Last night a friend of mine gave me the idea of creating a time-lapse video of New York using the images by the NY-Times webcam. The video shows New York between 15:30 and 08:30 (local time) last night as Sandy hit.
I used a simple script to download one image per minute – combining a cron-job with a few lines of PHP, and used these to create a 60fps 30fps time-lapse video of the approximately 1050 images gathered so far.
Earlier this year Digital Ocean launched Managed Databases. At that time, only PostgreSQL was made available, and now MySQL and Redis have finally landed as well. I have now done some experimenting with this service, and here are my first impressions. In short; Digital Ocean's Managed Databases allow you set…
In this post I will describe how you can add an item to the context menu in OS X for opening a folder in Sublime Text 2. Secondly we will make it easier to open a file or folder in Sublime from the terminal. Start off by opening Automater, and…
Electric power companies, in general, are pretty much the same. Tibber however, is unlike any electricity company I had seen before. They try to utilise the data we get from smart devices, which they also sell, to save electricity, money and the environment, as well as improving comfort. It’s a…