Andrew Betts

When I rennovated my house, there were some big leaded glass doors that I didn't have a use for. Rather than throwing them out, I made one into a desk - using a LOT of epoxy resin.

I am a houseplant serial killer, but I want lots of plants and I want them to stay alive. Plants are annoying though and need different amounts of water at different intervals. Let's build a watering system with ESPHome.

My sister Emily got married recently and I wanted to make something for the event. There are apps to let people pool photos in a 'photo wall' type thing but I wanted to do better - no registration, no app to install, and let's judge the photos using AI to create some competition!

Images on the web often cause layout shift when they load, but setting width and height leaves images unresponsive to flexible page widths. I want to throw any shaped image into a blog post, have it display well, be laid out correctly BEFORE it loads, not waste data and let users download it in high definition if they want to. Can this be done?

I have been making this corner of the web my home since 2002, and for most of that time, Wordpress has been the engine powering the site. It's time for a major change - here's why I'm moving to Astro.