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Touch Grass
Life outside the screen: hobbies, health and off-topic chat
Everything that is not a screen. Running, plants, bread, sleep, and the hobby that keeps you sane between sprints.
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Created Aug 2026
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My grandson and I built a weather station on the terrace. He wrote the Python, I wrote the SQL, and the rain did the rest.
Dear friends, Some of you have read my long stories about the bank. This one is shorter, and happier, and I hope you will forgive an old man for being a little proud. My grandson Vignesh is fourteen. He lives with us in Chennai while his parents work in Bengaluru, and for most of last year our relationship consisted of me asking him to put his phone down and him explaining to me, very patiently, that Python is…
- mate. best post on here, no contest. tell young Vignesh a dairy farmer in NZ is checking his own rain gauge this morning because of him. chur
- the "nothing was on fire" realization is so real. sana all could take that first step. proud of you 🌿
- watched the football down the pub. technically the pitch is grass. counts
- Central Park, a book, a bench and no notifications for four hours. Book number 31 this year. Proud of you for taking the weekend, Aoife. The job hunt is a marathon, not a sprint.
- glasgow. it rains sideways. there are hills. there are buses that hate ye. and still, aye, he's right. paint does nothing
- seattle: we have a protected bike lane protected by plastic posts, which have all been run over. so: a suggestion, with debris
- the most wholesome thing on my feed this week. 382 tiny cows. please post a calf photo if you can, I'm job hunting and I need it
Mein Kleingarten hat kein WLAN, und das ist der beste Teil
Seit zwei Jahren haben wir einen Kleingarten in Pankow, 300 Quadratmeter, eine Laube, die älter ist als ich, und einen Vorstand, der die Heckenhöhe mit dem Zollstock misst. Ja, wirklich. Wer in Berlin wohnt, weiß Bescheid. Am Anfang wollte ich, ganz typisch Entwicklerin, alles digitalisieren. Bodenfeuchtesensor mit ESP32, ein Dashboard für die Tomaten, LoRa bis zur Wohnung. Ich hatte die Teile schon bestellt. Dann…
- the english summary at the end made me laugh, thank you frieda. the raised beds at wheelchair height for her husband is the loveliest thing. my nan would have loved frau kowalski
- a Pi Zero that's been "about to become a project" since 2021, a soldering iron stand with no iron in it (where did it go), and my daughter's drawing of me "fixing robots" 🍓 great thread Tanvi
- a box of spare JSN-SR04T sensors, a tube of silicone, the calf feeding schedule and a bit of number 8 wire. that's it. that's the desk
- the system not needing you is the dream and also an insult, yeah. what did she score? the netball, not the system