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My brother is an artist (check out his stuff at https://www.instagram.com/beals.art/ or at https://spencerbeals.com). He had created some art pieces that he wanted to talk about in depth, by panning over the image. Unfortunately while...
I was up on campus again for my 5 year reunion, and it felt wrong to not be doing something slightly sketch around the Dartmouth ID, just for old time's sake. Luckily, I'd recently acquired a Flipper Zero for some exploration around the...
My family's dog of 10 years, Neko, unfortunately passed away a couple of months ago. My parents decided that now was a good time to start looking for another beautiful dog to bring into their life, but were having some trouble finding a...
For years, Spotify had a way to import playlists from iTunes into Spotify. Now, there are a variety of websites that claim to do it, but either can't accept large .xml files, or crash constantly. So I decided to write up my own. It just...
I recently was in the market for a watch. I wanted a smartwatch, but I wanted something that looked more like a normal watch, as opposed to a slab of silicon and a screen mounted on my wrist. I still wanted sleep tracking, athletic...
For one of my final CS classes, I was brainstorming a list of tech that I hadn't developed anything for or worked with, and screensavers on Mac were on the list as something that would probably lend itself to an easy short-term project....
A few weeks ago, I was considering entering the Dartmouth hackathon, but decided not to because I woke up too late to give someone else a chance to win. However, when browsing around the Devpost site, I found a project called ezTouch. It...
Grayscale Lock is a Cydia tweak that allows you to set grayscale status on an app-by-app basis. This is mainly to curb phone addiction, while making it harder to turn off than just manually turning it on. It also allows the grayscale to...
About 3 months ago I watched this video by Numberphile on the "Trinity Hall Prime". You can watch the video but here's a quick summary. As a graduation gift, a mathematician from Trinity Hall produced the following 1350-digit prime...
A while ago I made GroupMe Analysis, which is a bot that you can add to your group, and then see interesting facts about it, including number of comments, likes, and a person-by-person breakdown. However, I couldn't find any tool to...
I have had a task since February of 2017 in Asana to see if I could figure out how to rename desktops. Desktops are what appear when you press "F3" at the top, which have the default names "Desktop 1", "Desktop 2", etc. I knew it was...
I've played a fair amount of Settlers of Catan in my day, and I find that a lot of the skill in the game comes from the initial placements. Almost two years ago, I built a rough setup that randomized tiles and numbers. My plan was to...
For some reason, my version of Anchor completely bugs out when you start increasing the size of the text input beyond a certain point. This was making it really hard to write longer articles, so I tracked down the fix.
Back about a year ago, I made a blog post about DartDine, my final project for my Human-Computer Interaction class. It was an idea to remake the Dartmouth nutrition website which at the time (and I think still does) have an absolutely...
I was working on a project in extracting typing from hand movement in 3D space, and needed an API for generating sentences. I found a few ones online, but most of them weren't high enough quality sentences, or weren't free. So I decided...