Nick Lansley
The Daily Peacehaven Timelapse Video
A couple of posts ago I wrote about the ‘WeatherPi’ Raspberry Pi that collects the latest weather readings every 10 minutes and make a...
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Nick Lansley
- Dec 30, 2018
- 1 min
Live 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...
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Nick Lansley
- May 13, 2018
- 3 min
Decoding TV Teddy Part Four – The Search For Encoding That Works
If you’ve been following my articles on reverse-engineering the TV Teddy soundtrack embedded in the video picture, then you may have...
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Nick Lansley
- Mar 24, 2018
- 8 min
Decoding TV Teddy – Part Three: Encoding a new TV Teddy Video
In 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...
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Nick Lansley
- Mar 18, 2018
- 7 min
Decoding TV Teddy – Part Two: Programming and Audio Output
As 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...
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Nick Lansley
- Oct 4, 2017
- 2 min
How 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...
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Nick Lansley
- Sep 26, 2017
- 2 min
Compressing MacOS / OSX files transparently using AFSCTOOL
As 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...
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Nick Lansley
- Sep 10, 2017
- 11 min
I’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...
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Nick Lansley
- Oct 1, 2016
- 7 min
Python 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...
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Nick Lansley
- Sep 27, 2016
- 3 min
JavaScript? 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!...
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Nick Lansley
- Jul 8, 2016
- 1 min
Test if your web browser is ‘truly random’
#canvas #javascript #random
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Nick Lansley
- Jul 5, 2016
- 2 min
IPv6 and Ubuntu / Debian / Raspberry Pi slow updates
If your Ubuntu / Debian / Raspberry Pi operating system suddenly has difficulty trying to reach Google and other popular web sites, and...
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Nick Lansley
- Sep 2, 2015
- 1 min
A file compression experiment
I 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...
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Nick Lansley
- Jul 31, 2015
- 1 min
How to ‘force’ your Windows PC to upgrade to Windows 10 now
If 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...
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