The International Space Station over Llanbedr in Wales. Three stacked ten second exposures.
Updated 2022-07-11 09:05:
Same garden in Llanbedr, same space station, different night.
(Published to the Fediverse as: ISS over Wales #photo #iss Photo of the International Space Station (IIS) flying over Llanbedr, Wales, UK. )
Timelapse of three sunsets over Waterloo Station in London. Shot over Pride Weekend 2022 - you can see a huge rainbow flag on one building and if you look closely the rainbow flashing in sequence on One Canada Square in Canary Wharf. Good views of the Shard and Boomerang and the best part of the Walkie Talkie.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Waterloo Sunsets #timelapse #video #london #pride Three sunsets during Pride Weekend shot from above Waterloo Station in London, UK. A time lapse featuring The Shard, The Boomerang and The Walkie Talkie. )
Changing of the Twitter password at Buckingham Palace today. Overheard: "Present... two numbers and one special character".
(Published to the Fediverse as: Changing of the Password #photo #london British Army ceremonial changing of the Twitter password at Buckingham Palace earlier today. )
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Not that it would ever work, better to pack it instead.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Google Trends for 'impeach supreme court justice' This Week #politics #scotus Chart from Google Trends showing search interest in 'impeach supreme court justice' recently. It wouldn't work, pack the court instead. )
Summer starts right now (09:14 UTC June 21 2022) in the northern hemisphere, winter for those with latitude signum differences. Rendered in Catfood Earth.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Summer Solstice 2022 #code #solstice #summer #winter #earth #northern #estival Rendering of the exact moment of Summer Solstice 2022 (June 21, 2022 at 09:14 UTC) in Catfood Earth. )
I could build this in about the same amount of time it's going to take to describe it (love you Google Apps Script) but I'm not quite evil enough.
A good chunk of my work day is deleting endless B2B spam from aggressive salespeople who are certain that I should check out their SAAS whatever and pay $25/user/month for something I could do with a wiki page. Outlook for some reason doesn't recognize this stuff as spam even if you block it. LinkedIn is built to distribute this. It would be great to make it more expensive, painful and humiliating for these people to spray and pray.
My idea: it's Calendly only evil.
You reply saying how excited you are and provide a link to schedule an appointment. This allows them to book a slot and sends them a meeting request and a Zoom link. When they join they're just connected to some number of other salespeople who booked that slot.
Extra credit: record the meetings and auto-post to YouTube and use the ad revenue to pay for hosting costs.
As usual any of my billionaire readers who want to back this should get in touch.
Updated 2023-11-08 00:28:
It's like someone at Google read this post because they're rolling out a Meet API that would solve for the extra credit part of this idea. I'm having a hard time not rolling up my sleeves and building it.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Stamp out B2B spam with an evil calendar #etc #lazyweb #calendar A modest proposal for a service to randomly connect salespeople together on useless video calls to raise the cost of spraying us with endless spam. )
A Boy And His Atom is the world's smallest movie
Testing Twitter API integration, but also this is pretty cool.
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A Death Row Inmate Asked SCOTUS If He Can Die by Firing Squad, and It Said Yes
Also for those not on death row, we can all die by firing squad now too. Thanks SCOTUS.
Just in case it helps someone else I was able to fetch an Outlook iCal feed using C#'s WebClient for years until it stopped working in June, 2022 with a 400 / bad request error. I was downloading a set of calendars and the fix was just to use a new WebClient for each calendar so it must be some kind of state thing in WebClient.
To regain around 1% of sanity I have a task that pulls the various calendars that life throws at me and combines them into a single, de-duplicated calendar. The Google Calendar on my phone is gorgeous as a result. My primary calendar is orange and then all of the miscellanea are teal and unique. It would be great if Google Calendar could do this without help, but it was worth the effort not to have some random soccer match repeated five times in different colors.
Last week one calendar, an Outlook feed, started failing with 400 bad request.
Naturally I assumed that the server had started to suddenly care about some header or other and I started playing around with setting User-Agent and various Accept headers without any luck. To make debugging slightly easier I moved the Outlook calendar out of a loop (where I was iterating through a list of iCal feeds that I need to be aware of) and then it magically started working. The magic in this case must be a fresh WebClient and so the fix was to use a new WebClient for each calendar instead of reusing a single instance. It looks like WebClient is deprecated in .NET 6 and one is supposed to start using HttpClient instead so that's probably another fix but not one I'm going to wrestle with today.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Outlook/Office iCal feed 400 bad request error with C# WebClient #code #c# #outlook How to fix a 400 / bad request error with the C# WebClient when downloading an Office iCal feed. )
SONY ILCE-7C 40mm f22.0 20.0s ISO100
Long exposure of rapids on the South Fork American River in Coloma, CA.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Rapids #photo #rapids Photo (long exposure) of rapids on the South Fork American River, Coloma, El Dorado County, California. )
Download a Sharepoint File with GraphServiceClient (Microsoft Graph API)
Accessing Printer Press ESC to cancel
Export Google Fit Daily Steps, Weight and Distance to a Google Sheet
Monitor page index status with Google Sheets, Apps Script and the Google Search Console API
International Date Line Longitude, Latitude Coordinates
Scanning from the ADF using WIA in C#
Sending email via GMail in C#/.NET using SmtpClient
Is it safe to open securedoc.html (Cisco Registered Envelope)?
