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Back in 2016 I mentioned that I started tracking my laptop battery statistics on my then new MBP. Well, now that laptop has reached EOL, with its batteries getting swollen and the fan often running a bit fast, probably due to all the dust inside it. While I didn’t have any complaints about the overall performance of my trusty old laptop, after 5-6 years of everyday use, I felt it was time to upgrade. And it didn’t feel safe with the batteries swelling either! I might look into refurbishing it, if the cost of new batteries aren’t too ridiculous. ...

Since late 2011 I’ve been working on distributed computing platforms, where software that runs across more than one machine is running as what we’d call a cluster. Now, as I focus more on blockchain and DLT, a lot of the approaches to computing are similar. A lightweight version of the challenges with working on distributed systems can be found when working on software that uses multiple threads to do concurrent computing. Things can quickly get very ugly if you do not know how to approach the challenge. ...

Some time ago I read “The (De-) evolution of My Laptop Battery“. At the time I had an old (2008 model I believe) MacBook Pro, on it’s first (or second) battery, and that battery was already heavily degraded. Because of that I saw no need to start logging the current battery capacity, but I made a note of doing that as soon as I got myself a new laptop. So, little over a year ago, when I retired by old and faithful for a brand new MacBook Pro, one of the first things I did was to set up a cron job that every half hour stores the current battery stats to a local file when turned on. ...