Building a DSMR reading board

I decided I had to get something with slightly more CPU power than my Thinkpad x230 for a few tasks so I got a refurbished x280, aside from the worse keyboard the laptop is pretty nice and light. It shipped with Windows of course so the first thing I did is to install Ubuntu on the thing to wipe that off and verify all the hardware is working...

Everyone that has tried to make some nice charts in Grafana has probably come across timeseries databases, for example InfluxDB or Prometheus. I've deployed a few instances of these things for various tasks and I've always been annoyed by how they work. But this is a consequence of having great performance right? The thing is... most the...

Network switches are simple devices, packets go in, packets go out. Luckily people have figured out how to make it complicated instead and invented managed switches. Usually this is done by adding a web-interface for configuring the settings and see things like port status. If you have more expensive switches then you'd even get access to some...

I don't generally get along great with CAD software with the exception of KiCad. I guess the UX for designing things is just a lot simpler when you only have 2 dimensions to worry about. After enjoying making a PCB in KiCad the annoying for me is always getting a case designed to fit the board. If I'm lucky I don't need many external holes to fit...

I've been working on the code that has become libmegapixels for a bit more as a year now. It has taken several thrown-away codebases to come to a general architecture I was happy with and it it has been quite a task to split off media pipeline tasks from the original Megapixels codebase. After staring at this code for many months I thought I've...