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Thu 01 June 2023

Solar Monitoring

Posted by fedops in Howto   

In May 2023 we finally joined the "renewable revolution" by having photovoltaic panels installed on the roof and purchasing an inverter to feed power into the grid. Of course one of the main fascinations of the system is that one can acquire performance data from the system and graph that data to see how the system is doing. "kWh peeping" instead of "pixel peeping" if you will...

There are lots of howtos describing how to …

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Wed 06 April 2022

Behind the Scenes of this Blog

Posted by fedops in Howto   

With the move of this blog to Codeberg I also changed the process of producing content. In fact one of the drivers was to redo this exact part. In this post I'd like to give an overview of the setup of the blog and the process of generating content for it.

Data

The basis for everything, as is so often the case these days, are text files in one of the low-barrier-of-entry markup languages. Two …

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Mon 28 March 2022

Installing and Using pandoc on Fedora/Centos/Rocky

Posted by fedops in Howto   

Documentation-As-Code is a much better approach than your WYSIWYG editor of old.

The general consensus regarding how to create and maintain documentation has definitely changed over the past few years. People had come to regard WYSIWYG text processors as the gold standard. Effortlessly arrange text and images, see what you are getting in real time, and everything is just a click away. Besides the big commercial packages there is also a sprawling landscape of free …

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