Electronics

Sunday, October 18, 2026

I’ve been working a lot recently on partkeepr-ng which is a rewrite of PartKeepr. I got it implemented on my Debian box and did some work on the API after getting my original data migrated. It’s going to be really nice; and a modern programming environment opens up possibilities that the old PHP version could no longer deliver. More on all of that later.

Monday, October 12, 2026

Colourful coils of discarded 3D printer filament
3D printer poop

A bright image for a dreary day. It’s Thanksgiving Day in Canada and quite dreary.

I’ve been thinking about chronobiology recently and why I have gradually migrated to going to sleep at 2030-2100 and awakening at 0330 or so. Sometimes I can delay awakening until maybe 0400-0430 but most often I am awake in the early hours of the morning. There is a lot of informaiton on setting the biological clock so that one can get to sleep normally at night. That’s not my problem. I can fall asleep without problem. It’s the early awakening that gets me. I wonder if light exposure at night (instead of avoiding light in the evening hours) would help. Maybe something to experiment with. Possibly increasing the amount of ligh after 1930 or so would help delay the onset of sleepiness.