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Nick Lansley
Jan 12, 20193 min read
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, 20181 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20188 min read
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, 20187 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 201711 min read
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, 20167 min read
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, 20163 min read
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, 20161 min read
Test if your web browser is ‘truly random’
#canvas #javascript #random
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Nick Lansley
Jul 5, 20162 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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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