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My phone's battery has been blogging for 7 years | Dries Buytaert

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Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.

Seven years ago, I wrote a post about a tiny experiment: publishing my phone's battery status to my website. The updates have quietly continued ever since, appearing at https://dri.es/sensors/phone. Every 20 minutes or so, my phone sends its battery level and charging state to a REST endpoint on my Drupal site. The exact timing depends on iOS background scheduling, which has a mind of its own. For years, this lived quietly at https://dri.es/sensors/phone. I never linked to it outside the original blog post, so it felt like a forgotten corner of my site. Still working, but mostly invisible.…

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