Personal photography portfolio and occasional writings.
A while back the New York Times shut down their space calendar , which I had subscribed to for years. It was a single curated calendar feed covering rocket launches, moon phases, eclipses, meteor showers and more. I couldn’t find a good replacement so I set out to build my own twist on it and wrote Space Calendar . Space Calendar generates personalized ICS feeds you can subscribe to in Google…
Two or three times a year I end up needing to update my expiring SSL certificates. Each time I have to look up the one or two commands I need and every time it takes two or three websites to find the right information so I’ve recorded it here for future reference and in the hopes that it helps someone else as well. Generating a new CSR: openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout…
Update On June 15th, 2018 500px shut off their API . This plugin used the 500px API to retrieve information about a photo in order to render the embedded html and no longer functions without the API. Original Post From time to time I like to read through 500px ISO to look at the amazing photos and gather some inspiration. One of my favorite parts of 500px ISO is the overlay on the photos that…
Since the final release of Android Lollipop has started to roll out to devices in the last week or two many users of Dislock have noticed that it no longer removes the pin or password set on their device. I’ve spent a lot of time testing and trying a few workarounds, but the results are all the same, the removal of a pin, password or pattern has no effect until after a reboot. This breaks Dislock…
Update On June 15th, 2018 500px shut off their API . Photo Paper’s features rely on the 500px API and no longer function without access to the API. Original Post I’m a big fan of 500px , from time to time I post my photos there and I’ll happily spend hours looking through the amazing photos that others have posted. One day I was staring at the same boring wallpaper on my phone and I thought it…
At the end of August I had the chance to attend an astrophotography workshop by Sean Parker in North Lake Tahoe . This was my first time attending a photography workshop of any kind and I didn’t know quite what to expect. After signing up Sean was very helpful and knowledgeable, recommending lenses and making sure I had all the gear I needed. I have tried my hand at astrophotography in the past…
A week and a half ago I released an update to Pebble Locker that changed the name to Dislock . For eight months now Pebble Locker has supported many more devices than just Pebbles and it was past time for a new name. Another factor in the name change was Pebble changing their recommendations on how apps are named to make it clearer who is developing the apps. Along with the rename comes more free…
Another year, another awesome Pebble Developer Retreat . The retreat this year was 4 days of talks on new features, making great looking images on a black and white display, pushing Pebbles to their limits by running OpenGL and writing directly to the framebuffer, a developer meetup, Pebbles talking directly to other devices over Bluetooth 4 Low Energy, a whole day of Pebble controlled robots…
Last week Pebble Locker added first class support for Android Wear allowing users to add their Android Wear devices as a trusted device and automatically lock and unlock their phones and tablets. Pebble Locker uses the WearableListenerService to learn when Android Wears are connected and disconnected. The source code is available on GitHub
Pebble Locker made Android Central’s Apps of the Week list this week. A few months ago Pebble Locker also made Paste Magazine’s Top 10 Must-Have Pebble Smartwatch Apps