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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...
I just released my most recent tweak, Mercury, which you can check out on my Cydia repo or just look at the source on GitHub. It's an iOS version of Message Indicator for macOS that I released back in May. I've been sitting on it for...
When I got to college a friend introduced me to a drinking game called "Ride the Bus." The rules for the full game are here, but I was interested in the final section. For that section, there are four questions. For the first card, is it...
Google Groups are one of the products that has languished in 2014 in terms of its feature set and visual design. This means that many useful abilities like mass-deleting topics and exporting Google Groups aren't implemented. For...
As many of my posts on this blog reference, my phone is jailbroken. Activator, a popular tweak allows you to link activating events (such as unlocking your phone, entering a wifi network, or pressing a sequence of buttons) to various...
I realize that this blog isn't the standard one, where someone would write about how they were feeling, or reblog pictures of cute dogs (that's what I have Instagram for!). So despite the fact that this post is nearly entirely data...
Previously, the images weren't ideal on the blog. While they were typically large enough if viewing it on a desktop computer, it didn't work great on phones, because you couldn't expand the images in any way. For Dog-a-Day, in viewing...
I was getting a lot of spam messages on this blog, so I decided it was long overdue to add a captcha to the form submission. Which means a fun dive into the completely undocumented world of Anchor CMS!
I tried to deeplink into the Venmo app, but couldn't find a lot of public documentation on it. So I cracked the main app, and found all of the deeplinking strings, which are listed below:
Just a small thing that I found out about today and wanted to write down somewhere. Using Terminal, you can create blank spacers for the macOS dock. Simply run defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add...