I annotated this chart to show the huge gap between the curtailed (wasted) renewable power at midday in Australia and the storage available to make use of it. Hence the recently announced Solar Sharer Scheme, which will give Australians three hours of free power in the middle of the day.
This is an easy recipe that can be a side dish as half an onion, or the main meal with more halves and the addition of some extra grains/pasta/etc to soak up the sauce. No animal products or gluten required.
Serves 3-6 (half or a whole onion) and costs about AU$2 (as of November 2025).
Based on the “Baked Onions” recipe in an old Family Circle Kids Microwave Cooking book I had as a kid.
To save US$20 per year on a domain name for a 20 year old joke, I’m moving the three sentence index page at http://didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.net/ to a subdomain of this site, http://didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.dylanleigh.net/ . There’s a redirect in place at the old site for now, but I’ll probably let the domain expire when it is due for renewal.
I haven’t used Javascript/ECMAscript much before - did learn the basics in my CompSci undergrad, and used a little JSX when at Kogan, but I was never that into frontend dev stuff. Trying to revise it today, I wrote this JS implementation of the “Let’s Make a Deal” game at the center of the “Monty Hall problem“.
The old OpenIntents shopping list app I have used on my Android phones since around 2011 is no longer available on either the Google Play Store or the F-Droid FOSS Android Repository. I’ve tried several alternatives since getting a new phone earlier this year but much prefer the old OI app so was quite annoyed that it’s gone.
After a few months of struggling with inferior alternatives, today I realised I could simply pull the app off an old phone with ADB and put it on the new one.
The Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is a commandline tool for debugging Android apps, but can also be used for backups, file transfer from PC to/from phone, a remote shell from PC to phone and other purposes.
Alternative title: How Brad Battin, Sussan Ley and David Crisafulli inspired me to learn Matplotlib at 1am
Electricity Generation, Australian National Energy Market, Friday 26 and Saturday 27 September 2025:
