Chris Ruppel

@rupl
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Sup! I'm into gardening 🪴, mycology 🍄, sustainable energy 🌞, and science-fiction 📚. Immigrant living in Germany 🥨. I make a living building on the open web 🌐.

I oppose racism, sexism, fascism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and capitalism. Call me out if I'm acting otherwise.

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Late last year many residents of our building formed a neighbor-owned company in order to add a solar array to our roof! A few days ago they got the final panels installed. It’s not turned on yet, but seeing this much progress made me so proud! 🤩

#SolarPanels #SolarEnergy

Made it 2000 days just in time for my 1yr sub to expire. I’m very proud, but sadly I won’t take it further since Duolingo are replacing human workers with genAI. I got a great start speaking Spanish and am thankful for it.

This year’s balcony harvest. I’m quite proud with how they came out!

#balcony #gardening #tomato #tomatoes

We had such a chilly, radiant afternoon that our west-facing balcony was cranking out 20W more than the inverter is rated for 😎 #balkonsolar #solarpanels #solarpower

I used to enjoy posting cocktail pics on Insta but it’s time to try a new venue. And why not start with #negroniweek and furthermore buck the template with something more up my alley:

White Rum Negroni

1 oz Rhum Barbancourt 8
1 oz Dolin Blanc
1 oz Luxardo Bitter Bianco

Stir and strain over a big rock.

#cocktails #mixology #negroni #rum #vermouth #amaro

#LazyWeb, in a #Drupal base-theme we have #CSS Vars in a top-level file as config. One of them is a relative URL to logo which gets output by a file nested several directories away.

Although theme folder structure is predictable, it's impossible to know where the theme itself will exist, hence the relative URL. It worked until Drupal aggregation was enabled, and suddenly the sub-theme CSS file which *uses* the var is in a different location. Logo gone. Ideas?

Reduced example w/o agg:

I mounted the meter near our window so we can check it from inside. After three days we are producing about 20% of our 2022 average consumption.. and that’s just two panels!!

#balkonsolar #balkonkraftwerk #solarpanels #freiburg @balkonsolar

Yesterday I finally hooked up a meter to our balcony solar panels 🌞 Sunny days just got that much more beautiful!

#balkonsolar #balkonkraftwerk #solarpanels #freiburg

My first plumbing job 🔧💦

while we were out of town, the P trap somehow slipped off the sink because the pipe wasn’t long enough to begin with and they weren’t aligned. Bought a new one, hacksawed to fit, and added some teflon plumber’s tape before securing the two slipnuts.