Two years after the Idaho-based company Solar Roadways exceeded its crowdfunding goal of $1 million for constructing roads that gather solar power, the company has completed its first public installation in the City of Sandpoint, Idaho, where there are 30 tiles currently installed. New Atlas reports: The 150 sq ft (14 sq m) installation in Sandpoint's Jeff Jones Town Square is made up of 30 SR3 panels. Where Solar Roadways' second generation prototype was a 36-watt panel, the SR3 is the same size but is rated at 48 W, made possible by replacing the panel mounting holes with edge connectors. The new units each include four heating elements to help keep the installation free of snow and ice and over 300 brighter, daylight readable LEDs with over 16 million available colors. Though now laid down and switched on, not everything went exactly to plan with the installation. Manufacturing difficulties meant that some of the SR3 panels were not fully operational at the time of the public reveal. The working units were placed in the center of the grid and surrounded by dead panels. Solar Roadways aims to swap out the non-working units as soon as possible. Sandpoint officials plan to allow the public to interact with and modify the light show soon, and future plans for the town square include free public Wi-Fi and the roll out of electric vehicle charging stations. You can view the live stream of the Solar Roadways installation here.

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Sound Off is raising money for childcare at Affect, a new conference in Portland. The goal is to pay for two childcare providers by raising $2400.

Here’s the thing: everybody who wants to should be able to go to conferences. Everybody should be able to learn things, meet new people, and help other people.

Just because you have a child who needs care shouldn’t disqualify you. Simple as that.

Affect is a “2-day event about the work, culture, and design of social change.”

Sound Off is raising money for childcare at Affect, a new conference in Portland. The goal is to pay for two childcare providers by raising $2400.

Here’s the thing: everybody who wants to should be able to go to conferences. Everybody should be able to learn things, meet new people, and help other people.

Just because you have a child who needs care shouldn’t disqualify you. Simple as that.

Affect is a “2-day event about the work, culture, and design of social change.”

Beneath the calm in the Kurdish region is a deep well of suspicion as the looming battle for Iraq's Mosul fast approaches.

Beneath the calm in the Kurdish region is a deep well of suspicion as the looming battle for Iraq's Mosul fast approaches.

Some person-to-person payment services have added iMessage app versions, letting you text money to friends. Glenn Fleishman explains the P2P payment space and looks at the iMessage apps for payment services Circle, Square, and Venmo.

 

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Some person-to-person payment services have added iMessage app versions, letting you text money to friends. Glenn Fleishman explains the P2P payment space and looks at the iMessage apps for payment services Circle, Square, and Venmo.

 

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IFTTT doesn't like this feed

davewiner

For some reason IFTTT.com never detects updates to this feed.

http://scripting.com/misc/nightlyLinks.xml

I have a recipe that follows this feed. A new item appears in the feed every night at midnight. It's supposed to send me an email when a new item appears. Never get an email. In the log IFTTT shows no updates. Started the recipe on September 9. Crickets.

They asked me, on Twitter, to submit a bug report, but they said they might not respond. I did, and true to their word, they haven't responded. So I thought I might put this out there to the Scripting News brain trust, and see if you all have an idea. 

There's never more than one item in the feed. Which isn't a problem as far as RSS is concerned. I wonder if that's the problem for IFTTT. 

Any suggestions welcome and appreciated.

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IFTTT doesn't like this feed

davewiner

For some reason IFTTT.com never detects updates to this feed.

http://scripting.com/misc/nightlyLinks.xml

I have a recipe that follows this feed. A new item appears in the feed every night at midnight. It's supposed to send me an email when a new item appears. Never get an email. In the log IFTTT shows no updates. Started the recipe on September 9. Crickets.

They asked me, on Twitter, to submit a bug report, but they said they might not respond. I did, and true to their word, they haven't responded. So I thought I might put this out there to the Scripting News brain trust, and see if you all have an idea. 

There's never more than one item in the feed. Which isn't a problem as far as RSS is concerned. I wonder if that's the problem for IFTTT. 

Any suggestions welcome and appreciated.

Both sides vow to "fix" issues after voters rejected a peace accord with the Marxist group to end 52 years of war.