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Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat
status.href.cat now reports and notifies me if my home power/internet goes down! The other day, PG&E and my landlord emailed me about a power outage. The elevator system needed a technician to reset it. All the e-key readers in the lobby no longer work. This got me wondering, how long was the power out for?
I added a webhook for my small piece of code, and now my uptime dashboard checks every 5 minutes, including history and stats. I don’t want to write a script, figure out a scheduling system, build out observability, and polish up a functional UI. Hearing PagerDuty’s robotic voice tell you that Misty is a sweet puppy who loves cuddles and digging in mud is one of the most heart-melting sensations you can experience.
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