Another year another timelapse of earth as seen from 5 satellites! I’ve been running this little twitter bot for over 5 years now and it never gets old watching this beautiful pale blue dot. I’ve previously wrote about how I do the yearly timelapse. Earth in 2022. A year in review 🧵 — Earth (@earthin24) January 16, 2023 If twitter isn’t your thing it’s also on mastodon! https://botsin.space/@earthin24/109696834017584339 Continue reading.

Every year I produce a timelapse video of my @earthin24 twitter bot for each of the 5 satellites that it tracks. Earth in 2021, a year in review thread 🧵 pic.twitter.com/L485FyF7EH — Earth (@earthin24) January 3, 2022 This year was the first year I built, tweeted, and stored each video and fulldisc frame inside github using their actions infrastructure. So my usual process of ssh’ing into my VPS and running some flaky scripts to generate the videos would have to be changed. Continue reading.

I recently had the privilege of being able to install solar on my roof and with that came the need/want to track and monitor lots of information about my solar install and my usage patterns of it. Having recently electrified my home and completely removing gas all together (I plan to write about this too), I wanted to know where I could load shift some of my usage patterns. Another aspect of monitoring was to know my panels were performing at their optimal, and expected, output. Continue reading.

At work my team have recently taken over a golang app. To learn a new language I like to build something that keeps my interest and by the nature of exploring something of interest you tend to cover way more surface area of a language this way.

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The other day I had to test an API response based on a file having the incorrect Content-Type of a FormData PUT request.

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If you’re unfamiliar with LIFX it’s basically a smart wifi enabled led lightbulb. Lifx recently released a Ruby gem to communicate with it and give it instructions. With winter looming in the southern hemisphere and the sun being up for what feels like 4 seconds at that time of year it’s really hard to get up in the morning so I investigated using their gem to simulate a sunrise effect in time with my alarm on my phone.

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