Dries Buytaert Reflects on Website Uptime Amid Boston Snowstorm
Dries Buytaert reflects on an unexpected twist in his long-running experiment with a solar-powered personal website. After over 500 days of uninterrupted uptime, Winter Storm Devin, the heaviest in three years, threatens to cut power to his Raspberry Pi setup in Boston.
Writing from a delayed layover in Amsterdam, Dries describes watching his solar dashboard anxiously, seeing the battery level drop below 15% as snow and freezing temperatures prevent recharging. While the site might soon go offline, he highlights the intended lesson of his setup: that some downtime is acceptable for personal, non-critical sites. The post becomes a quiet meditation on control, sustainability, and letting nature take its course — both for his website and his journey home.
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