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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 3 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.648s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
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ktzar ◴[28 Apr 23 08:51 UTC] No.35738995[source]▶
I built a website to track the generation of electricity in Spain since I couldn't find a single page from the official provider that contains all the information I wanted to look at at a glance. https://energy.antizone.site/ It scrapes different pieces of data at different intervals.
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1. grilledcheez ◴[28 Apr 23 09:16 UTC] No.35739126[source]▶
Very cool! Would be awesome to have something like this for more countries (maybe the entire European network)
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2. rjmunro ◴[28 Apr 23 09:43 UTC] No.35739279[source]▶
For the UK I use: https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ It has a page for France: https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/france/
3. bullen ◴[29 Apr 23 06:03 UTC] No.35750442[source]▶
Sweden: https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kontrollrummet/

If you go back a few days you can see the emergency stop of Forsmark 1&2.

First brown out I have experienced in Sweden!

Nothing broke, the computers ran. The incandescent lightbulbs where down to 50% for 2 seconds and the humidifyer rebooted.

For north europeean prices next winter will be interesting: https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/en/Market-data1/Dayahead/Area-... (click chart and week)