I wanted the very cool images from JWST as my desktop background. And I figured that NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) would contain a lot of these and so I looked around for utilities that would modify the background by pulling new APOD images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I found https:\/\/github.com\/randomdrake\/nasa-apod-desktop<\/a> but decided to fork it into https:\/\/github.com\/kaytat\/nasa-apod-desktop<\/a>. There are some minor updates for Python 3, a script usable via cron, and some small feature enhancements related to aspect ratio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wanted the very cool images from JWST as my desktop background. And I figured that NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) would contain a lot of these and so I looked around for utilities that would modify the background by pulling new APOD images. I found https:\/\/github.com\/randomdrake\/nasa-apod-desktop but decided to fork it into … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techgadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}