A rantbox
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
A few weeks ago I started noticing an odd problem: my Pebble Time Steel didn't want to update its various apps anymore. The watchface showed stale weather data, the public transports apps didn't want to tap into the latest departure times and so on. This of course annoyed me a …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in howto
Edit at 2017-01-21: see the comments about better ways, especially comment 6.
Secure Settings (Google Play) is a really helpful app to help Tasker (Google Play) do things automatically on your Android device.
However, it has not been updated for quite a while (January 2015 at the time of this …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in family
In the night of Sunday to Monday, at 4:17, Nienke rushed into this world. Where Daan took his time being delivered, I was barely awake (Ineke woke me at 4:01) when Nienke saw her first lamplight.
Needless to say, she was born at home, in the tub where …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Today it's 12 years ago I officially started this weblog and I finally have taken some steps to get the next generation of the codebase working on my server. It's getting there, looking forward to continue dammIT in its Django incarnation :)
This year has been fascinating; junior went from barely …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in projects
I made a thing: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nsapi.
You can use it with my other thing at https://github.com/aquatix/ns-notifications to get notified when your train is late, or to know when you can do a sprint upstairs on the next station because your otherwise impossible …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
You might be in that same situation as I was until recently: you open up your ssh config file and start scrolling through the long list of nicely aliased private machines, that organically grown list of work - project A and the comment-section-divided work - project B, work - misc, work - are these …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in howto
If you don't know Tasker go and check it out now. It's by far the greatest way to automate, well, about everything on your Android device and its surroundings.
However, one thing it is not, is really easy to start with. If you tap through the interface for the first …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
After having one of our Hangouts videocalls, I started looking into why the browser plugin takes so much CPU-time (and makes the laptop hot and breezy in the process). Is stumbled upon the article How to tell if you're using hardware acceleration and dove into my own about:support page …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in family
You might remember Public service announcement on this Mother's Day which I posted, well, a little over two years ago.
This post is a bit related to that old one. I present to you evidence piece C at the project launch on our family site. I guess my life really …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
The ants didn't know what they had coming. I almost pitied the little critters. Almost. Finishing my whisky I went to bed, chuckling softly.