Nic Wise - The Chicken Coop (Page 10)

West Coast Wandering. (2019)

26 Apr 2019 8 min read

Getting there As is often the case, getting there is half the fun. Or half the un-fun in this case. Before we even left - about 4 weeks before - a huge storm

The previous blog post [https://fastchicken.co.nz/2019/04/26/west-coast-wandering-2019/], about the West Coast, was done end-to-end on my iPad with an external keyboard. This is something I’ve been trying

See a pontoon. Swim to a pontoon. Jump from a pontoon

19 Jan 2019 1 min read

A wise couple, Alice and Ross [https://www.thedolectures.com/talks/alice-and-ross-beese-on-the-road], once told me: > If there is a river, or even the sea, go jump in it We don't

Getting started with Github Actions

15 Jan 2019 4 min read

A while back, Github announced Github Actions [https://github.com/features/actions/], which is a containerised platform for running things when you do something in Github, like make a PR, comment, etc. On

Upgrading Sonoff Switches with Tasmota

13 Jan 2019 1 min read

As I've written before [https://fastchicken.co.nz/2018/06/24/more-iot-switch-fun-with-sonoff-and-tasmota/], I have a few of the 16A Sonoff TH16 switches [https://www.itead.cc/smart-home/sonoff-th.html] around the