A Michael Friis Production
This week I moved the networking in our condo from ASUS AiMesh to Ubiquiti UniFi, and UniFi is a lot better. Some observations: For context, we live in a rambling 2000 sqft victorian condo in a dense neighborhood in San Francisco with lots of other WiFi transmitters close by. The walls are lath-and-plaster (although not [ ]
I’m in the market for a new monitor setup for my Macs. I want one or two “retina” resolution displays and 5k 27” seems to be the best format for that. A nice-to-have would be fast integrated USB hub so I can attach high-performance peripherals like 2.5 Gbps USB-C NICs to the monitor and plug [ ]
We now have 3 kids ages 0 to 4 and have travelled extensively with them. In this post I’ll cover our motivations for doing so and share what tips and tricks I’ve accumulated over the past four years. As we’ve gotten more children, the trips have only become more arduous. I remember our first trip [ ]
You’re reading part of a series of posts covering all the projects I’ve done for our Lower Haight victorian house. I was going to write a post about assorted drawer and shelving projects, but it turned out that this one bedroom drawer project was big enough to warrant its own post. The previous post on [ ]
We moved into our two-level victorian condo in Lower Haight in 2017 and I really like it. I’ve made a number of improvements and built assorted furniture for the condo in the years since. Some of these projects I’ve written about in separate posts, but I wanted to build a complete catalogue. I’m also adding [ ]
Installing 220-240V electrical outlet in kitchen and modifying euro kettle to work with it.
This is the first of two posts about heating water in our kitchen. This post is about the tankless water heater I installed under our kitchen sink. The second post will cover how to make electric kettles fast in the US. My starting point is our 130-year old San Francisco victorian house. The water heater [ ]
We recently replaced our gas range with an induction one and it s lot better. My main motivation was energy savings (we have solar, so electricity is free ) and improved indoor climate. I don t want to get into the whole gas-stove culture war and I m personally open to the possibility that burning gas inside may not [ ]
The blog you re reading is hosted on a server that sits on the floor in a closet in our condo in San Francisco. You re accessing it over my very pedestrian home internet connection (bizarrely, getting fast residential internet in San Francisco is hard). I don t have a static IP address so DNS is resolved using [ ]
This weekend I installed a Tesla Wall Connector and a Neurio W2 Power Meter and configured them for dynamic load management. Dynamic load management means that the EV charger will dial down the charge rate from 48A whenever the power meter detects that total load is close to the maximum load of the electrical service [ ]