Nick LansleyJan 12, 20193 minThe Daily Peacehaven Timelapse VideoA couple of posts ago I wrote about the ‘WeatherPi’ Raspberry Pi that collects the latest weather readings every 10 minutes and make a...
Nick LansleyDec 30, 20181 minLive weather data and images!I wanted to take the peaceful few days between Christmas and New Year to really refresh the data collected from the local weather that...
Nick LansleyMay 13, 20183 minDecoding TV Teddy Part Four – The Search For Encoding That WorksIf you’ve been following my articles on reverse-engineering the TV Teddy soundtrack embedded in the video picture, then you may have...
Nick LansleyMar 24, 20188 minDecoding TV Teddy – Part Three: Encoding a new TV Teddy VideoIn part two I successfully decoded the TV Teddy audio embedded in a TV Teddy video, and I’ve watched the sync’d playback with the...
Nick LansleyMar 18, 20187 minDecoding TV Teddy – Part Two: Programming and Audio OutputAs a purely fun and academic exercise, I’m going attempt to decode the TV Teddy audio track embedded in a TV Teddy video programme, and...
Nick LansleyOct 4, 20172 minHow can you prove you’re not in a computer simulation?I’ve enjoyed read this article in Cosmos Magazine, that has concluded that we cannot live in computer simulation of the kind indicated in...
Nick LansleySep 26, 20172 minCompressing MacOS / OSX files transparently using AFSCTOOLAs my Macbook Pro goes through a phase of getting full and needing to have its disk swept of old files from time to time, I wish that...
Nick LansleySep 10, 201711 minI’ve had published a new Alexa Skill (How-to walkthrough)This article is long in order to provide a step-by-step guide to how I wrote my Alexa Skill. Never too old to learn, I wanted to...
Nick LansleyOct 1, 20167 minPython code that suggests you are unlikely to win the Euromillions Lottery jackpot(…or any other state, national or international lottery for that matter!) I know: the Europe-wide Euromillions Lottery pays tens of...
Nick LansleySep 27, 20163 minJavaScript? My web browser runs Python! And BASIC! and…%CODEBRYTHONCLOCK% If you’re reading this in a modern web browser window you should see a clock at the top of this post. Nice clock!...
Nick LansleyJul 5, 20162 minIPv6 and Ubuntu / Debian / Raspberry Pi slow updatesIf your Ubuntu / Debian / Raspberry Pi operating system suddenly has difficulty trying to reach Google and other popular web sites, and...
Nick LansleySep 2, 20151 minA file compression experimentI wanted to make an archive backup of my Parallels Windows 10 virtual machine file. The file itself is 54.51 GB, and I used Keka, a...
Nick LansleyJul 31, 20151 minHow to ‘force’ your Windows PC to upgrade to Windows 10 nowIf you have a Windows 7 or 8 PC and you really can’t wait until Microsoft gets round to sending you the upgrade application, you can get...