I wanted to monitor the power usage of our water heater. However, because it draws 3000W, there weren’t a ton of options for what smart plug to use that supported…
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Hello! My name is Thomas Bensmann
and I'm a developer
I’m crazy about two things, technology and nature. When those two are combined, it’s magic!
I work as a CTO at Nettmaker, based in Oslo, Norway. We primarily do web stuff – mostly based on WordPress. Here I strive to help our clients achieve their goals online!
These days my time is spent on web development, fitness and rambling about technology. If you want to reach out to me about any of the above, follow me on Instagram or Twitter.
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DigitalOcean API and CPU metrics from /proc/stat
TL:DR; DigitalOcean API returns /proc/stat data in its CPU metrics API, and here I’ll show you how to convert that to something usefull. After years of developers begging, DigitalOcean opened…
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Review: Sensibo Air
Ever since we decided to get a heat pump in our house, I had my mind set on getting a Sensibo Sky. This is a device that makes your heat…
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Review: Roborock S5 Max – Upgrading my robot vacuum after 6 years
In 2014 I bough our first robot vacuum. It was a Neato XV Signature Pro. This vacuum has been doing it’s job faithfully since then, but recently the screen died…
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Serving WordPress with Caddy 2
I’ve been using Nginx for about a decade, and beyond using Varnish every now and then I haven’t really had the need to use anything else. Well, recently I started…
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Tibber – the Electric power company for the future
Electric power companies, in general, are pretty much the same. Tibber however, is unlike any electricity company I had seen before. They try to utilise the data we get from…
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