One of my favorite parts to build in APSE was the way it handles light and dark backgrounds. Text recognition algorithms are tuned for black letters on a white background, like a printed page:
Usually this isn't a problem, because you can invert the colors if an image has light …
Two of the older projects I have run for some time now are Needs More Lens Flare, a toy web app for automatically adding lens flare to photos, and Drone Stable, a more robust web application for automatically stabilizing aerial (or any kind of) video.
I am afraid I don't …
Class-based views in Django are super handy. Among other things, you can create a view listing all instances of a model with about two lines of code.
One of the features of this ListView is the ability to customize the queryset used to populate the view. Suppose you wanted a …
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the next big thing in space-based observatories. The project will enable never-been-done-before research, revealing astronomy and physics discoveries about dark matter, our galaxy, and more.
It has been in the news for delays in its launch schedule. If you ever need to know how …
It's been a while since I have written about Apse here. I've still been working on it, and am happy to announce version 2.0 is now offically released! 😄
This is a substantial improvement over version 1. Both performance and general usage have seen big upgrades. I'm very happy with …
One of the challenges in flying drones in public airspace is the need to peacefully coexist with everyone else. Emergency first responders like firefighters don't need quadcopters buzzing around, getting in their way.
Some consumer-level drones already have a "return to home" feature, where the drone automatically …
I have been working on Apse for about a year now. Up until a few days ago, I didn't know of any other software like it.
Earlier this week, Pinboard turned 10. It was one of my inspirations for Apse! Maciej's writing is gold, and his post to commemorate the …
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!