Weekend reading: "No wash" edition
- The rise of the 'no-wash' movement (Matilda Welin, BBC)
- How some people get away with doing nothing at work ( Emily Stewart, Vox)
- Travel in the Time of Climate Crisis (Rachel Nuwer, Audubon Magazine)
The engineers: New team moves in
So the engineers became proud parents. Their chicks grew up fast and pooped a lot. And while we were in Dublin, they left the nest. End of story — or so we thought.
Last Friday and Saturday, there was a flurry of activity: it turned out that we'd got a new team of engineers, and they were attempting to build a nest from scratch at the other end of the awning. I say attempting, because Sunday morning, we woke up to this: the entire nest fell down right into a pot on our terrace. 🙄
Powering Raspberry Pi Zero with a 3.7V lithium-polymer battery
While you can power a Raspberry Pi through the dedicated USB port, it's not always practical. In certain situations, drawing power from a small and thin lithium-polymer (LiPo) battery makes better sense. This is especially true for projects based on Raspberry Pi Zero, because of the board's modest power requirements. The good news is that powering the Raspberry Pi Zero using a regular 3.7V LiPo battery is cheap and relatively straightforward (some soldering is required, though).
Incorrect wiring or wrong output voltage can damage the Raspberry Pi or the battery. Working with LiPo batteries can be dangerous. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING, AND PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Weekend reading: "Dog's life" edition
- The free dogs of India (Krithika Srinivasan, Aeon)
- 'iPhones are made in hell': 3 months inside China's iPhone city (Viola Zhou, Rest of the World)
- The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified (Kate Lindsay, The Atlantic)
digiKam: Quickly group RAW and JPG files
This clever tip was shared by Paul Marfell on the digiKam Users mailing list. To keep things tidy, digiKam makes it possible to stack related JPEG and RAW files on top of each other. Doing this manually is not that difficult, but if you have to do it dozens or even hundreds of times, that can quickly become a time-consuming and laborious endeavor.