Winter Solstice 2015 rendered in Catfood Earth (Windows, Android).
(Published to the Fediverse as: Winter Solstice 2015 #code #earth #solstice #winter #summer #hibernal #southern The exact moment of Winter Solstice 2015 as rendered in Catfood Earth. )
Catfood Earth 3.41 fixes a problem that was preventing the weather radar layer from loading.
I've also updated to the latest (2015g) time zone database and the latest time zone map from Eric Muller.
Download the latest Catfood Earth.
Autumn begins right now in the northern hemisphere, Spring for the hemispherically challenged. Rendered in Catfood Earth (Windows, Android).
(Published to the Fediverse as: Autumnal Equinox 2015 #code #earth #equinox #autumnal Catfood Earth render of the Autumnal Equinox 2015 including clouds and the extent of day and night. )
Catfood Weather 2.20 fixes a problem with the forecast failing to update (the National Weather Service changed the URL of the web service that Catfood Weather uses and while they were kind enough to put a redirect in place it was a form of redirect that didn't play nicely with WebClient so a patch is needed).
In addition this release should fix the ignore alerts feature. It's one of those cases that after not having looked at the code for a couple of years I suddenly realized that the implementation was fatally flawed (bordering on idiotic) and could never have worked. Should be better now.
Download Catfood Weather 2.20.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Catfood Weather 2.20 #code #weather Catfood Weather 2.20 is a critical update that fixes the forecast and also corrects the ignore alerts feature. )
Summer starts right now in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter in the southern. Rendered in Catfood Earth with the timezone layer (Windows, Android).
(Published to the Fediverse as: Summer Solstice 2015 in Catfood Earth #code #solstice #summer #winter #earth #northern #estival The exact moment of Summer Solstice 2015 as rendered in Catfood Earth )
I've just released Catfood Earth 3.40 for Windows and 1.50 for Android.
Both updates fix a problem with the clouds layer not updating. The Android update also adds compatibility for Android 5 / Lollipop.
Also, Catfood Earth for Android is now free. I had been charging $0.99 for the Android version but I've reached the conclusion that I'm never going to retire based on this (or even buy more than a couple of beers) so it's not worth the hassle. Catfood Earth for Windows has been free since 3.20.
Spring starts right now, unless you're south of the equator in which case welcome to Autumn. Rendered in Catfood Earth (Windows, Android).
(Published to the Fediverse as: Vernal Equinox 2015 #code #earth #equinox #spring #autumn #vernal The exact moment of Vernal Equinox 2015 rendered in Catfood Earth. )
Catfood Earth fans will want to download Catfood Earth 3.30. This update fixes a problem where volcanoes were all plotted in the middle of the screen.
Winter starts now in the northern hemisphere, Summer south of the equator. Rendered in Catfood Earth (Windows, Android). Now read why mornings will continue to get darker for the next couple of weeks.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Winter Solstice 2014 #code #earth #solstice #winter #summer #hibernal #southern The exact moment of Winter Solstice 2014 as rendered in Catfood Earth, )
I'm working on page speed and Google PageSpeed Insights is telling me that my PNGs are just way too large. Sadly .NET does not provide any way to optimize PNG images so there is no easy fix - just unmanaged libraries and command line tools.
I have an allergy to manual processes so I've lashed up some code to automatically find and optimize PNGs in my App_Data folder using PNGCRUSH. I can call CrushAllImages() to fix up everything or CrushImage() when I need to fix up a specific PNG. Code below:
(Published to the Fediverse as: Crushing PNGs in .NET #code #png #compression #crush #asp.net #mvc How to automatically reduce the size of PNG images for a .NET website using PNGCRUSH. )
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