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Freedom as in free trash
So I just finished another little project: my new entrance ladder. Ok, let's say it's finished except for a layer of paint, as always. All paint jobs pile up for when I have no urgent needs and will...
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A proposal for Nepal: Autonomous electric footpath vehicles
Over the recent months, I spent quite some hours thinking about adequate logistics systems for rural, hilly Nepal. Especially for the villages not having road connections for now – is getting "the...
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Living in the forest and paying with trash
Good news for my truck, it got MOT again ("TÜV") so I can move around a bit. Used the opportunity for a nice little tour. Including: buying some parts for my "living space" in a hardware store;...
View ArticleAgainst human trafficking in Europe: So much to do
A friend with a big heart for victims of human trafficking asked me to identify opportunities for helping trafficked women in Europe. As my (initial) results can be useful for others as well, I publish...
View ArticleIdea collection: Electric wheelchair hacking
Just a quick brain dump: more and less useful things you can do with the components of an old electric wheelchair (usually two 24 V DC geared electric motors of 200-400 W each, a motor controller, and...
View ArticleSelecting a notebook for 4k video editing
For a friend, I recently researched which notebook can be recommended for Ultra HD video editing (4K UHD, 3840 × 2160 px). Here is, in short, what we found. First priority: Intel Core i7-7xxx CPU,...
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Vanlife Updates (May / June 2017)
Some pictures of living in the truck over the last month (2017-05-03 to 2017-06-08). #vanlife (Click picture to see a larger version.)
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Software for agile, task-based collaboration
At the company I co-founded, we have tried for quite some time to find a collaboration software solution that works for young, free-range, independent workers. We’re settling on Dynalist for now –...
View ArticleHow to create @mentions with auto-suggest and notifications in Drupal 7?
Usually, you can have mentions with e-mail notifications using the Drupal mentions module, or mentions with auto-suggest using the Drupal ckeditor_mentions module, but not both. But it turns out you...
View ArticleHow to earn from excess electricity or computing power
Because I live in a truck, in summer I have the interesting problem of excess (practically free) photovoltaics electricity. The same can happen in an off-grid home or a grid-connected home in a...
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Celebrating Final Red Cabbage Day
While I don’t exactly live in a food truck, I live in a truck and I cook food. Here’s a random selection of the dishes that I happen to have photos of. Cooking something. Cooking something else....
View ArticleThe banality of consumption
Life in today’s capitalist societies is far from great. It’s full of meaningless bullshit work, full of laws and other constraints, and all of that in the face of multiple ecological crises that...
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