This was really fun. Tom Scott tried to land a 737 (in a simulator) with and without autopilot.
A Day in the Life: My initial plan was to do a bike ride and find a nice picture there, but weather and tiredness did not agree with that plan. So instead, here is a photo of the tiny pink flowers from the balcony who have recovered from the heat of the summer. Fall is great!
Don’t forget to add “Image Descriptions” for your “Day In the Life 2022” photos! Let’s make this very inclusive 🙂
Wow, turns out accessing calendars to display on one’s e-ink display is not that easy… Probably have to go through (iOS) Shortcuts…
Android’s Share Sheet
How is anybody able to use Android directly? Their accessibility scanner creates a zip file which you can share. Awesome. Unless you want to share it to Google Drive (from Goole Android’s Google Accessibility Scanner) because it does not show up in the share sheet. Google Mail, Bluetooth(???) and …
Inkplate 6COLOR on macOS
How I got my Inkplate 6COLOR running on macOS: Install Python 3. (I already had that, you can check the command line which python 3 and if there is a result, you are good to go.) Install the CH340 driver. This driver basically is responsible for having macOS “see the device” through USB. Install …
First result experimenting with my Inkplate 6COLOR I mentioned earlier. It displays the value of our outside air quality sensor. And as I can confirm, it even updates automatically every 5 minutes! This is cool. I’m a C++ programmer now!
Playing around with the Inkplate 6COLOR from Soldered and I’m very impressed. The build quality is good, the refresh rate decent for a color e-ink display. The documentation is okay, but I had a hard time setting it up on my MacBook Pro. I need to document the steps.
Look how Mandip and Jodie are holding hands on the red carpet here: Source: Doctor Who on Twitter
Germany, 7-day incidence on October 10th: 2020: 30.1 2021: 69.8 2022: 788.3 The pandemic is worse than ever but only few people act like it. 😩
I’m a big fan of the comics of @islieb@mastodon.social – in German: Was tun? islieb? https://mastodon.social/@islieb/109150825454227591
This “Drunk History” on the Section 504 disability rights protests is amazing. Really well done. 🦾
Throwback Tuesday to the time at a Conference in Denver/Colorado in 2016 where you could see the moon in daylight over the Rockies. Happy to got the picture with my Canon camera.
Anna E. Cook producing the good memes! See the Overlay Fact Sheet for more information.
‘It Felt Like a Funeral’ — William Shatner on his feelings when he was on that Blue OrIgin space flight: […B]eauty isn’t out there, it’s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound. It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever …
Snooker Hong Kong Masters 2022
Awesome Hong Kong Masters final between Ronnie O’Sullivan and Marco Fu. Ronnie getting into a commanding lead before the mid-session interval and then struggleing a little to get over the line. No super-high breaks, but Ronnie’s 114 clearance basically without black and pink in the final frame was …
Ordered something at an online pharmacy a week ago. In the meantime, I got three promotional emails to buy more, but haven’t gotten my order yet. What gives?
I’m really looking forward to the next episode of Doctor Who! October 23! New trailer today:
Trying to mention @roblen@microblog.at on his Mastodon instance. Will it work?
I hope to take part! A bunch of people have signed up for next week’s Day in the Life photo challenge, but it would be great to see even more folks from the Micro.blog community participate. You just post one photo wherever you are on October 13th. We might do a book, so fill out this form too. 📷 …
I got my soldered.com Inkplate 6 Color today and have been trying to set it up. Looks like there is much more to it than I anticipated and the Arduino IDE software reliably makes my Mac unstable‽ Next try tomorrow!
Aaron Gustafson has a call for mentorship on his blog. He’s one of the people where you can really learn what good web development is.
It’s German Reunification Day, a public holiday. 🚴🏻♂️ I went for a bike ride and because I live near the border of two states (both in western Germany), I crossed the border six times! A fun adventure! Full video of the tour at Relive: www.relive.cc/view/vQvx…
Modern TV cable management sucks! I guess I need a diagram and optimize cable routes. Such a first world problem!
Kinda weird day. Did some home stuff including hanging the two letterpress prints from Cameron Moll over the dining table and receiving the last IKEA shipment for a while to finish up some of the rooms after the move last year. My office is next but that’s not urgent.