February 2022
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In partnership with Teams for a Better Planet, the Wikimedia Foundation will present a workshop dealing with the global climate crisis – Race to Net Zero. This workshop will have interactive, team-building sessions with educational content, discussions and innovative approaches to problem-solving. The goal is to present clear, actionable information about the causes of climate change and the solutions we must rapidly scale to meet this challenge, and to host conversations to help build our community of practice. We are excited to encourage active peer-to-peer learning, reflection, and thoughtful discussions that will bring teams closer together while empowering individuals to take action.
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I’ve been experimenting with GPSLogger rather than Overland to upload GPS tracks from my phone, but I can’t get it to work reliable when it can’t access the API. It seems fine when it has no network access at all, but if it has any then it assumes it’ll have API access and seems to throw data away when it sends into the void. Overland is simpler and so far more reliable. It’s only downside is that the Android version doesn’t seem actively maintained.
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Big question of the day: which Bunnings is going to have a sausage sizzle?!
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I’m getting closer to having about ten years’ GPS traces loaded into the same database that contains metadata of all my photos. I did an experiment this morning with how to get it to suggest locations for ungeotagged photos, and it’s super easy. I’m really excited! Bit of a milestone in finally sorting out a whole bunch of old photos.
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Sometimes, being a programmer feels like it just means that I spend my spare time building software for my own purposes, with some idea that each is a necessary step towards doing what I actually want to get done. Of course, the lie of this is that I like writing code, and so the fact that every problem looks like it needs more code is quite natural. I find that it can be stressful when I don’t acknowledge this (i.e. working on something because it’s a stepping-stone towards the “actual work”), but when I give up and just work on the code because it’s fun in itself then it feels calm and easy! It also might be useful… but it might not be, and that’s okay too.
Last night I was working on adding location-tracking to my website, so I can upload photos and have the website suggest approximate locations for them. I just went out for a coffee, and now have a nice track of where I went. There’s probably a downside to storing hundreds of thousands of points, but (oh well) at least it’s entertaining me…