Time-lapse video of every Seattle sunset, created by engineer’s Twitter bot


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  • Monday, 26 Mar 2018

Alan Hussey uses suction cups to mount a camera to his 19th-floor window inside Smith Tower. Two hours of sunset footage are used to create a 30-second time-lapse video each day. (Dean Rutz/Seattle Times/TNS)

SEATTLE: If you've ever been stuck inside and missed what you suspected was a spectacular sunset, you can rest easy now. 

Alan Hussey, a front-end software engineer who works for software company EnergySavvy on the 19th floor of Smith Tower, has created a Twitter bot that posts a time-lapse video of the sunset every evening. 

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