Some years ago I had a cherry blossom tree I planted in my backyard - this was based on one of my photos of it one spring. Still makes me smile.

See prints, etc. here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/yoshino-cherry-blossoms-mark-e-tisdale.html

#CherryBlossom #flowers #floral #pink #DigitalArt #painting #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

Martha Stonhouse

1740s [1]
Artist Jonathan Richardson the elder
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I’ve posted before about using fitness trackers and how we’d settled on AmazFit since it was cheap and seemed to work well … Unfortunately, after a few days of use it became evident that it wasn’t doing a great job at sleep tracking 😛

It was fine for the price point but it wasn’t totally accurate. I watched some YouTube videos by the Quantified Scientist (https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuantifiedScientist) and finally settled on the Fitbit Charge 5 as being accurate enough and yet cheap enough for my needs 🙂

I generally steer away from FitBit because it doesn’t sync any data with Apple Health and that was a big no-no for me.

But needs must and so got a Fitbit Charge 5 and then began looking around for solutions to the Apple Health data syncing. There were apps around but all the ones I found were subscription based. I didn’t want to pay a subscription to synch my data and so I took a look at the FitBit API, searched for any open source solutions on GitHub and when I didn’t find anything recent/working, I decided to code my own …

It’s been a bit of an adventure, I can tell you that 🙂 I’d worked with HealthKit before but I’d forgotten most of it and so had to do a bit of reading of the docs but once I got going, it was easy enough.

It took me about a day to get sleep data to sync properly to my satisfaction. If anybody wants to talk about (and complain about 😛) syncing (and updating) Apple HealthKit data, I’m your guy for the next week or so — then I’ll probably forget most of this again.

Initially, I thought I only wanted to sync sleep and maybe my step count for the day. But once I got going, I realized that there was a lot more I wanted — heart rate, resting heart rate (which is different), and SpO2/blood oxygen levels .. I’ve got it all now.

But I’m still not done 😛 Now I want respiratory rate and skin temperature too. I guess once you get started, you just can’t stop?

The app doesn’t have much of a UI at the moment since it simply connects to the FitBit API, gets the data and syncs with Apple Health. All the UI does is show logs of the actions going on. So no point in posting a screenshot …

I’m thinking of releasing the source as an open source project so that others can compile the app for themselves too instead of having to pay subscription fees. But that requires documentation since my app is set up only to fetch personal data and so others who want to compile and run for themselves will have to know a few things about configuring the project. So maybe in a few weeks once I get everything working just right?

#Swift #Apple #HealthKit #iOS #HealthTracking

I burnt the beets. I dropped my chicken thigh. I got lunch done 1 hour 15 minutes late. My knees are killing me and I still have to catch my breath (thanks, Covid!)

But. My roast chicken is lovely and I have leftovers for tomorrow. My extra curry leaves are washed and in the freezer.

How's your day going?

A landscape image of rural Ireland at sunset.
https://pixels.com/featured/rural-ireland-john-hughes.html
#BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #NorthernIreland #Ireland #sunset

A dramatic sunset in Portstewart, Northern Ireland.
https://pixels.com/featured/irish-sunset-john-hughes.html
#BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #NorthernIreland #Ireland #sunset

Looks as if the “Trek” game re-make is continuing … at least for a bit 😛

I got some coding time yesterday and so did some more work. Now the Long Range Scanner and Short Range Scanner work and you can navigate in either scanner view by simply tapping where you want to go … So progress 🙂

Also made things look a little bit prettier … though that might be my opinion and not yours 😛

Maybe next weekend I’ll get to do some more work, I guess we’ll see … While I think Flutter would have made this even more easy to code, SwiftUI has held its own so far …

#Game #StarTrek #Coding #SwiftUI #macOS
A screenshot from WIP “Trek” ga…

Apple now has Rapid Security Updates available for users running iOS 16.4.x … they are smaller and faster updates for security vulnerabilities.

The update download took like 10 seconds but preparing the update took around one and a half minutes. The update itself was very fast and the phone restarted and was done in around 30 seconds …

The current update is 16.4.1 (a) and if you want to be sure that you are protected against the latest vulnerabilities, you might want to give it a try …

There’s apparently one for macOS as well, but I haven’t installed that yet.

#Apple #iOS #macOS #SecurityUpdates

#durdledoor #sunrise #photography #landscape

Midnight dreams. There is no longer any semblance of dark. No street lights. 24 hour Sun is still about 10 days away. #Nunavut #Arctic

#meermittwoch

Any day is a good day for #flowers but especially #flowerfriday so today I bring you a sacred pink lotus with a stained glass effect. (Not real stained glass!)

Artwork is here - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/stained-glass-lotus-square-crop-peggy-collins.html

#lotus #zen #art #artist #color #colorful #AYearForArt #mastodonart #fedigiftshop #mastoart #fediart #BuyIntoArt #peggycollins #peggycollinsgallery

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University 🌺
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#Chernivtsi

#ArtOfVietnam
#NhatTu
Spring rain
The sound of rain at midnight,
The murmur of the stream,
Smell of the flowers,
The beauty of the leaves flying or the petals falling in the wind,...
These are all things that cannot be named and imagined.
You can only enjoy and feel it with your own eyes.
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#ArtOfVietnam
#NhatTu
Four seasons in the rain
In May, the wind and rain rumble, drifting according to the will of the pen, spilling on the surface of paper,
We drift with the flow of time, weaving between the four seasons,
Meet things to meet, and also forget things to forget.
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#LosGigantes
#Tenerife
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#Ukraine
#kyiv
#KyivPecherskLavra

The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
Dormition Cathedral

#tokyocameraclub
#東京カメラ部
#私の花の写真

Morning dock off Holmes Street, Mystic, Connecticut. Watercolor, 16"x12", 140lb Arches Rough.

Usually I stay FAR away from painting water. Maybe a puddle now and then or a lake off in the distance, but never something IN water. It is very daunting, but I couldn't help but be drawn to water scenes when in Mystic and I think this turned out decent enough.

#watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela #art #mastoart