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I’m on an Octopus Go tariff, which gives me electricity at 7.5p/kWh overnight between 23:30 and 05:30. I also commute on an e-bike most days. The obvious thing to do is charge the bike overnight — but doing it well turns out to be more involved than it sounds. What I wanted: Charge automatically during the cheap window Stop at 80% on normal days (better for battery longevity) Charge to 100% the night before a longer ride Not leave the charger running all night every night Simple enough in principle. In practice, nothing I could find actually did this. ...

This site has been a GitHub Pages placeholder for years. A CNAME pointing at a domain, a midnight-themed Jekyll page full of boilerplate text, and nothing else. That changes now. Why Hugo I’ve been meaning to write more for a while — technical notes, opinions, things I keep explaining to people and would rather just link to. The friction of setting something up properly was the blocker, so I finally removed it. ...