Time for something new…

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So, maybe you’re noticing a new look here. Or maybe this is your first time here. Either way, welcome to the new (and hopefully) improved raymondcamden.com, my little home on the internet. For the past few weeks, I’ve been sharing my experience using GenAI to generate a blog theme on my YouTube channel. My plan was to share those results here and ask folks which theme they thought would be best. I still plan on sharing those results here, but yesterday while frustrated and anxious, I decided, screw it, one theme really spoke to me, and it’s the one you see here. While I know I’ve still got stuff to fix here and there, I’m really happy with this update and I hope... more →
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Sending an Alert for Short Wait Time at Disney

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Yesterday I had some fun with a web app that made use of APIs to report on rides with the shortest wait times at amusement parks. This was done via the excellent, and free, Queue Times service. The application I built let you select a park, and then rides were displayed sorted by the shortest wait time. While working with the API, I also had another idea for a useful service – notifications for short wait times. Imagine you’re at Disney, or any amusement park, and while you’re there, you would like to be notified when rides have a short wait time. How could you automate this? For now, let’s skip the ‘hard part’ of imagining the service that would let you sign... more →
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How to Set Date Time from Mac Command Line

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Working on a web extension that ships to an app store and isn’t immediately modifiable, like a website, can be difficult. Since you cannot immediately deploy updates, you sometimes need to bake in hardcoded date-based logic. Testing future dates can be difficult if you don’t know how to quickly change the date on your local machine. To change the current date on your Mac, execute the following from command line: # Date Format: MMDDYYYY sudo date -I 06142024 This command does not modify time, only the current date. Using the same command to reset to current date is easy as well! The post How to Set Date Time from Mac Command Line appeared first on David Walsh Blog. David Walsh... more →
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Mapping in Time & Space

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The ESA Star Mapper visualisation is an interactive map of the Universe. It allows you to explore in 3D 59,921 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue.  If you select the ‘Motion’ option at the bottom of the map you can view an animated visualiztion of how stars move through space. You can orient yourself on the map by turning on star names, the outline of the constellations, and/or a graticule of Maps Mania… more →
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Real Time World Temperature Records

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The pace of global heating in 2022 means that it is now possible to create a real-time map showing locations around the world where all-time temperature records are being broken. In just the last 24 hours two locations in the U.S. have experienced their highest ever recorded temperatures (Cotulla, TX & Escanaba, MI). It isn’t only in America where heat records are now being broken on a daily Maps Mania… more →
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