting once again the peculiar Austria valley of Großer Ahornboden. leaving the parking lot Peculiar because though it is Austrian, one can’t drive from there to Innsbruck without going back up and around through Germany, 🤯. Also the snow melting here drains into / starts the Isar river. The river that flows through Munich. Our plan was to do the Hochglückscharte route near the end of the valley but the road to reach there was closed, opening April 1st.... read more

Ochsenstaffel spring ski tour route The voice in the back of my head: “The Covid pandemic is forever!” “The war in Ukraine means you’ll never be able to visit Russia!” “The economy is going to crash!” Maybe those things are all true 🤷‍♂️, maybe not. One thing I know is when I’m in the mountains I can’t hear that voice. The howling wind flapping the hood of my jacked as I press my skies into a steep wall of snow, covers it up.... read more

USB Spelunking, a College Look Back From the drawer of an old drafting desk on the third floor of an architecture school building, to my the closet of my first solo apartment, managing not to get lost in the transition from Milwaukee to Munich this little USB drive I hold in my hand is lucky. As am I for a chance to peer back into my college days and share them with you.... read more

Oblastle Dev Log 002 Welcome back to another update on Oblastle, the geography quiz game I’m building for my friends and family. Flags are now waving helping players as hints along with other improvements and fixes. New countries Continuing the .svg map export from amcharts, I’ve now added Ukraine and Germany to the game. That just leaves Russia to do for the initial release. And yes. I realize the irony in the game being named Oblastle and not having any Russian oblasts.... read more

Oblastle Dev Log 001 Lately my family and I here in Germany have been playing a lot of Wordle and Worldle. Every morning our chat group is filled with messages sharing scores, reacting to others, and fun facts once everyone has answered. I’ve discussed words and places that would have otherwise never come up. chat Inspired by the fun we are having and the fact these games are rather simple web apps, I’ve set out to make my own.... read more