Prepping for the final Chibnall era episode of Doctor Who. This better be good! ;-)
I’d like to display what type of trash is getting collected on my Inkplate 6COLOR and it seems to be impossible to extract the week number out of a epoch integer to extract the type out of an array. Thinking of other ways to do it now…
Excellent win at the Snooker Northern Ireland Open from Zhou Yuelong over David Gilbert, very tight match, but he played very consistently. 🎱🔴
Icons (and graphics) on an Inkplate 6COLOR
One of the more complicated things was how to show icons on the Inkplate 6COLOR. Now, generally it is pretty easy: You take the graphic, you convert it into a C header file, import it and then render it to the screen. However, there are a few challenges: The drawBitmap3Bit function that is used …
Super happy about a new song from Peter Fox. Fourteen years after the last album, it’s really nice to have him doing solo stuff again. Guess I’m now a Seeed fan for over 20 years, if I think about it… Better not 😂
PSA: Both, the Saturn V rocket (which I have and is delightful) and the International Space Station are on LEGO’s “Retiring Soon” page in Germany. You’ve been informed!
So, did I just draft a blog post about my WCAG 2 worries? Yes. Is it likely that I won’t publish it after all? Also yes. Was it still a good exercise? Maybe. Time will tell…
Me: “Oh, this looks like a nice cycling route.” Website: “Put me on your list to cycle here!” Me: “OK, how do I get to the start without a car?” Website: “There’s a bus. No bikes allowed on there.” Me: 🤦🏻♂️ 🚴🏻♂️
Don’t remove content from the web, especially if it was published less than a year ago. People (me!) might rely on referring back to it. Just keep it online.
I often think how fit the bike people on YouTube must be that they manage to go many more kilometers than I usually do. Then I realize that they cycle in flat areas. Even my short route today had 230m elevation gain.
Very good Snooker action from Northern Ireland Open so far. Final frame from Judd Trump was superb, that three ball combination was excellent. And now Reanne Evans and Mark Selby with an excellent, if nervous, contest.
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.