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.
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…
I use, and can highly recommend, the Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus with my Home Assistant server (running ZHA). However, recently I had an issue where I added a new Aqara Smart Plug to my setup, and while adding it went just fine, it didn't reflect the power measurements in…
tl;dr… Using Google Webfonts will hurt your score pretty bad, however, PageSpeed forgives you if you do it "right". Recently I started making some changes to my WordPress theme again, giving it a slightly more minimalistic look. Unfortunately this meant that a lot of Google PageSpeed work had to be…