Emelka's garden 🌿
A small corner of the internet for things I find interesting. Not a blog, more like a garden. Notes get planted as seedlings, grow when I learn more, and get tended over time. Nothing here is useful. That's the point.
Planted for Ahrim, who asked what I'd do with a server.
🌱 seedling: a rough idea · 🌿 budding: taking shape · 🌳 evergreen: fairly settled
The clock that listens to satellites
Ahrim runs a stratum 1 NTP server on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a cheap USB GPS. Why it can feel worse than a normal NTP server, and how to fix it.
🌱The Spanish latte isn't very Spanish
Espresso, milk and condensed milk. Spain has cousins of it, but the "Spanish latte" as a name grew up elsewhere.
🌿Why rain smells nice
The smell has a name (petrichor), a main ingredient made by soil bacteria, and a delivery system made of tiny bubbles.
🌿Pahala is a fruit
Many everyday Malay words came from Sanskrit, and some have travelled a long way from their original meanings.
🌿If I fits, I sits
Why cats squeeze into boxes, bowls and laundry baskets, including boxes that don't really exist.