Look! It's yet another blog from the lockdown!

Through months of physical and mental inactivity following the Covid lock-down, I have decided that it would be best to document my future use of time with blog posts in order to validate how little I'm doing with my much free time inside the house. 

The cyber-security company I work for has recently reverted a cost-saving decision to have a 4-day work-week due to the panic of a Covid fallout which I can only assume hasn't happened (yet). With that one extra day per week previously, I have been managing to sneak in baking one or two sour-dough loaf each week, some focaccia on the side and maybe a flapjack or a disappointingly non-fudgy brownie. Although it may look like I have been trying part of the national baking craze (or flour crisis), this was simply a way to survive the months of March to June without going to the shop for bread.

Looks like Bread, Smells like Bread and Taste like Bread

Apart from trying to survive the lockdown, I have also spent a bit of my weekend on my nerdy projects: from reviving my energy monitor - with sensor data sent over a small nrf24l01 to a RPi (the original model with serial number in the 1500s - and yes still functioning with the occasional SD card corruption); to setting up a PiHole resolving over DNSCrypt for the home, although I still haven't solved the problem that my Android phone always wants to switch to mobile data due to these resolution errors.I have also played with some millimetre wave sensors which are really promising in terms of range and accuracy (if you have the compute to handle the data.) 

I'm sure I will write about these and other past projects in future posts! That's it from my first sitrep.