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Monitoring my HVAC

When I want to know how well my HVAC system is working, smart thermostats and ad-hoc checks don’t get me as far as I’d like. That means it’s time to create an entire system to monitor that information and present it graphically. This is normal, right? Requirements Overall, I didn’t want to spend much money on this. Yes, time is money, blah blah blah. Learning new tech offsets the cost of time, and it’s a better use of late-night chill time than playing a game anyway....

2022-11-27 · (updated 2022-11-28) · 15 min · 3184 words · Ben

SRI: Fixing Security Warnings

Running some static code scanning on my rendered site with Sonarcloud, I found some potential security concerns with how I was loading the mermaid javascript. ...

2022-07-17 · 1 min · 180 words · Ben

Obsidian Configuration

Here is the setup I’ve been using in Obsidian since late March 2022. The default plugins and configuration would provide most of the functionality I want. However, I tweaked a few things to add more value than my Bullet Journal could provide. ...

2022-07-03 · (updated 2022-11-20) · 7 min · 1333 words · Ben

Mermaid + Hugo v2: Better, Faster

It took three days after finishing the work to display Mermaid diagrams (using shortcodes) to discover an easier method. Let’s talk a bit about custom markdown rendering! ...

2022-06-26 · (updated 2022-07-18) · 3 min · Ben

Mermaid + Hugo

I learned about Mermaid in 2021 while trying to find a way to better see changes in diagrams at work. Being able to look through a revision history of images was tolerable but only slightly better than the proverbial needle and the unexplained presence of a nearby haystack. But Mermaid resolves my complaints by rendering text/code into fairly nice-looking diagrams and visualizations. Some are too plain for my liking (looking at you, state diagram), but they convey information graphically....

2022-06-23 · (updated 2022-07-13) · 4 min · Ben