A brief update on this blog

A quick note ...

I recently started porting this blog from Wordpress to Pelican.

Bit by bit, the old articles and photo galleries are being updated and added again to the blog.

A quick and dirty path finding algorithm for .shp files

The 'Problem'

Let's assume, you have a set of paths (lines) in a .shp file and try to come up with a way to create one .shp file for every possible combination of paths between a point A and a point B ... Trying to brute force this can be quite …

How to create full HD time lapses with Python, ImageMagick and libav

I found myself in need of a small piece of code to create a time lapse movie from a couple of pictures I took a while ago ...

As it turns out my favorite tool to do that (ffmpeg) got forked and is now available on Debian Jessie as part of …

Atmospheric re-entry

A chance encounter

You're out and about trying to take some pictures of the Northern Lights and then you see this ...

A colleague checked and apparently it was a fuel stage of an old Roskosmos SL-3 rocket, re-entering the atmosphere... I'm in awe!