I have been able to add a lot of great stuff to Apse lately. Version 1.5 lets you manually trigger a snapshot from the system tray, along with many bugfixes.
Version 1.6 also has some great improvements. The UI has been made more clear in several places, and …
How do video codecs work? How do they compress video into such tiny filesizes? A modern video codec is pretty complex, but you can get a pretty good idea of how they work at a high level.
Codec is short for COder/DECoder …
I've been working on improving Apse since I initially released it two months ago. Version 1.4 is now available. There are some exciting new features!
The FAA allows pilots to fly drones for commercial operations if they obey part 107 rules. They also pilots who meet sufficient safety requirements to operate outside the normal regulations via a waiver.
I had been compiling information on the number of part 107 pilots, and thought it would be …
APSE is an application I created to help me find things on my computer. It stands for A Personal Search Engine.
Apse is a desktop application that works as a search engine for anything that you see on your computer. As you use your computer, it captures …
reCAPTCHA is a system to prevent spam and abuse of web services. It's easy to integrate with Django. There are three steps to using v3 reCAPTCHA in your web app:
First, register a …
Here are some statistics on drone pilot activity in the US. I obtained all the data from publicly available sources on faa.gov. The data is current as of November 1, 2018. If this is interesting or you want more information, get in touch.
As of November …
Here are some statistics on drone pilot activity in the US. I obtained all the data from publicly available sources on faa.gov. The data is current as of October 1, 2018. If this is interesting or you want more information, get in touch.
As of October …
BOGO (Basically Optimal Graphics Ontology) is a lossless image compression format. BOGO derives its name from bogosort. Unlike traditional computationally-wasteful image formats that let your underutilized CPU sit around idle, BOGO maximizes your computer's time spent doing what it loves: computing.
Contrary to rumor, BOGO does not stand for Blockchain-Oriented …
Photos from the 2018 Howe Ridge fire in Glacier National Park