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Boost your legacy apps with Svelte 3 components

June 21, 2019

There sure has been some well deserved fuzz around Svelte 3 lately, but maybe not enough? It's an amazing light-weight framework without a heavy runtime and with very little overhead. This makes it a suitable choice for more than just SPAs and isomorphic web apps. Did you know t [Read More]

Generate merged GeoTIFF imagery from web maps (xyz tile servers) with Python

June 5, 2019

This guide will show you how to programmatically download map imagery from a web map (often referred to as slippy maps) tile server, georeference it and save it as a GeoTIFF. The GeoTIFF image can later be used for other purposes, in my case I used it to colorize a LIDAR data poi [Read More]

Android programming and some Vue.js and OSM stuff

May 9, 2016

I’ve been rather inactive here for a while. The main reason is that I’m currently working on my graduation project. I’m doing it at a company in an other town which means I’m never at home except during the weekends. This has forced me to put the home automation project on put, a [Read More]

Easter mapping (and fishing)

March 26, 2016

Open source and outdoor life; I’m trying to include both of these fabulous things during this weekend when I’m visiting my parents over Easter. This post differs a little bit from my normal programming- and electronics posts. But hey, it’s important to sometimes take a break from [Read More]

Home Automation - DB design and I/O types

March 14, 2016

Read the introduction to my home automation project here if you haven’t already: http://jimmyutterstrom.com/2016/03/home-automation-plans/ The foundation of the home automation system is the MQTT communication interface. As all connected devices will communicate through the MQTT [Read More]