ESPHome does not simplify deployment enough in my taste. Let’s deploy ESP32s with Ansible!
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Stravomatic: an Android app to automatically start Strava rides
This week-end I remembered that when I got my new phone, it counted my steps on its own, and I looked up why. I discovered that there’s a Google Play Service that enables developers to get the user’s activity (walking, running, cycling etc) and I decided to try to code my first Android app: Stravomatic….
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How to act like an idiot and cost a free software project money
A few monthes ago, a user made us a €5 donation for Claws Mail’s Windows version. Then asked me over email and Facebook friend request for support on “error messages that pop is starting up prior to sm something da da da” (actual quote). I just replied that this seemed like he’d need to…
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iReport: adding QRCode to Jasper reports the easy way
After testing various complicated solutions to embed a QR Code into iReport Jasper reports, the easiest way I’ve found is this: 1) Put ZXing’s Core and JavaSE jars in the classpath (using Tools/Options/Classpath if compiling locally, or the classpath property if using Ant and net.sf.jasperreports.ant.JRAntCompileTask) ZXing Core jar ZXing JavaSE jar 2) Add an image…
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Panorama, Hugin, Stellarium and three.js: Creating equirectangular panos
It’s been a long time since I didn’t post any geek stuff here, so here we go. At last! I’ve recently installed Stellarium, which is a great planetarium software, helping a lot to figure out what’s above our heads at a given time, what will be, or what has been, which is great to learn…
2012/12/30 Continue reading...
