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.
Hi, and thanks for checking out my site! I'm Thomas, I work as a web developer and live in Norway just outside of Oslo. If you meet me in person you will quickly find me talking about one of 3 things – technology, sustainability and creativity. If I'm getting really…
A high traffic site I host for a client needed to be available on both HTTP and HTTPS. This particular site, though, needed different caches depending on what scheme was used. Note: Since Varnish doesn't support HTTPS, it is in this case placed behind Nginx. Nginx then indicates any HTTPS…
This summer we decided to do a little experiment. Drive through Europe with our Model X while towing a caravan. This journey took us through Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria and back again for a total distance of more than 6.000 km (3700+ miles). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88nsPpSoxqU On this trip we got…
