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Fix for Error E1 on Tuya Zigbee TRV Smart Radiator Valves

Tuya Smart TRVs unfortunately suffer from a design flaw where they will produce an apparently unresolvable error after being stored. Luckily this is an easy fix!

Living in a Building Site: The Over-Development of London's Housing Estates

London's housing crisis necessitates inventive solutions to build new social housing. But have they gone too far at Antony and Roderick Houses?

To Escape the Heat, Just Apply Suncream?

Heatwave precautions are a meme. Is it really more important to wear your suncream when outside on a hot day than a cool day? Of course not, but the advice to do so is copied across the media and society nonetheless. Maybe we can do better.

Running With The Foxes

A short post sharing my feelings about the city.

YouTube Comment Spam and the Linking Non-Link

As somebody who quite often scrolls down to the comments section on YouTube (for my sins), I'm often faced with the innovative tactics that spammers use to get their comments through Google's automated filtering and detection systems.

A Thought - Maybe More Money is not More Better

Nobody understands the economy. But more money is more better, right? Well, maybe. But an economy cannot be based on the creation of money alone.

Bottle Deposits are Bad Policy

Bottle Deposits are a popular environmentalist policy worldwide. However, they are a bad policy that imposes outweight costs on society while barely helping the environment.

What are you really doing when you fill in an hCaptcha

It's not clear exactly why hCaptcha gives the challenges that it does, but it's certainly more interesting than you might think to take a closer look and try and work out how it all ticks.

New Things of 2021

It's getting to be the end of 2021 - so it's a good time to look through some of the things I bought over the year, and reflect on how they've turned out. Some of them have been rubbish of course, but there are a number of things that have turned out to be very useful, or to have brought me joy in some other way, and made them into a list in the hope somebody else will find it helpful.

My IDE Broke

Last week my IDE broke. I tried to fix it and failed, and then I realised I was a failure as a software developer.
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