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When looking at website analytics, you may notice you can often see where a visitor has come from. How does this work? »

Following on from my graph of the summer heat wave that afflicted large parts of Europe, I thought I’d expand on the increasingly extreme swings in our famously changeable British weather and the implications for our energy infrastructure. »

It seems like a distant memory now but we had a brief heatwave in the UK last month. Here is a graph of the week starting the 22nd of July from a Bluetooth Low Energy temperature and humidity sensor connected to Home Assistant running on a low power Raspberry Pi 3A+. »

You may have previously used SmtpClient to send email in .NET. However, that API is now obsolete and the current recommend method is to use the MailKit library. »

For this post in my series on performing CI with Azure DevOps I’ll be covering build pipelines using YAML code and why this is better than the old manual method. »

The Climate Fixathon started today and I’m one of the judges, as I’m involved with Impact Makers and volunteered. One of the other IM projects is Offset Earth (a subscription service to fund climate crisis solutions) and I animated an SVG file for them. »

The Climate Fixathon starts this Friday (it runs between the 2nd and 30th of August) and I’m excited to be one of the judges. »

This was going to be a post about how to perform CI builds on Azure DevOps but there can be so many issues just hosting your code that I thought I should expand upon that first. »