Backyard Birds: Building My Own Dashboard on Top of Local Bird Data

Backyard Birds: Building My Own Dashboard on Top of Local Bird Data
A few weeks back I wrote about replacing my Haikubox with a four-camera local pipeline feeding BirdNET into TimescaleDB. The data was beautiful. The dashboards were not. Grafana is great for whether the heat pump cycled overnight or how warm the coop got. It is not great for what showed up in the yard for the first time this week, or what the dawn chorus actually sounds like in order. I kept tweaking panels and…

Information Management Update

Information Management Update
Several of my goal breaks were oriented towards sorting out my tools and processes: My note taking had become splintered between OneNote, Apple Notes and many text files. I need a single source and it needs to be something that isn't difficult to integrate with other systems. Tasks were mostly in Apple Tasks now, but that's because my projects are entirely personal. I didn't want to use iCloud for work tasks when I move to…