Google has been sending me increasingly threatening emails about upgrading my Android apps and so August has been all about that. Helpfully Microsoft has also deprecated Xamarin (a tool I used to write software for Android) and so I also had to do a crash course in MAUI. Thank goodness for ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. I also took this opportunity to figure out adaptive icons and generally update the look and feel of the apps.

Catfood Earth for Android has a new volcanoes layer and support for showing where you are on the satellite image.

Fortune Cookies for Android just works again, but that's not nothing.

I also made this timelapse of Fogust - San Francisco enveloped in fog - and this new to me hike in Pacifica has a nice hyperlapse (and some fog).

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I have wanted a decentralized social network for a long time. Maybe this Fediverse thing is starting to get legs. Bluesky and Mastodon can now talk to each other via Bridgy Fed. Threads can post to Mastodon. ITHCWY has been on ActivityPub for a year now and it's become a significant source of traffic and comments. If you are on Mastodon or a federated service you can follow me at @[email protected]. I plan to get even more federated over the next year.

I waded foolishly into the debate around turning the Great Highway in San Francisco into a park, and found that the data doesn't support the fear of carnage in the Sunset when this road is closed. I also made a custom GPT to discuss the San Francisco budget with, and had to spend some time writing the missing manual to even know what to ask. Too late now, but here's a guide to the March ballot measures (watch this space for November) On a national level I got to update my NPVIC page now that Maine has joined.

Some photos... I knew that black bears could be brown, this one is very brown. Some humpback whales. The first commercially available glow-in-the-dark plant.

Milky Way timelapse from Canada. Partial Solar Eclipse from Inverness (CA).

Tunnel Mountain is a great hike in Banff (start from anywhere in town). Bolinas Point Loop is better if you're closer to Bolinas (which I mostly am).

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January has been nearly all timelapse at ITHCWY. First up I have my annual New Year's Eve production, this time a portrait of the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Apparently the Port Authority and US Army Corps of Engineers have a plan to lift this stretch of shoreline by 7 feet to protect it from climate change. I also got a chance to visit Miami, and produced a timelapse of the skyline and the world's latest largest cruise ship, the Icon of the Seas. It's so big it can spell it's own name out using windows as pixels. This is the ship causing the climate change that necessitates lifting the Embarcadero. Finally some present day construction, two months of light rail track replacement on my street.

Also, some reviews for January. I would in particular recommend Leave the World Behind.

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Happy New Year!

Catfood Earth 4.40 includes the latest time zone database and also some fixes for the locations, volcanoes and weather radar layers. If you use any of that please update.

I'm slowly replacing myself with an LLM. Currently I'm on Rob 2.1 which features a fine tuned version of GPT 3.5, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and some prompt tuning. You can chat with it in the comments. Don't worry, it's not blogging yet, the aim is to start sending it to some meetings.

Just how different are nanoplastics and microplastics? More on free will. It is time we actually tried some tyranny of the majority for a bit.

An animation of PM2.5 pollution across the US in 2023.

Time lapse of the full Hunter's moon and Jupiter (and some Galilean moons).

Reviews for October, November, and December.

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