Thursday, August 30, 2018

My first NuGet package! Kritner.SolarEstimate

I published my first NuGet package (https://www.nuget.org/packages/Kritner.SolarProjection/)!  Kristen and I recently were considering (and have since financed) a 17,000 kw/year solar array, on the back of our house - https://photos.app.goo.gl/gZzp7DnkeEcg1zQMA.  In the process of deciding whether or not to go for it, I started on some spreadsheets, to try and figure out when it would seemingly be "less expensive to have the solar panels, than our normal energy bill".

With that spreadsheet I thought that it seemed like a good opportunity to try out a few new things I hadn't - additional docker work, a NuGet package, some basic angular, typescript, more unit testing.  So over the past few weeks after dinner, I've been tinkering around with my website and produced solar-projection.  It started out all contained within my github repo of https://github.com/Kritner/KritnerWebsite, but I needed to figure out how to start playing around with NuGet, so now I have the core "solar projection" logic in its own package - its repo is located at https://github.com/Kritner/Kritner.SolarProjection.

The site is not currently pretty, but it does (hopefully accurately) tell me the information I wanted to know - solar panels seem to work out great for us, as long as we can get 90-100% power generation from the panels (and they're guaranteed for 90% of the 17k).

I hope to be able to continue exploring angular, to make it a bit prettier with perhaps some charting, and datagridding, and perhaps turn it into a stupid little app I could maybe make a few cents off of?  Currently the site only estimates ***my*** solar panel array, but it should be a quick change to allow some user inputs so others could use it too.

Oh! and if anyone's interested, the package could be used to run the numbers before I get the user inputs in (or you could do it for me? :D).  The solar array was installed via Vivint Solar, if you're interested in getting a system, I get referral bonuses, get at me!

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Looking for recommendations - .net core compatible dependency mapping

I'm going to be looking into converting a lot of our projects into NuGet packages, and it is a large solution, so ideally I'd be able to map the current (pre NuGet conversion) project dependencies.

I'll be doing some research into potential extensions I can add to visual studio to do this, but if anyone has something in mind, suggestions are appreciated!

Something like this, but on a much larger project scale:


Monday, August 27, 2018

Update on keto

Hey, it's been like a month and a half since starting keto.  I'm down to 170, down to 20% body fat (depending on the day), and I haven't measured my belly yet, but two notches tighter on the belt.  Holy heckin gosh!

This is my first post since I was introduced to dev.to (I imported... most? of my previous blog posts).  This seems like a pretty cool platform, hopefully I'll be able to make more time for blogging (I think this is like the 5th time I've said this)

Monday, July 16, 2018

Started keto

Started keto with Kristen yesterday. Let's see how this goes!

I think I'll miss noodles most of all, but these fat bombs are hella good.

Started 71.5 inches, 185 pounds, 22.5% body fat according to my scale.