Harbingers. First of many to come. 📷
Attracted to the light like moths to a flame.
I’ll be there soon myself to pick up a new laptop.
Still. Very. Green.
No filters or edits…
Yesterday was full of rain and storms. Today it is beautifully clear and the trees and fields are bursting forth. So. Much. Green. 📷
It’s an indoor kind of day with multiple rain storms passing from the south. I built a new weather alert device for the family this week and these storms have been perfect for testing it as waves of alerts come and go.
I think someone snuck in the house last night and replaced my MBP with Windows OS.
Been staring at this in-progress update for an hour with no movement. Not a productive start to the day.
We just went through a 30 minute hailstorm. Never been in one that long. The hail ranged in size from 3/4” to 1 1/2”. The cars parked outside lost their windshields. Fortunately ours are in the garage and no broken windows. Claim filled and roofer contacted. Fingers crossed.
Current status: Onigoroshi
It was a beautiful day on the trail today. Surprised it was so deserted. Spring weather here is off to a great start.
Happy spring everyone!
From 10 years ago today.
Good morning!
Found a good home for my new Drafts sticker. Excited for its macOS release in the very near future.
One advantage of taking the kids to school each morning is seeing lovely sunrises 🌅 📷
No act of kindness is too small… ☕️
Harbinger I’ve gotten outside for exercise a few times this year but today felt different - being outdoors has gone from a rare treat to an expected norm. Just in time for spring which I believe starts Wednesday.
A Walk In The Gardens - With Pink And Blue Horses!
Started out chilly but by the time we were done we had peeled off our layers. It is still a bit early in the year so flowers were lacking but we got a good 3 mile walk in.
Night lines📷
From the window seat ☀️ ☁️ 📷
Current location: Buc-ees.
Working on our 10 year old son’s costume for his speech at school.
I can no longer say I’ve never had avocado toast. 🤷🏻♂️
Ever since it came out I’ve been using the Jayson iOS app (you know, for looking at JSON files). All the basic features are free and the app has worked perfectly for me on a ton of different sources. Productivity++ viewing JSON on my iPad while coding on my MBP.
At the high school Performing Arts Center. But for a parent meeting not a performance. Super deluxe with loge seating.
Earlier this year @johnjohnston posted animated GIF images of the sky/weather. Being a bit of a weather nerd the idea appealed to me so I created scripts to capture time lapse MP4s outside my home. Welcome to Window on Weather.
Window on Weather - creating time lapse images of the local sky
Earlier this year @johnjohnston posted animated GIF images of the sky/weather based on a Raspberry Pi setup. I’m a bit of a weather nerd and the idea appealed to me especially since I had an older Raspberry Pi and Pi camera sitting idle. But I wasn’t much interested in animated GIFs based on a general aversion but also because the video quality is rather poor.
I set up the Pi with the camera pointed at the sky on the front of my house and created a Window on Weather repo in Github comprised of a couple of bash scripts and a Python script. Every 10 minutes the Pi captures a short set of still images which are compiled into an animated GIF but more usefully to me an MP4 time lapse covering 10 minutes of real time. The resulting MP4 is about 10 seconds in length. I also created a script which creates a 1 hour MP4 compilation which has a viewing time about 1 minute. The file size of a 10 minute time lapse MP4 is a typically less than 10MB and, rather interestingly to me, is smaller than the animated GIF. The MP4 compilation of 1 hour of sky time comes out to less than 50MB. Images for the most recent 3 days are available on the Pi via Apache.
I enjoy looking at the MP4 time lapses on a regular basis. Even when the sky seems uninteresting the time lapse often reveals lovely changes. I feel like I should make stills or the MP4 publicly available but I haven’t yet delved into a hardened and usable method of providing a gallery. Plus I’m not sure there is an audience.
I finally found a use for my old Flickr account 😃 and posted a couple of sample videos there. This is a MP4 from a mostly sunny day and this one is of a day with clouds coasting by. Unusually for Texas the weather the past week has been flipping between severe clear and a pretty uniform overcast, neither of which makes the most interesting viewing. I think this project will be especially interesting when thunderstorm season starts.
The repo includes a housekeeping script that removes old files periodically so the SD card doesn’t clog up as well as the crontab entries I use to run everything.
