Since switching to the Octopus Agile tariff I have been saving about 35% a month on my electricity bill. I am not a very heavy user, and I don't have an electric vehicle or house battery. But I don't need to use much electricity between 16:00 and 19:00 which I think gives me the biggest saving. I al...

With the price of everything going up I felt like I needed to start tracking what I spend money on a bit better, so I looked for some open source software which would help me do that. The best looking one for me was HomeBank. After manually entering transactions for a couple of weeks I decided I s...

After playing around with exportify, I decided to find out how the Spotify API works. Of course, a Python module already exists called Spotipy that helps you connect to the Web API.

This can easily be installed with pip install spotipy and has good documentation here

I wanted to see if I co...

While I was going for a walk today I randomly started wondering if it was possible to download a Spotify playlist as a text file or CSV file. It didn't take long for me to find the Exportify project which can be used to make a backup copy of your Spotify playlists. It was easy to get it up and run...

I recently bought some cheap LED backlights to replace the old one from my screen. My old one had a simple switch to just turn it on and off. All the new ones I could find seem to be multicoloured and remote control. I ended up buying some made by Nexillumi for £10 on Amazon which were bluetooth con...