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.
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…
As an outdoor enthusiast, there's nothing quite like the feeling of being nestled in a hammock or tucked away in a tent, enjoying the serenity and peace of nature. But as the sun sets and darkness envelops the landscape, a little extra illumination can make all the difference. Enter the…
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…
