I’ve been looking for to this feature - you can now watch up to four live shows at once on the AppleTV. Of course, if you unwisely choose to watch 4 news shows at once your brain will explode.
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.
For Micro Monday I’d like to recommend @mikehendley who posts in-progress photos of his amazing artwork. It’s fun to follow along.
It isn’t fair to say social media platforms created hatred but is abundantly clear they are actively amplifying it. A small dose of censorship is not enough of a response. It also seems clear these platforms will not take meaningful action unless forced to do so by governments.
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.
A good article on sharing photos online.
Why you should put your dog’s photo on social media—but not your children’s
A couple of days ago my wife’s old 12.9” iPad Pro started shutting down. Thursday night it could happen within 10 minutes after a reboot. It passed all hardware tests so Apple said to wipe it and not to restore from a backup. Still crashed. So she’s now got a shiny new iPad.
Today’s new:
✅ Made a hardware change, now the bootloader again boots and loads
✅ Created a pull request to make an open source library more compatible with a range of MCUs
❌ Discovered a crashing bug in the native SSL library for the ESP32. Not really sure I wanna dive into that
I’ve been doing bare-metal software development my whole life, even pre-college. My first job post graduate school was creating a commercial operating system. But not so much the past few days. Bootloaders that neither boot nor load, watchdog timers resetting… 😡
Working on our 10 year old son’s costume for his speech at school.
I vowed to change how I consume major news. A few months into 2019 my new approach is working well. No more daily checks on major stories, or completely skipping them. I now sit down and read the Sunday NY Times thoroughly. I actually feel better informed and more constructive.
I can no longer say I’ve never had avocado toast. 🤷🏻♂️
I’ve spent nearly the whole day adapting projects to revised APIs. And predictably the API changes have a ripple effect requiring larger scale changes. Also predictably the vendor dropped some required info from the new JSON responses creating a whole other sort of problem.
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.
If someone made a shirt with a pocket specifically to hold the Apple Pencil I’m afraid I’d buy it 🙃
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.
Oh this iPhone home page app grouping is da bomb: Envy, Gluttony, Wrath and more! 👍🏼
Has anyone used a good app for doing a room layout (2-D) for placing furniture etc? I don’t care if it is “pretty” mainly just lookin for the layout aid. I’ve always done it on paper up until now. I do it rarely and just dont’ want to pay $$$.
I’m a happy computer scientist dad. Today at his 3rd Micro:bit class the instructor officially switched my 10 year old son from the graphic MakeCode programming tool to JavaScript. Because his concepts are too complex for MakeCode.😍