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Teaching the date command a new format
The date command from GNU coreutils finally supports the date format dd.mm.yyyy and its short form dd.mm. with
the release of coreutils-9.11 on 20 April (or as
you can now write: date -d 20.4.). From a quick glance
at Wikipedia, it’s used in over 30
countries, especially in and around Europe.
How to stream data into Grafana Live the simple way
Over at MOVE-UP we’re already using Grafana to display sensor data like altitude and speed. However, storing into and fetching it again from a database takes some seconds while we’d rather have that information live.
Inventing on Principle
I’ve only now discovered Bret Victor’s incredible talk Inventing on Principle. While you should definitely watch the entire talk, I was particularly fascinated by the tech demos.