ITHCWY Newsletter for January 2024

ITHCWY Newsletter for January 2024

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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ITHCWY Newsletter for December 2023

Stable Diffusion Global Stereotypes

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 OctoberNovember, and December.

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Links for December 2023

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ITHCWY Newsletter for September 2023

San Francisco shrouded by fog, Stable Diffusion, scale 0

Catfood WebCamSaver 3.22 released with the latest web cam list. Catfood Earth for Android now supports random locations.

New tool - this page is updated every hour with a video of the last 48 hours of global IR cloud cover. Useful for tracking hurricanes and atmospheric rivers.

Sunset timelapse with a slider. And a video made from the highest resolution version of Blue Marble Next Generation.

Does the US need a third party? Also, sortition.

Some bubbles and a San Francisco Crayfish.

Reviews for August and September.

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ITHCWY Newsletter for July 2023

Updated on Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Snowdonia Milky Way Time Lapse

ITHCWY is now part of the Fediverse (Mastodon etc), follow @[email protected].

Time lapse of the Market Street Laser Rainbow for Pride, and the Shenandoah Valley.

Hikes with Hyperlapses: Presidio of San Francisco, Philosopher's Way.

Reviews for June and July.

A 3D printed kong holder, if you hate kongs falling over while you stuff and freeze them.

Photos of a Black Crested Night Heron and, sadly for the heron, a frog several thousand miles away.

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ITHCWY Newsletter for May 2023

End the Filibuster, Joe

A time lapse of the Milky Way over South Lake Tahoe. And, World WebCams 2.

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is 10 Electoral College votes closer. If you live in a state where this isn't law yet consider doing something about it.

Catfood WebCamSaver 3.31 released.

Reviews for MarchApril and May.

Adventures in telling ecommerce stories via generative AI. Also, using ML.NET to predict when fog will flow through the Golden Gate.

The Coronation was looking for a pledge of allegiance?

Although it's not supposed to do much I can now blog from a reMarkable tablet.

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ITHCWY Newsletter for February 2023

GSC Monitor

Timelapse of some great clouds after the January storms in California.

Here's an animation of ten years of San Francisco 311 cases using photos and locations.

I've started a new more comprehensive review format that includes TV, Movies and Podcasts. Check out January and February.

My Echo Show is driving me nuts.

If you're into reading ESRI Shapefiles in .NET my library has migrated to .NET Standard and is now on NuGet. Read more. And enjoy this shapefile based zoom to my neighborhood.

Hikes to Phantom Falls and Shell Ridge Open Space.

Related posts are now way more related thanks to moving from Word2Vec to OpenAI embeddings. I've also been reluctantly moving to Google Analytics 4. Here are some API tips.

Analysis of OpenAI's risible blog post on how close they are to creating artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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ITHCWY Newsletter for December 2022

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In November ITHCWY reached 1,000 posts. Here are 17 of the best.

What happens if you ask Stable Diffusion to generate a typical person from every country in the world?

WebCamSaver 3.30 is available to download. Also Android Fortune Cookies 1.30 and Catfood Earth 4.30.

Timelapse of a plane landing at SFO. Also some more Bangalore Sunsets. And one from SF.

Get rid of the unhelpful word robot.

Animation of 20 years of shifts in the US Presidential vote.

Does anyone know why San Francisco felt the need to redistrict the Pacific Ocean?

You can now follow both ITHCWY and me on Mastodon.

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ITHCWY Newsletter for August 2022

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Catfood WebCamSaver 3.29 is available for download.

UK Update - three things that have changed beyond recognition in the last four years.

Some timelapse: sunset in Wales, milky way in Wales and various sunsets over Waterloo Station in London.

I'm inching closer to actually building this evil calendar to stamp out B2B spam. Does anyone want to help?

HBR gets patent reform wrong.

I said I wouldn't, but here is how to control LIFX WiFi light bulbs from Google Apps Script.

What is Microsoft thinking with Bluetooth settings on Windows 11?

Slow motion video of the One O'clock Gun firing at Edinburgh Castle. ISS over Wales. And a lucky shot of a meteor.

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ITHCWY Newsletter for May 2022

Catfood Earth

Catfood WebCamSaver 3.28 is available for download. More webcams!

Timelapse: stars over Casini Ranch, Bangalore Sunsets, and time lapses of the week #6 and #7.

Instructions and code for building a long term Arduino powered timelapse camera.

I really don't like BBC My Sounds.

Letter to Joe Manchin

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ITHCWY Newsletter for March 2022

One Year of Tides Animated (with Sun and Moon)

Exclusive transcript of the speech that Biden should have delivered: Build Back Betterer.

What is the San Francisco Rent Board Fee?

Catfood WebCamSaver 3.27 is out. This has a big increase in the list of working webcams and so definitely worth upgrading (or trying for the first time).

Code: I fix a pet peeve with Todoist so the Alexa Integration sets a due date. Also, here's how to use the new Google Search Console API to monitor the index status of your pages. Both in Google Apps Script.

Timelapse: San Francisco Shoreline. Sunsets 8 (Nice Pacific view from my roof) and 9 (the March 27 storm in San Francisco). Both sides of the Golden Gate.

Hikes: I don't recommend the perimeter of Treasure Island (at least not trying the whole of it). I absolutely do endorse Mount Davidson. And San Bruno Mountain.

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