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👋 network engineer building an off-grid home and reconnecting with nature
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we have acquired a used shipping container to store our gardening tools on our property. it is in surprisingly good shape. allegedly, it made just a single trip before it had to make room for even more containers arriving at port. global trade is wild. https://youtu.be/9vw6P2JzN20
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smth went wrong with the reporting of taxes withheld back when i lived in the uk. now hmrs (uk tax collector) wants a ridiculously large amount of money from me within a couple of days. very stressful. hopefully i can get the proofs i need to avoid that. b/c i paid my taxes and then some. time waste. but a good opportunity to test my zen.
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can highly recommend avatar 2 in 3d. great cgi, astounding shots, interesting sky people (future humans) tech like a maglev and a giant sea animal hunting boat. james cameron really did make great use of the new sony detachable sensors and incorporating his years long camera research. 3d is not dead. and i love it. story also pretty good albeit a bit hollowoody, naturally.
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winter time at stardust lane: a tree fell down and we had to clear the road (once again) https://youtu.be/uMJogV6jyLs (please like and subscribe, haha, thx)
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i need to transport some building material but my car is too small. this annoys me. i might need to make invest in a trailer which i try to avoid. renting is prohibitively expensive given how often i will need to haul lumber and other stuff. some days i feel very resource constrained and that holds me back with big ideas.
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we now have a storage container. still ten years away from a house but this feels like progress. and my biggest xmas gift box ever. 🎁 🫙
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doing controlled burns on our property. it is fun. roasted potatoes and veggies for lunch. sunshine. silence. recharge time.
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today’s mood: full on christmas 🤶 🎄 best time of the year
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the year is approaching its quieter time. i have a important milestone at work coming up, much like an exam, and i need to ramp up my prep if i wanna make it through. on my mountain property i will receive a shipping container next week to serve a storage. exciting, given the road conditions at this time of the year. one more week to go and then it all slows down. 🎄
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i ran out of disk space. the action cameras produce so much data even though i am only using 1080p instead of 4k. so i bought an external hard drive to cope with the influx of footage every week. in other news: my new video has received over 200 views. i‘m surprised so many people are interested in our journey towards a off grid home in nature. https://youtu.be/LySaNbzFOKY (wood splitting in the rain)
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it all started with me sharing my nature weekends and property cleanup videos with family and friends. now it is my new hobby: taping and scrappy video cutting. no aspiration to be perfect, just for fun.
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don't have a fancy battery to store excess solar power but i have dead trees and scrap lumber. so i built myself an eco friendly solar heat energy storage solution. in less fancy terms: another day on our property. i built a firewood rack :) https://youtu.be/Qo9kzAlLmJA
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on the weekend i build a sawhorse (aka sawbuck) so we can cut firewood. so many dead trees on our property, turning them into firewood for cozy evenings down the road. https://youtu.be/xaWsbzmvEkY
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turns out, the wife is a great tree cutter. she roamed our property and identified dead trees, cut them into smaller pieces, hauled them to our sawhorse, and made firewood. i was busy building a large wood rack to stack the influx of material. now she is tired :)
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once i helped installing a metal fence around a large meadow for an outdoor hacker camp (emf camp) “near” london. they provided me with a brand impact driver to do the job. the tool was extremely reliable and when i had to buy my first power tool years later i chose the same brand. and this is how i bought into the ecosystem. a trap! now all my tools and batteries are from the same vendor, no way out. it’s like the ios/android ecosystem but in real life. anyhow, i got myself a miter saw stand and did an unboxing video. the vendor should sponsor me, lol. https://youtu.be/LjtBPXD5oVg
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i contributed to a book called "lan party" which is about the 90s/2000 era lan parties, before gaming went onto the internet forever. it looks like my contribution was chosen to be included in the final print, even a photo of mine might end up in the book. i might be in a history book! am i old now? how should i feel?
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the web is utterly broken. we can build a better one. one that provides value to people's life. one that connects people in a meaningful way. one that is quirky in nature, clunky to use, a place that delivers only what it needs to and then disappears into the background of our lifes. a people first information highway. not a brain-hacking, money-optimized, ad-ladden place to waste precious life hours.
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i’m considering converting my blog to a gemlog first. with the option to render html, but maybe i won’t serve the web anymore. sounds like a big step. unsure what is best. certainly don’t look forward to running servers again… cloudflare pages (like netlify just different provider) is a great place to host static content. but don’t think they serve gemini. i want to avoid being single homed. that doesn’t sound right to the site reliability engineer that i am. ideas?
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every time i watch the latest serenity os update video on youtube i want to download, compile, and run the os immediately. it is so impressive what can be done by a small group of people who don't take "no" or "impossible" for an answer. we have to add gemini support to the browser, though, it would just be perfect! anyone else into serenity os?
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friday evenings are my new productivity spot. the unexpected power of being alone in the office and having no one ping me or send me emails. unfortunately, also no one there to review code changes.
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the big web is broken. wanted to read an article on my phone and all i got was this: http://bayimg.com/iabedaAbH good lord, what would we do without the small web.
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yesterday i was reminded that planning is good, but plans go puff quickly. arriving at our piece of land i was equipped to clear some branches that started growing into the road overhang. what i actually found was a dead tree that fell onto a different part of the road. so i spent most of the day turning the tree info handy pieces of firewood and stacked it up nearby. time flies and eventually my chainsaw ran thru all the batteries i had. it was such a please to deal with the curveball nature threw at me and be successful in that. buying this place creates challenges and satisfaction each weekend. big difference from the moving of bits and bytes during the week.
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another saturday in the mountains. we got the old tracked loader running. it made a nailing noise. i guess the injection needs to be looked after. it is scheduled to be sold off. the wife got herself a pro level weed eater and starting whacking the stuff out of existence. next week we are looking at creating burn piles. we also played powerball hoping to boost our construction budget up from 0. that, of course, didn’t work. as engineers we know that the odds are not in our favor but 10 bucks for hope seemed like a good deal.
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there is this interesting space between prefab homes and on-site construction that is prefab walls and roofs to be assembled at the construction site that are customizable to great extend. electric, plumbing, shape of house, precision cuts, solar, even air tightness is an option. this space seem worth exploring. i want to do most construction work myself, otoh, i’d take a cnc routed and nailed wall any day over slowly building out in the open over weeks and months. tradeoffs and decisions!
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i brought my idea to charge a 4x4 electric vehicle via solar to my friend who is smarter than me. he did some quick math and it turns out what i was planning is quite a stretch. i would need a lot of buffer batteries in my (to be built) house to store a full car charge during the day (solar) and then transfer it overnight to the car (to be bought one day) good thing i don’t have money to do anything right now and start again from scratch. the solar only car charging idea gets too expensive given current prices and battery technologies.
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we spent the day at the property we just bought. 12ac of vacant mountain forest. huge redwoods. i put up a mailbox and build a bench and a table out of old wood i found. the water pipe has a leak. well, leak is an understatement. it is basically broken. so we gotta run a new pipe. nothing went as planned and still it was a great day and i feel accomplished. back to nature!
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i need to tow a trailer with our car soon to get some building materials onto our nature mountain property. i installed a tow hitch receiver which was my first modification of a car ever. then time ran out and it got dark. i reassembled the car. next i have to disassemble the whole back of the car again to connect the wire harness. unfortunately i broke some decorative parts that are impossible to find in stock somewhere. so soon i can tow a trailer but the car looks broken from the outside. tradeoffs! in other news: the wife got poison oak while hanging out in our forest and the rashes are spreading. sorry to see her suffer.
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my wife spent a day in our little redwood grove in a hammock. she had a stressful week, too. welcome relaxation. at the end of the day she didn’t want to leave. nature is surprisingly powerful in calming is down. now we need to build a small shed or cabin in the clearing to be able to stay late some days. keeping mountain lions and other nocturnal wildlife apart from us. i am a bit scared of those. the country i grew up in wasn’t home to dangerous animals.
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omg it happened. my wife and i bought 10+ acres of beautiful redwood forest and some clearings. our own piece of nature. so much work now! and it seems to be buildable as well. so much to do! couldn’t be happier.
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company shut down my business unit. job and visa in limbo for a brief period. finalized land purchase. the past week was a rollercoaster ride par excellence. need a break. have a great weekend everyone!