I have recently made a significant overhaul to how I handle reading the temperature of my tea water and reporting it reaching the optimal temperature for sencha green 🍵! First, on the Arduino, I refactored it to utilize not a RESTful endpoint but MQTT. The reason for this is that it’s fairly standardized and fast. Also, it’s one less thing I have to maintain. Next, I built, using Python, an adapter to a locally hosted Ntfy instance on an Raspberry PI 4.
The Incompleat Gamester is a play on the Compleat Gamester by Charles Cotton. It is a compendia of games I find interesting. Furthermore, it is incomplete because there are many more games I wish to add eventually. Until this happens, I’ve provided a link to the document here.
So, I drink tea. And by drink, I mean consume. It is at the point that I have a subscription service where sencha green tea is regularly delivered to my house. But do I stop there? No way! In the pursuit of the perfect cup, I have gone to the depths of measuring out the leaves by weight and even ensuring water temp is what I find optimal. However, to do this, I needed a tech solution.
I like the concept behind Swatch Internet Time. It seems fun yet kitsch. It has no real time zone or daylight saving time issues. It is a nice idea, too, as there is a compact notation. However, it has three potential issues: there’s no handling for fractions of a beat, it’s based on where Swatch is located (Biel, Switzerland), and there is no standard for calendar day notation. So, I’ve taken it upon myself to extend the standard to Universal Decimal Time (UDT) to address these perceived issues.
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