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tl;dr I’ve put together a wooden box with a dot matrix screen which uses a Raspberry Pi and FlightRadar24 to let me know what aircraft are over my house. It has some big magnets on the back which let me mount it to my fridge. When there’s nothing overhead it...
A list of shortcuts I’ve yet to find a single list of all the key combinations that can be used to configure my new Keychron K2 keyboard so I’m dumping them all here as a reference for myself. These are all based on the v1.62 firmware. Key Combination Hold Purpose...
Impetus It’s funny how a silly idea can end up taking over your life. Back in 2012 I was out walking the dog down the River Kelvin in Glasgow trying to think up a simple JavaScript project. I was wanting to learn about something called Ajax transactions. I’d need to...
Recently Yahoo updated how you can access their weather API. Instead of the previous free-for-all you now need to have a whitelisted app and authenticate with OAuth1 when requesting data. As per the warning in the documentation: Important EOL Notice: As of Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, the weather.yahooapis.com and query.yahooapis.com...