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My phone's battery has been blogging for 7 years by Dries Buytaert, 13 April 2025:
Every 20 minutes or so, my phone sends its battery level and charging state to a REST endpoint on my Drupal site. Timing depends on iOS background scheduling, which has a mind of its own.
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It's a little goofy. But that's the fun of having a personal website–you get to make it yours.
This reminds me of my experiments with recording my GPS position automatically on my website. Ultimately I found it less useful than I'd thought it would be, mainly because it's often the times that I most want tracks that the thing failed to maintain a GPS fix. It was fun though, to have everything together in one database.
I don't think I'd bother tracking battery level, but I guess there are other sensors on the phone. Would a database of acceleration events be interesting?
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