I made an interactive art installation on this question once: A black box with a knob where you could adjust how much time you have, then it would offer you (Google streetview) panoramas of the locations it found within your distance, and in the end even print a paper slip with your travel itinerary to take with you.
The installation used realtime data (Google directions API): I somehow figured out, that if I would run this from a local machine and reset the browser frequently, Google would let me do this even without an API key… they certainly sensed something was awry and I did get API warnings and captchas because of 'suspicious traffic on my network', but they were nice enough not to block me completely. I strongly doubt this would still work though, this was in 2017.
I have been wishing Apple or Google maps would add this as a feature for at least five years now. When I’m in a new city for work, and I know I have 90 minutes til my next meeting, it would be massively helpful to see every lunch place in a 15-25 minute walking radius. The fact that there’s still not a “search/filter by transit time” feature in any Maps app seems like proof there’s not enough competition in that space in 2022.
I'm shocked how many apps rely on the google maps widget. It's expensive and mediocre, and ridiculously flaky on my phone.
The web touch UI is laughable, but at least the average third party occluding widget size keeps growing on mobile web pages -- I wouldn't want more than 10% of my phablet screen to be wasted displaying the map I just pulled up, after all!
I started a similar project a few years ago and the real problem for any new player is just data availability. I was able to get Open Street Map data, but I also needed data on businesses with ratings and photos. IMO this creates a huge moat against anyone entering the market.
I made this app a bunch of years ago where I sourced events starting in the next 0-3 hours nearby. Unfortunately not enough people had this problem. Still found it useful.
Have you tried a "restaurants near X" query? In my experience it's smart enough to calibrate "near" to your surroundings (walking distance in cities, driving distance in suburbia).
Before I had a car, or at times when I don't feel like driving, one of the problems I have is friends who always want to find a place to meet that is "between" us or "near me" where they use an Euclidian metric rather than a public transit time metric.
Very often "within a 10 minute walk of ANY train station" is preferable to "halfway between us", even if the train ride is 1 hour, because I can actually work (or catch up on sleep) on a train. Especially if that "halfway between us" is somewhere without transit which means I need to drive the whole way there.
Very cool. Slightly reminds me of an app I made for fun a few years ago that created a visual diary of your location history over the past 48 hours by pairing it with Google Streetview imagery.
I'll probably get downvoted into oblivion for mentioning blockchain tech, but this might at least help, maybe not in its current form but... I did not follow that project, but there do exist some concepts in this direction, e.g. this: https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/12/numbers-protocols-blockcha...
The idea of having a public record that attests to when an event happened is interesting, although not sure it has to be blockchain for it to be useful.
The article is an overview aimed at beginners, but as such actually pretty good and helpful. It does not seem to overtly promote their product. Classifying this as spam / SEO only because one is not the target group is not fair.
Yes it was, but is it automatically bad because of this? It would be if it would be unhelpful, low-quality or if it would contain deceitful content pushing their product – but I do not see any of this.
I'm not the type of person who would maintain such a catalogue, but thinking about the scenario: I'll take 15 min tomorrow to run through my flat and just photograph everything. That way, in case disaster strikes (knock on wood it never does!), I do have some proof and only have to do the tedious cataloguing when it's actually needed… so, thanks i guess!
not what he/she uses, but if you are interested in these kind of things, check out https://cables.gl/ .
it provides you with an in-browser, graphical, node based interface where you can just connect boxes together and it will output js-code ready to implement in your website.
hm, i just tested this on my macbook and the way it seems to work is certainly breaking live visuals, but at the same time does not protect people from being recorded: if i start an audio recording and then watch a film fullscreen, the orange dot does show, but then vanishes (while still recording the audio). not sure if this is intentional or a bug, but it would certainly render my computer unusable for quite some work i do. audiovisuals almost always are reactive to sound in one way or or another, so you do record the ambient audio for your video or installation be able to react to it.
As (according to the article) all of these cables carry little chips broadcasting the standards they support – couldn't this be just some little software app which just reads out that cable info?
The article is actually wrong on that point: many USB-C cables do not have any chip, only the ones which have extra capabilities (like being able to carry 5A of current instead of only 3A) need to have a chip.
I think you misread the article. It consistent refers to the connector on the cables as "cable end", and the places you plug these cable ends into as "ports". It says that the ports are the ones that broadcast the capabilities.
As someone recently having gone through that: The cancellation experience is bad, but nothing compared to the experience of then deinstalling Adobe CC. After some fixing I did get my machine to at least boot without throwing error messages, but I still see Adobe stuff hanging around my system. Ugh.
I’m convinced it’s literally impossible to remove it from your machine. I once ran tree on root before and after installing so I would know exactly what to remove when I was done with the project. And I was absolutely determined to remove every trace of it. I probably spent days in total attempting to rid my machine of the malware before giving up. It’s everywhere. And when you remove it their sneaky pings home (even after you’re no longer a customer!) find a way to put it right back on your machine.
The people behind Blender, Figma, etc. are doing a public service as far as I’m concerned. The sooner Adobe dies as a company the better.
Yeah. It isn't fun whith an outgoing firewall, there's always a new service trying to connect to some server, whith such funky names that you kinda have to verify that it's an official server before you greenlight it.
I'm wondering if they (or a third party) gonna make use of Windows 365 cloud PC's with Creative Cloud preinstalled and just sell access to it when needed.
I've had this opinion for years: Adobe is the Microsoft of creative software. They're gigantic and ubiquitous, but their software is miserable garbage and they don't care.
I luckily only ever did web design with their software, and Sketch has been a viable tool for me for about 5 years so I am not trapped in their ecosystem.
Their software is pretty great. They're behind on some things because they are a slow behemoth, but by and large their software is polished and feature-heavy and in many cases the industry standard.
