About

I'm Fred Houweling — an engineer, developer, and maker based in Australia. This site has been my online home in one form or another since around 1998, starting as a personal homepage and growing into a collection of projects, notes, and experiments.

Over the years it has hosted everything from PIC microcontroller code and PHP web apps to a local MediaWiki, a reference manager, weather feeds, and more than one abandoned side project. The old site has now been archived and replaced with this simpler, faster, more secure version.

Current focus areas

Software: C/C++, C#, PHP, SQL, Python, Linux tooling.
Embedded & electronics: Microcontrollers, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, sensors, home-built interfaces.
Data & automation: MQTT, weather logging, home automation, dashboards, and anything that can be graphed.
Making: 3D printing, makerspaces, workshop projects, and the occasional renovation challenge.

About this site

The site is intentionally minimal: PHP includes, a single responsive CSS file, no tracking, no heavy frameworks, and no spam-friendly contact forms. It is deployed from an SVN working copy with a simple timestamped-backup publish script.