Techmore

Techmore is a personal technical notebook and project hub for F.I.R.E., home energy systems, solar modeling, and practical infrastructure notes.

Live site: techmore.github.io

Start Here

• Energy monitoring hub: project context, measured loads, and system decisions
• Solar option summary: side-by-side build choices and modeled tradeoffs
• Solar offset calculator: quick production and payback estimates
• Will Prowse 2026 model: battery, inverter, panel, runtime, and rescue-charging model
• Pecron backup plan: a separate portable-storage and critical-load path
• Repo directory: other public Techmore projects

What Is In This Repo

• F.I.R.E. notes and reading paths
• Energy-monitoring data and home-system guides
• Solar options with costs, production, runtime, circuit coverage, and charging paths
• ERV, heat-pump, networking, UniFi, EV, and general infrastructure notes

Stack

• Jekyll with the system Ruby gem
• Tailwind CSS via CDN
• Vanilla inline JavaScript
• Google Fonts: Inter and Instrument Serif
• No Gemfile, package.json, or frontend build pipeline

Local Authoring

Install Jekyll if it is not already available:

gem install jekyll

Run the site locally:

jekyll serve --livereload

Local development runs at http://localhost:4000.

Important Notes

• Do not run refresh.sh locally. It is a server-side deployment script that can destroy local files.
• Generated Jekyll output belongs in _site/ and is ignored by Git.
• Pages use only this front matter shape:

---
layout: default
title: Page Title - Techmore
---

Project Structure

• _includes/head.html: shared <head>, Tailwind config, and fonts
• _includes/nav.html: shared navigation
• _includes/footer.html: shared footer
• _layouts/default.html: default page shell
• _config.yml: Jekyll configuration
• index.html: home page and F.I.R.E. feed
• pages/energy-monitoring.html: energy hub
• pages/energy-monitoring/: solar, battery, and energy-system detail pages
• pages/phase1_erv_guide.html: ERV guide
• pages/phase2_heatpump_guide.html: heat-pump guide
• pages/books.html: books landing page

Conventions

• Group Tailwind classes by layout, background/border, typography, then interaction.
• Keep page-specific CSS in inline <style> blocks where the repo already expects it.
• Keep JavaScript inline and use vanilla JS; prefer var for new additions.
• Prefer Tailwind olive-* classes or oklch() values instead of hex colors.