My rantings

  • Crestuma-Lever Dam

    Crestuma-Lever Dam

    Drone’s eye view of Crestuma-Lever Dam with the flood gates open. The Crestuma-Lever Dam on the river Douro creates the reservoir for water supply to the city of Porto. You can see the original on Flickr, I also contributed the photo to Wikipedia.

  • DJI Mavic Mini Flight Modes

    Changing the DJI Mavic Mini flight mode to get smoother footage for your videos. Shot on a very gray day on the banks of the river Douro this video also gives some insight on the excellent video capture quality that you can get from your Mavic Mini,

  • after the storm

    after the storm

    see photo on flickr

  • DJI Mavic Mini Unboxing

    Finally I received my DJI Mavic Mini and decided to do an unboxing video. It’s de “Fly More” combo, with three batteries, a charger and really good case, among some other stuff.

  • How to change GIT branch in Microsoft Azure App Service

    How to change GIT branch in Microsoft Azure App Service

    TLDR: in Configuration / Application settings, create a setting named “deployment_branch” with the name of the GIT branch you whant yo use. Update: I no longer use Microsoft Azure so information on this post may be outdated. So… me, here, writing about a Microsoft product, Azure. I have had some projects that have had to…

  • Há sempre uma primeira vez…

    Há sempre uma primeira vez…

    Pois, há sempre uma primeira vez, de muitas coisas nem nos apercebemos que estamos a fazer algo pela primeira vez, de outras apercebemos-mos muito bem, ontem fiz a minha primeira PCB. Tive que andar com o X-Acto a cortar contactos que não deviam ter existido, houve uns contactos que por algum motivo não passaram no…

  • Potenciómetro, Médias e LEDs, [arduino]

    Uma pequena experiência com leitura de potenciómetro, smoothing dos valores lidos e  activação de LEDs de acordo com média. Baseado no tuturial Smoothing (http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Smoothing) do Arduino com adição dos LEDs.

  • Matadouro

  • ataques automatizados ao ssh, que passwords

    No ISC diary um artigo interessante sobre as passwords mais tentadas nos ataques automatizados ao SSH. O top 10: 123456 = 167854 (1.09%) password = 113640 (0.74%) cacutza = 99492 (0.65%) __–_-__-_ = 79153 (0.51%) 123 = 63557 (0.41%) root = 61560 (0.4%) 1234 = 58103 (0.38%) 123456789 = 57270 (0.37%) 12345 = 53445 (0.35%)…

  • “NightFall” – Los Angeles em time lapse

    via brainstorm9

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