Gosh. I just emailed myself a .png of the barcode containing my library card number and open it in, like, the Photos or Gmail app when I'm at the kiosk.
They did specify that this was the hard way. :-)
Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
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#22Only slightly related but my preferred way to generate barcodes is the barcode writer in pure postcsript. https://bwipp.terryburton.co.uk/
Thanks for posting, I've never seen this before and it's absolutely fantastic
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#23Oooh, now do Orca cards next. Seattle is one of the tech capitals of the United States, and on top of the metro system just being not great, it's also technically inferior to nearly every single other major city that I've used public transit. Pick any European city, CDMX, Denver. They're all light years ahead of Seattle. Denver might have been my favorite. Fun fact, one of the orgs that runs Orca actually wrote a blo…
I wonder how much it costs to maintain a system to collect fares compared the small portion of funding most transit systems would lose from going fare free.
Re: Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
#24Oooh, now do Orca cards next. Seattle is one of the tech capitals of the United States, and on top of the metro system just being not great, it's also technically inferior to nearly every single other major city that I've used public transit. Pick any European city, CDMX, Denver. They're all light years ahead of Seattle. Denver might have been my favorite. Fun fact, one of the orgs that runs Orca actually wrote a blo…
Google Wallet will soon support this (from a few days ago): https://blog.google/products/google-pay/commute-around-the-w...
edit: linking to Google's blog directly
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#25Pass4wallet is a nice app for that, if you’re ok with your pass data being (according to their privacy policy) sent to their server, signed and then deleted.
I came here looking for this. The write-up is interesting for a deep dive in Apple interfacing… obviously though is too involved for a simple library card. Thanks.
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#26This is indeed the hard way.
I just used Stocard to scan my library card barcodes. Done.
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#27I solved this problem by taking a photograph of my library card. To check out a book, I load the picture and hold it up to the scanner.
I added an image of my barcode to a location based reminder, so it pops up in a notification when I go to my local library.
That's amazing. Truly. I'm assuming you're on iPhone. Anyone know if there is a way to do this in Android?
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#28This was a great blogpost, but then ends with:
> I will note that I have not yet tested this pass in a real library yet
I get this project was mostly for fun, but why not spend the 10 minutes it takes to test the final solution before sharing your work?
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#29Those cheap laser "1D" bar code scanners cannot read off a screen (except maybe eInk). It sucks because the supermarkets I frequent have their loyalty cards based off barcodes. Fortunately, barcode readers emulate keyboards so you can just type the code on a keyboard.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I added an image of my barcode to a location based reminder, so it pops up in a notification when I go to my local library.
That's amazing. Truly. I'm assuming you're on iPhone. Anyone know if there is a way to do this in Android?
If you use Google Keep for the note, it's easy to do