Seven years ago, I wrote a post about a tiny experiment: publishing my phone's battery status to my website. The updates have quietly kept coming ever since, showing up at https://dri.es/status.
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.
For years, this lived quietly at https://dri.es/status. 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.
Even after seven years, people still mention it from time to time. So I decided to bring it out of hiding.
I added a battery icon to my site's header. It's a dynamically generated SVG that reflects my phone's battery level and charging state.
It's a little goofy. But that's the fun of having a personal website–you get to make it yours.
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