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#today will include working through #NewScientist articles and meeting friends (including one over from the US) for beers...

#today there is a little urgent-ish #lifeAdmin to do, at least a little #NewScientist article splurge, and then hopefully the few lines of initial code fixes for my

#today I have done some admin related to groups I run, and I am now reading the IEA Electricity 2025* report because I know how to live on the edge.
*The October update ofc, you monster!

#today we will probably have generated more 'leccy by PV than we consumed for the first time this year; my brand new energy management tweaks thus got an unexpectedly early test.
I helped a fellow #PhD practising for their

#today in at uni and, unusually, may try to actually get some of my #research #buildingModel work done today - there's some easy-ish clear next steps to take on the current model...

#today I will ride the #NewScientist article wave, (re!)read the constitution of an org that I chair and at least draft my rousing AGM speech and agenda, work on my research, and join a brainstorming session (or two) on-line...
I'd be unconvinced that I'd really managed any of the &…

#today some life/academic admin including for #ReplicationGames, and for the inventors' club. And really really ought to inch some progress on my #research

#today misc life admin today, including bellyacheing at the gas people who cut off our fossil gas supply fully (as wanted) but pointlessly wrecked the lawn etc because they didn't wait for us to be in!
In other news, a #research report has just been published that shows

#today will be catching up on the #NewScientist* article splurge, tweaking heat pump settings again to try to get DHW to run fully from the Enphase, and #buildingModel stuff.
*Sitting nex…

#today will be preparing some stuff for coming meetings tomorrow and in a week, and mentoring some students with their Hackathon presentations...

#today did another tiny bit of #research #buildingModel stuff, joined a #Nesta Webinar, and worked wi…

#today have inched (well, millimetred) forwards on my #research #buildingModel and listened to quite a lot of mod synth and a little house... And our heat pump received its first annual service.…

#today did other half of hackathon including my talk, visited a friend on the way home to discuss deeply tech things and eat falafel and hummus and some fruit that did not get eaten at the hackathon...

#today my latest 'clever' attempt to finesse how my MacBook Air interacts with my off-grid system didn't really work, though is marginally better than it was before:
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-…

On Website Technicals (2026-04)
Tech updates: per-minute Eddi tweaks, Time Machine bug, virtual plug-in solar, merit order, intensity forecast, USB power wrangling...

#today trying again to get stuck into my #buildingModel #research work, this time at my local uni #library

#today I should (I will, I will!) send out notice mailers etc for Kingston Invents and Journal Club, I'm just lacking in spoons for at this moment.
I have had a good long hot bath, been for a walk, done my brief exercises (push-ups and squats).
I have also done a little bit of code and blog stuff.
And I've been watching the

#today before really getting up I have downloaded and archived a copy of all* of my data from a service that I have been using for well over a decade and that anonunced this morning its shutdown. I will get back on my #buildingModel stuff today, and also plan a possible escapade around France f…

#today I have done some tiresome but simple bits of admin (and have a little more to do). I am now torn between responding to a UK gov consultation on non-heat-pump low-carbon home heating and some recreational code optimisation!

#today playing with Ki-CAD's schematic editor for my off-grid system diagram for the the first time in 10 years! 5 major revisions of #KiCAD in that time and it seems to just work! Hurrah!

#today not doing much at all other than watching my tweaked energy system do its thing with occasional cloud and dips in grid frequency...

#today sending out a CfP for the inventors' club, catching up on a wave of #NewScientist articles, some #research

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#today - the joys of being on campus at uni: watching my friend give a practice run of the talk he will be giving in Canada very soon summarising much of what he has been doing for the 3 years that I have known him, then topping up my coffee and catching ~1.5 talks on mass spectrometry!

#today I am not getting a #NewScientist splurge to read - what happened?
I am cheered in my #research by having just found that an apparent test error in the

#today I have some admin chores to work through while feeling a bit diseased *again* (cold number 6 this winter, caught at the panto?)... Tomorrow I go to visit a heat pump research centre...

#today I am off to see Beddington #ERF (Energy Recovery Facility, aka #Energy From #Waste

#today did my part of the new 6-month PhD progress report, and sat with IT support for about half an hour to set up the Journal Club calendar event again after it effectively broke for 3 months!
#nowListening

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World of noise -its time to make some changes in the patch . fine tuning

#today EOM stats and not much else planned...

#today is day 2 of #FOSDEM and the first day after dry-ish January. I meant to combine them with #beerForBreakfast but only just remembered now on about talk number 4!

#today I have had my hot bath, with the house to myself. I am running washing and dishes, and have a pizza about to be ready.
Will finish follow-on from yesterday's admin, and do a bit more #buildingModel stuff.
Then beers this evening...

#today's new (to me) word: #grimpact - unintended bad consequences of positive work intentions...

#today my mentee has submitted the #grantApplication, hurrah!

#today I am at uni, and seem to be kinda sorta leading an informal research group...

#today I wrote up a set of answers to a UK government consultation on 'Energy Smart Appliances' https://www.gov.uk/government/consult…

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#today just finished reviewing and commenting on #lowCarbon #communityEnergy #businessPlan …

#today the #equinox/equilux is nearly here! Some think the engineering of #Stonehenge and #Mnajdra are…

#today having a difficult email exchange re my #research, but also helped my mentee move their #grant #application