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.
Recently the WP-admin has gotten more attention from core developers. The Media section recently got a grid design, and the plugins area also got a visual improvement. A thought that followed; why not do the same for the User section? This idea first came around for me while working on…
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…
Tesla Owners: Ever forget to reset your charging limit to 80% after a long drive? I've been there too! So, I automated this with Home Assistant. Now, whenever my Tesla is plugged in at home and the charge limit is over 80%, it automatically adjusts to 80% and sends me…