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In 1998 I wrote a financial summary for our ERP system (EUROnet) running on MS DOS with a dBase db in the backend. I've connected the dBase to a PHP 3 web server with Apache 1 and then summarized the sales data. My boss loved it. He could see numbers which are not implemented in the ERP reports.

same here. still running on the previous version on all devices. Gonna sit this out ...

Nice. This looks way better than this one written in Go: https://github.com/vdobler/ht it uses hjson.

We used it very often a couple of years ago. Will try hurl.

Yes that is the SBB in Switzerland but they do not turn the lights, instead they turn on the heaters for the track switches. Not sure if that is all rumours.

For solar excess charging I use evcc.io

When I charge the car via battery then only down to ~75% for now. The remaining energy is needed by the house during winter months.

Of course it is a bit oversized.

We’re living in a big river valley where we have fog from October until March. On some days in November the fog is so dense that the whole system does not produce any kind of energy. On the other days the produced kWh are enough to charge the battery.

We have a heat pump (extrem efficient), servers, one electric car, etc which consumes all together around 13MWh per year. The solar system produces around 27.5MWh. Most of the energy gets fed back into the grid.

We’re currently investigating to connect the neighbour houses physically to us. But that takes even more time here :-(

I did build my own solar system too. In Switzerland.

Took me 1-2 month planning and then 3 month building it alone nearly each day. Sept 2023 til Xmas 2023. Got all the hardware from a PV dealer friend on his purchase price level. Even 24 panels I have put myself alone onto the roof. With two persons it was a bit better.

I've got: 420w x 71 Trina solar panels and two SolarEdge inverters. SE10K Hybrid and a SE17k. Also a 24kWh BYD LFP battery.

All prices without state funding: Offers from local installers for 56*410W Panels without battery were around 65k CHF.

I've paid now 44k CHF including every kind of cost associated with building it.

Should write a blog post about it :-)

Next project is a solar fence with 6kWp.

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I've did this all and currently installing a ~29kWp solar roof myself here in Switzerland. I will pay less than one third of the costs as when it gets installed via a company.

well written post!

one minor thing: I've skipped using build tags for integration tests because those tests will be out of sync one day with your main code, even with Goland (?).

Instead I use the usual test and check if an environment variable is set, if not, then

    t.Skipf("env var %q not set, skipping integration test",envVarName)

    func init() { flagIntegration := flag.Bool("test.integration",false,"run int tests") }

    $ go test -v -test.integration

https://github.com/mpvl/unique

using it for years. much better than gofmt. thanks for all the work!

I also have a pihole in my network and it blocks 30% of all requests. But for TV I use a NEC MultiSync ME501 50“. A dump display. Use it my home gym for Zwift and workout displays.

Impressive idea. Hope they get a better efficiency factor.

On a side node, you can already add Hydrogen to your home. There is a startup in Berlin, DE which sells complete systems for home: solar roof, heat pump, electrolysis device, bottles and ventilation system.

During summer you fill the bottles with H2 and during winter you consume it.

I'm not affiliated with them. The price before Corona for the whole system was around 65k Euro and now around 100k Euro.

https://www.homepowersolutions.de/en/product/ Picea is the name

same here! i love the autosteer in my Sept 2019 Model 3.

SMS 2FA is way better than 2FA via email. I can't convince that huge French company to add also an authenticator app besides their email 2fa.

And if you do functional bodybuilding aka CrossFit have a follow here from the guys of ETH Zurich: https://www.instagram.com/wod_science/

We've build a house last year in CH. I've asked the architect if he can dig one part of the cellar just 1.50m deeper. So I have a cellar with a 380cm ceiling height. It is now a fully equipped Crossfit gym. Even better than my local CF "box". Saves so much time. Also following an online programming. But still once a week I hit the local box just to catch up and socialize with others.

thanks for the heads up! Hopefully Marcus Filly isn't a Scientologist because they both sometimes do workouts together. I really like Fillys programming but ... if so, no money goes towards Scientology.

For all the German speakers have a look at https://urknall-weltall-leben.de

we did that too but with donations towards an African country.

Same in the DACH region of Europe when you have an Eastern European name.

MPVL also left Google (Zurich) last month after being nearly 18 years at Google.

same here! Until 2008/2009 I ran FreeBSD 5/6 on one of my internal business SCSI RAID servers, AKA home business cloud ;-)

Compiled it myself, compiled PHP/MySQL/Apache, tweaked it and it always worked.

Either CrossFit in the evening (at home or in the German gym) or cycling outdoors (or at Zwift.com) or cooking with the family. Then coding again on private projects.

Have a look at, also in Go written, https://github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto which out performs bigcache and freecache (see the colourful graphics)

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There is an excellent German ZDF documentary about Alzheimer/Dementia at young people: https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/37-grad/37-das-grosse-verge...

Been doing that for a couple of years. Works well. No need to switch the train between Waldshut/Koblenz and Zurich. Allows me 2h of coding each day during the train ride.