Day: March 31, 2025💾

🗺️ Maps 🖼️ Photos 📽️ Videos
SVGZ Graphic: Median Household Income in the Capital Region (2021)
Thematic Map: The Barns of Schoharie County

What is a web log?

  • That’s a question I’ve been giving a lot of though to lately as I work on the latest revisions of the blog
  • I guess it can be anything I want as I have complete control of the content and design – within the technical limitations of my server and the WordPress platform
  • Over the years I’ve played with different designs, using mapping and GIS data in different ways
  • My latest revision to be released next week will focus a lot on aerial photography and the full screen beauty of the land
  • It’s kind of a work in progress but I’m trying to find new ways to both express myself and the world around me
  • I think it’s important to capture both the good and bad in society, both the new and old
  • I’m so fascinated and at the same time horrified when I look at both historical and new aerial photos of our changing landscape
  • So there is definitely more to look forward to next week

Watching Youtube Videos in VLC

I use external-app-launcher and yt-dlp to watch Youtube videos in VLC without ads and full-screen. By using yt-dlp, it tends to be most up to date to Youtube changes, which isn’t always the case with VLC or other players like freetube.

I have this file saved in my ~/bin directory as pyt to load the video in VLC.

#!/bin/bash
notify-send -t 15000 "Loading Youtube Video in VLC ..." "Should open in a few seconds." -i /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/symbolic/mimetypes/video-x-generic-symbolic.svg &

yt-dlp -f b --simulate --exec video:'vlc --play-and-exit --meta-title=%(title)#q %(url)#q' $1
Map: Green Mountain National Forest North