Tagged: Free and Open Source
I recently contributed some imagery to the panoramax project. It’s like Street View but is open and free. Then I saw that the panoramax exposes STAC APIs. I wanted to know more about STAC, which led me down a rabbit hole.
Today was election day here in Bengaluru. I voted against Fascism. After voting, Appa and I went to see Kammsandra Kere (lake). It was redone and inaugurated last year. The lake work seemed okay, but there was not even a single drop of water. I wonder if baragala (drought) has been declared in Bengaluru. I think we are in a drought.
I wrote the Surveillance in Bangalore leaderboard using Budibase a while ago. However, I was not impressed with Budibase’s latest changes, so I replaced it with the good old Node-Red flow. Node-Red is already running at my home, so installing it was not required. Since the data was always stored on my instance of CouchDB, I didn’t have to do any migration there. I moved the automation to Node-Red And viewed it using HTML and CouchDB Views.
The reason why I like blogging could be a strange thing. I am not a writer; I am not even good at expressing myself or my thoughts in words. But what I am is a compulsive and obsessive documenter. I like to document things, and I have done so since I was a...
Recently, I wanted to embed a 360-degree panoramic image inside an HTML page. Many third-party viewers are available, but I wanted a simple, self-hosted version. This quest led me down a research rabbit hole, where I spent more time than necessary. This is what I learned, in simple words.
I have been using apps to track my baby’s progress. I mostly use self-hostable web apps that I can host on my home server or Android apps that work offline. All of which are FOSS. Except for the Milestone tracking apps :( They are not FOSS, but they are taxpayer-funded and freely available.