Update on Indoor Hydroponics Cherry Tomatoes: More Fruits!

A few months ago, I posted about my first experience in growing cherry tomatoes and how I started growing them indoors again.

The Food of Paros Island, Greece

When we visited Greece last October 2025, I was only expecting to be by the beach again and hopefully eat a lot of seafood. Seafood is expensive and doesn't have much variety in Austria for geographical reasons. I lived most of my life in the Philippines where you

What I Learned During Unemployment

Last May, I submitted my resignation for a previous job. I wanted to quit a long time ago but kept convincing myself to stay because the job market is terrible and Austria is in its third year of recession. Without being fluent in German, my options were even more limited.

My First Time Growing Potatoes

Some time around March, I started growing potatoes in grow bags. I'm not sure about the variety of the potatoes but they were small and tasted the best out of all the potato varieties I've eaten in this country so I decided to grow them -

Indoor to Outdoor, Hydroponics to Soil: Basil

Too Many Plants, So Little Space I have several basil plants growing under grow lights inside the apartment. Like most people, I put several seeds per one grow sponge to make sure at least one of them germinates. Usually, you clip off the weaker seedlings and leave just one but

Growing Water Spinach Under a Computer Table

Water spinach, also known as Morning Glory or Kangkong, is a staple vegetable where I was from. While there's a different variety of spinach available in Austria, I prefer the taste of water spinach. It's mild, crunchy, and has a bit of a nutty taste. I

Eggplant Omelet

This dish is simple, healthy, and doesn't require too many ingredients. It's not the most beautiful looking dish out there but it tastes really good, often eaten with ketchup. Ingredients: - eggplant (one eggplant per egg) - egg - salt - pepper - oil Instructions: 1.

Making My Own Fertiliser Using The Bokashi Method

After I bought my first hydroponics kit, I stopped buying most of its parts except for the nutrients. I've always been curious how I can make the nutrients myself. I also wondered why when planting in soil, it seems to be the default to buy a bag of

Is Your Model Hallucinating? Detecting LLM Hallucinations with DeepEval

The first time I had a project involving artificial intelligence as we know it today, ChatGPT wasn't a household name yet. I was one of two software engineers working with a group of data scientists. If we wanted to extract specific details (e.g. names, addresses, etc.) from

Create Your Own Cooking Assistant Using Perplexity AI

I've been using Perplexity AI a lot lately. For many topics, it has become my default search engine. Instead of scrolling through a list of links from traditional search engines, it's just more convenient to have all the information compiled and presented to me in a

My Experiences From Trying To Grow Cherry Tomatoes

First Experience (Outdoors) The first time I grew cherry tomatoes was in 2020 during the pandemic on the balcony of my condo unit in Metro Manila, Philippines. After killing a thyme plant from a grow kit, I did some research on other ways to grow plants and one of the

My Introduction to Cloning

This plant was given to me by our landlord when we moved into the new apartment in Autumn. He requested us to keep it alive over the Winter since he lives in the basement. There were holes in the leaves and I could see some browning but overall, the plant