Just used a $25 travel router flashed with OpenWRT to create a permanent Wireguard gateway from my grandparent’s old apartment to my apartment so I can access my server. Usually I use site-to-site between routers, but their building contract doesn’t allow for using your own router.
Week: 48
MapI read it when it first came out. Very shocking and powerful book
I like this much better than a coach seat.
In my bedroom on the Autotrain…they are putting the train together. After that, we get into Sanford FL just before 9am tomorrow.
Simple Location 4.2.0 Released
Simple Location version 4.2.0 has been released. In edition to several under the hood improvements, such as standardizing units of measurement for the various weather providers and adding new optional parameters, it introduces the option of a custom and a fallback weather provider. The custom provider allows you to specify custom stations at designated URLs. The stations should return a json object with latitude and longitude as well as any provided weather properties as identified in the system. I’d love it if people implemented this simple json file and allowed others to pull weather data from them.
I built this feature for myself. Using my own weather data when possible has been a desire of mine. Now, my website is set to compare my location to that of the custom stations I’ve designated, in this case two under my control. If I am close, it will use that data. If not, it will go to the fallback provider. The same fallback can be set for regional providers, like the US National Weather service and the Met Office, in case you wander into untracked territory.
The functionality also works for the weather in my sidebar, where you’ll see additional parameters such as the readings from my particulate sensors and any sensors I add in the future.
Attending IndieWebCamp SF
This coming weekend I will be attending IndieWebCamp SF. I enjoy attending IndieWebCamps for my time off from my day job.
I am once again co-organizing and once again volunteering to handle the video for the intros, sessions and demos. This means I will be bringing the equipment to record the sessions, which will be ultimately available online. You can watch our last event, in Berlin Germany, here. The intros, demos, and keynote are not yet up, but I’ve added most of the sessions. You can see examples of those at the prior event in Brighton UK, available here.
IndieWebCamps are a great place to talk about creating or updating your own website and the technologies or ideas around it. The first day involves sessions, the topics for which are chosen by the attendees. The second day is when you build and demo something you built the previous day.
It is a fun event at a minimal cost. If you are in the area, why not stop by?
My sleep tracking system just emailed me two years after I asked to tell me how I can export my sleep data in json format. What should I do with the data?