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…
At the end of 2025 we bought a Dreame robot vacuum, the Dream L50 Ultra. The main reason was that it should handle the door thresholds our Roborock Q Revo struggled with. The plan was to move the Q Revo downstairs to replace our now-ancient Roborock S5 Max. You might…
A couple of weeks ago I looked into creating a generator that would output the php-code needed to embed javascript libraries hosted by cdnjs.com. As a part of doing this, I needed to create a searchable table that would filter rows as I typed. Since this table would hold a…
