Coronavirus by country and US state/county - this post updates two videos daily that show increases in cases and deaths by day. Also more very local hikes.
I can't tell if Microsoft wants me to use Edge.
More ISS.
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4K video of an International Space Station lunar transit on May 7.
Coronavirus hikes.
Timelapse of stars over San Francisco.
Catfood Software updates: Earth 4.01 and WebCamSaver 3.21.
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A 4K one year global cloud cover timelapse.
Niche topic maybe, but if you want to monitor Azure app services via Google Sheets then I've got you covered.
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More Bangalore: Timelapse featuring Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace, Lalbagh Botanical Garden, KR flower market, Bangalore Palace and Cubbon Park.
Coastal: an abstract timelapse of the California coast.
Jesse Wegman has written a book, Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College (review) and a NYT op-ed on switching to a more rational way of electing the President. If you support this idea I have a page on the topic with four concrete things you can do to help.
Hike to Kirby Cove Beach (Marin Headlands near San Francisco).
Tool to backup locked files on Windows 10 - great for XCOPY backups or just grabbing a locked file.
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A timelapse portrait of San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2019.
Hike: Mt. Livermore on Angel Island
Catfood Earth 4.00 has been released. The new version includes 4K remastered day, night and cloud images as well as the latest timezone database.
It's a month for updates - you can also grab Catfood WebCamSaver 3.20 which includes an updated list of working webcams around the world. WebCamSaver is a Windows screensaver that shows you a feed of open webcams.
Meeting defragmenter is real!
How to fix the Washington Post democratic candidate quiz.
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Photo of the transit of Mercury on Nov 11.
Kidlapse is live - make a movie of your child growing up.
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Timelapse of the 2019 Parade of Ships at San Francisco Fleet Week.
Bangalore Timelapse.
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SFO has just banned bottled water. Why not Coke?
In need of a simple tool to de-duplicate and sort photos and videos into year and month folders on Windows? Check out PhotoSorter.
Rebuttal of an op-ed in the NYT on the simulation hypothesis.
More on simulation. Have we proved this isn't true? No. Also - what does analyzing the physics of Conway's Game of Life tell us?
New project: generate a timelapse of a kid growing up from a set of any photos (uses machine learning to spot and align faces). Check it out at kidlapse.com.
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Timelapse of the night sky over Pinnacles National Park.
Google just broke automatic backup of Google Photos to Google Drive. Here's an apps script to get it working again.
Could Google do one or two things to fix phone spam already?
Compilation timelapse from a road trip - features Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Glacier and Humboldt Redwoods.
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Timelapse of Pacifica State Beach.
Cory Doctorow argues for adversarial interoperability as a tool to weaken tech monopolies. I've reached the same conclusion: Facebook shouldn't own your social graph.
Dead Ringers S18E04 (available very briefly) has a halfway decent Brexit / Douglas Adams joke. Here's a better one.
A longer hike at China Camp State Park.
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Export Google Fit Daily Steps, Weight and Distance to a Google Sheet
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Monitor page index status with Google Sheets, Apps Script and the Google Search Console API
Download a Sharepoint File with GraphServiceClient (Microsoft Graph API)
Upgrading from word2vec to OpenAI
Scanning from the ADF using WIA in C#
International Date Line Longitude, Latitude Coordinates
Automate Google PageSpeed Insights and Core Web Vitals Logging with Apps Script
Enable GZIP compression for Amazon S3 hosted website in CloudFront
User scoped custom dimensions in Google Analytics 4 using gtag