bash

For the last few years I’ve had a go to grow various chilli and tomato plants for fun. You can’t grow these cheaper than you can buy them (or I can’t), but it’s fun and unrushable, which is a nice change from day to day tech. Last year I built a timelapse rig that took a photo of the sky every second for an entire year. I’ve not got round to writing it up yet, but I learnt a lot about how to build a reasonably resilient setup using an old laptop and a security camera....

For my aniversary I tried to express my love in the most pure form I could, making an animated gif of great moments in your relationship. Obviously my tool of choice where was bash, because I could have used a gui tool but where’s the fun in that. The aim A large format animated GIF based off a bunch of JPG images, or different resolutions, in a random order. The process First I gathered all the images into a directory from my Shotwell collecion and Google Photos....

I love my Android phone, its great having a bit of kit I can mess with but that just works out of the box. Since Google retired Google Latitude I’d forgotten then my mobile knows exactly where I am and generally I don’t mind this, it helps my phone show me smarter information, but it’s my data and damn it, I want it. Eventually I’ll get round to writing a simple backend to store my location (it’s yet another thing I didn’t do in my time off), however I’d like to get out all my historic data....