Slava Pisarevskiy's blog

I have released a new functionality in Open Plantbook cloud . The major change is extended and more straight forward Plant Operations. You can find docs here . All release notes https://github.com/slaxor505/OpenPlantbook-client List of changes for the last two releases: Release 202412 (11 December 2024) Completely rebuild Public and User Plants Operations UI and Backend. Now operations are just simple and straight forward Edit & Copy. Read more New Copy operation for own User-plants Browse User-plants now includes users' Copied/Cloned plants Added auto-generated PID field to all Plant Operation forms for convenience Updated text labels in Plant Operation forms Changing "Scientific name" creates a new User-plant Don't allow to modify display_pid when Edit plants Internal updates Changed license for this repository to MIT Release 202410 (27 October 2024) Added PID to Plant Detail form Fixed issue where empty field in JSON time series cause upload error. Now empty va...

Plantbook.io I believe that many people would love to have plants but they don’t go for it because it is time consuming and sometimes stressful activity especially using trial and error approach. Moreover, these days we already have enough things to think about and for example keeping watering schedule feels too much.  The result, people avoid to have beautiful peace of nature at home. Or plants suffer without proper care cause stress. In addition to this, I also believe that plants and agriculture as a whole is a crutial area for entire planet especially considering food and water shortage in some areas. In the coming future the problems will be getting bigger and bigger unless we start solving them. In future, we will also need technologies to grow edible plants for space exploration. Hence, I firmly believe that modern technologies can make the process of growing plants not only easier but more efficient from resources prospective. I’d love to talk whether y...

Life transformation is in progress... Just finished amazing book - "4-hours work week" by Tim Ferris .  The book was recommended to me by David Beer . David is life coach and as well as myself fellow of Harbour View Toastmaster Club .  My opinion is that book includes absolutely valuable solutions and approaches from entrepreneurship and lifestyle rethinking prospective. I found many answers on questions which I have been looking for ages. I'd recommend this book to anyone who wish to make his/her life extraordinary and/or take a look at it under different angle. Also, I think that people who have established business or think about setting up one would find it interesting. By the way, the book ranked as one of most quoted books on Amazon. Just in time, Tim has just podcast The 4-Hour Workweek Revisited dedicated to 10th anniversary of the book. He discuss common questions and misperceptions, and how he would adjust certain chapters and recommendations. I took...