To start off, I understand some communities have historically had bad experiences with being subject to institutionally approved medicine that proved harmful and that this can lead to skepticism that is justifiably hard to root out. However, I don’t understand why people would doubt science, let alone vaccines, in societies where people have reliably been protected by vaccines for decades. Even more, when our elders can still remember the deaths that had occurred before those vaccines were widely available.
Sure, corruption is a widespread phenomenon, but there’s still peer review and, among the huge number of people involved, the information…
Shamrock is a Trefle API library written in Python. Trefle is a botany API with a number of plants in their database. It can be used for research, gardening software, automation, etc.
I made the Shamrock library using the existing requests library to interact with the Trefle API because I needed some structure in my upcoming project. I wanted to do things properly; testing, documentation, CI/CD pipeline, ensuring that the repository conforms to certain standards and publishing everything mentioned. It took me around a month and a half of casual work in free time to complete the first release. …
I wanted to figure out how to set up serverless things so I opted for a simple application, although it turned out the architecture of it all had a lot of moving parts. The application in question is taking the Trello board JSON export and converting it to an MM file for Coggle.
Let’s say you are primarily using Trello to organize your to-do list. It’s a great tool with a lot of features, why not use it. But you are more of a visual type, and seeing it in a color-coded diagram could help you prioritize and group up…
The Krita plug-in for Leaflet in question is identical to the one I made for GIMP. I described the GIMP Leaflet plug-in in an earlier post. It takes an image, scales it up according to the zoom level in question, crops it so it’s a perfect square and then starts slicing it into tiles.
The tiles themselves are used by JavaScript Leaflet library or whichever library that needs tiles, but Leaflet is supposed to be the reference. It saves the resulting tiles in a folder of your choice with a structure that you can use with Leaflet.
What happens when you have a camera that has no GPS, but you still want to attach spatial coordinates to the produced images? This post builds upon the last series of posts that dealt with displaying the spatial photo coordinates on Google Earth and people should be aware of the dangers of EXIF tags beforehand.
Some years ago I bought GoPro Hero 4 that doesn’t have the GPS module. Newer models have it, but Hero 4, and a lot of other cameras don’t. This puts me in a position of having the following use case: in possession of a number…
This is the third post in the series about developing a script that uses your photos to create a workable KML that shows where the photos were taken on Google Earth. The first one talked about the script basics and the second one introduced reverse geocoding.
The generated KML still has a problem that the name of the photo is just a file path for it.
I wanted to rectify that since it looks ugly on Google Earth. To do that, I needed to know what was in each image. The process where you have half a thousand photos and…
A while ago I made a Python script that takes your images and extracts the latitude and longitude coordinates for KML from them. The KML can then be opened with Google Earth where you can enjoy the fancy display of your photos attached to map locations. The script works in the way that it creates placemarks in KML that are correctly placed on the map. When one clicks the placemark, it opens a popup with the image associated with that location.
However, the description is just a timestamp of when an image was taken. That bugged me and there was…
I decided to write a Python script that would create a Google Earth KML file with the list of geotagged photos that can be showed in the application. My reasoning for it was that a while ago Google decided to shut down Panoramio, the service they had acquired previously.
The service was of a photo-sharing type; much like Google Photos or Flickr today. The added ability that set the service apart from others was that the Google Earth application had a map layer comprised of photos stored on Panoramio. …
This is a GreaseMonkey script that looks up your favorite subs on Reddit and colorizes the posts from them on your home page.
It turns something like this:
To something like this:
Become a blood donor. That’s the gist of it. I’ll tell you a bit about that. I’ve been trying to write this post for a very long time now. I’ve been to the donor clinic about four times already in the past two years. It was always something preventing me from donating. Either me not being originally from this country, having to give samples first, or having to wait because I had been traveling, or having to get some medical documentation they needed to verify first. Right now, after my first proper donation, things are finally falling into place. …
Zlatko Mašek
A programmer with interest in art, cooking and social change.
