Updates to the HelloESP project.
Refreshed the photo carousel. The current framed shot now shows the device with the DS3231 and nameplate added over the past couple weeks, with the April 19 mounting-day shot kept as the second slide. New boot video too: sharper, tighter cut, no audio track. Hero image on the GitHub repo got the same treatment.
/chronicle got a few quality-of-life updates. Today's in-progress entry shows above the archive, refreshing as the chip writes more of the day. Filter chips slice the archive to just milestones, records, anomalies, busy days, or quiet days. Each entry has a share button, and arrow keys step between days on entry pages. Guestbook translation got smarter too: better source-language detection so…
Chronicle entries now align to the chip's local timezone instead of UTC, so each day's entry covers the chip's actual day from where it's running. The chip also notices when one of its sensors stops working, retires it, and writes a chronicle entry about the loss. Behind the scenes, archive folders moved to a year-grouped layout so the chip can run for decades without slowing down. Firmware 1.4…
Added /chronicle: a daily entry the chip writes about itself. Auto-generated from sensor readings, visitors, and weather, archived from today onward. Each midnight the day's snapshot freezes into a permanent entry. Five starter templates pick the right shape for the day (busy, quiet, anomaly, milestone, generic), and there's a permalink for every entry.
Snake got its own page. Same game, with two leaderboards now: today's top scores and the all-time top ten. Strong scores cross to all-time on their own. Each top entry has a watch button that plays back the actual game. Past quarters move to a Hall of Fame archive so the leaderboard stays fresh.
The site can now track its own electricity use with an optional smart plug. The homepage shows live wattage and lifetime energy, plus cost and CO2 if you set your grid rate. Outdoor weather card grew with air quality, UV index, atmospheric CO2, dewpoint, and pressure trend, and the icons now match the time of day.
Added a DS3231 real-time clock module on the breadboard. Boot logs and timestamps are correct right away instead of being wrong for a few seconds until NTP syncs. History page got a year-grouped collapsible layout that stays readable as archives pile up over time. New /about page with the short version of the project story for casual visitors.
Snake now has a global leaderboard. Top 10 with 3-letter initials, shared across the 404, offline, and timeout pages. Anti-cheat is server-side: the worker hands out a seed at game start, you submit your move log on game over, and the worker replays it to confirm the score. Only way onto the board is actually playing.
Public relaunch on a fresh ESP32. Full rebuild: air quality sensors, historical charts, guestbook with moderation, admin panel, OLED dashboard, daily off-site backups, and a Cloudflare Worker relay so it can live on WiFi without a tunnel.