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OpenWeather – Local Weather API for IoT

August 20, 2024
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I was looking around for an easy to use weather API to get simple weather information. I found OpenWeather and the free version allowed me to do all that I wanted. Latitude/Longitude All the weather APIs require that you furnish the latitude and longitude for the location you are querying. You can look it up by ZIP code.… Read More »

Images in Documents

February 21, 2023
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I like to write documents that incorporate a little bit of fun. To do this, I will add occasional sections with whimsical images – sort of like “Dummies Guide to” style. In my Word or PDF documents, I attribute by creating a Credits section at the front of the document with the images I used in a line: