By @edent · interview · 5 comments · 1,150 words · read ~1,207 times.
My friend, the superhero Jess Rose, posed an interesting question. So, something lovely. About 6 months ago now @jesslynnrose tweeted the question “are you giving your interview questions to the candidate in advance? If not, why not?” So we started doing that. But what we weren’t doing was asking the candidates if it helped. So […]
Continue reading →By @edent · design work · 5 comments · 350 words · read ~375 times.
I've been building digital products and services since the dial-up era. I spent many years working in the private sector. Good design is seen as a necessity. Customers will switch to another service which is easier to use, has a better app, or offers a nicer experience. I now work in the public sector, where […]
Continue reading →By @edent · api fronius solar · 700 words · read ~285 times.
I'm hooking my solar panels up to the Internet! Installation Inverter API & Code My solar panels have an API! It tells me the total amount of power they've generated each day. But there's a small problem... I have panels on the East and West sides of my roof. My solar inverter has two MPPT […]
Continue reading →By @edent · code fronius python solar · 2 comments · 200 words · read ~190 times.
I'm hooking my solar panels up to Twitter! Installation Inverter Fronius provide a comprehensive API guide - I wish more companies did this. There are lots of unofficial libraries in a variety of different languages. I've written this code in Python3. This is a general tidy-up of the code I wrote several years ago. Here's […]
Continue reading →By @edent · fronius solar · 550 words · read ~263 times.
Having solar panels on your roof is great - but you need something to turn their wicked DC electricity into pure and godly AC. This bit of kit is called an "inverter". It's a big box which lives in your roof working magic. This is what ours looks like: We chose a Fronius Primo inverter […]
Continue reading →By @edent · solar · 3 comments · 350 words · read ~889 times.
A few years ago, we installed solar panels on our roof in Oxford - I've enjoyed blogging about them. I've released open data from them, inspected them with a drone, and measured what happened during a solar eclipse. They've even been on the BBC! But the best thing I did, was release this little Twitter […]
Continue reading →By @edent · meta work · 700 words · read ~282 times.
At a recent Staff Away-Day, we were encouraged to write a "Manual of Me". A quick summary of the general ways that you like to work. I don't spend much time on introspection and I found it disturbingly personal. So here's mine for you to enjoy! Excuse my crappy drawing and even crappier spelling. Here's […]
Continue reading →By @edent · security twitter · 200 words · read ~1,576 times.
Once in a while, I'll see someone Tweet a "link" to file:///C:/users/... - that's the Microsoft Windows way of representing a location on a filesystem. Usually this means that the user has tried to either drag 'n' drop something, or copied a link from their file explorer. There are some (mild) infosec risks you should […]
Continue reading →By @edent · scam · 150 words · read ~202 times.
*sigh* These scams are really common. And pretty easy to pull off. Renting an expensive sports car for a day is relatively cheap. Drive it to some fancy locations, wear a couple of rented designer clothes, perhaps pay for a pretty model to pose as your girlfriend, take a load of photos and you can […]
Continue reading →By @edent · a11y accessibility covid19 · 3 comments · 250 words · read ~281 times.
Dark times, my friends. Dark times. It's up to all of us to pull together. And that means making vital health information accessible. One of the easiest things you can do is make your Twitter content accessible is by adding descriptions to your images. Go to twitter.com/settings/accessibility and turn on "Compose image descriptions". Here's why. […]
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