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TL;DR; Make a map of the original and/or fixed coordinates of the hydrological stations of the BAFU using the data from Lindas The above map is an illustration of the …

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TL;DR; Get the up-to-date data from LINDAS of the currently available values discharge / water level/water temperatures for all BAFU stations. This one took quite some time and serves as …

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Retry a request or other function that may timeout with exponentially increasing time between retries

VPN clients are often used to get access to internal infrastructure. Often I had to use them to enter time tracking, connect to servers or similar. However, on my usual …

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TL;DR; Use the below code to insert one image onto another at a fixed position (scaled down). The code below draws an image onto another existing picture. The use case …

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TL;DR; The below code can be added as a script to your page to implement a touchdown event detection and directly attach it to a “menu” element Handling a touchdown …

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Get census data from the Basler Atlas automatically

Extract GIF frames to numpy array and/or save as files.

Sample the OTT Parsivel2 connected via serial to a Linux device via Python and output data as ASDO-CSV and/or netCDF4

A small Python script to replace properties in a SVG, like replacing color.

Make videos from a lot of files in a folder with ffmpeg.

Convert WGS 84 to CH1903 and vice versa,