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I find that I commonly open chats in Messages on my computer to make the 'unread' indicator go away. However, if there's any delay in answering them back, it's quite common that I'll simply forget to respond to the text for a while. I've...
I was talking to a friend from college about automatically generating flavortext and death messages for a game, to keep it unique. We were talking through markov chains (here's a great resource to read up on them), and he mentioned the...
The Wall Street Journal has a bunch of super insightful articles. However, nearly all of the articles are behind a paywall. You used to be able to just google the URL, and click the top link but that’s since stopped working. This worked...
A few days ago, I stumbled upon some Firewatch wallpapers for the different times of day, and wanted to have the wallpaper on my mac automatically switch through them. However, all of the solutions I found for this were overly complex,...
OnceMore is another Cydia tweak that I developed, and probably the one that I use and benefit from the most. It's incredibly simple: it just adds a 'Restart' button when a timer goes off. While this is a pretty minor quality of life...
Every so often I go through the [Request] posts on /r/jailbreak over on Reddit to see if there are any that either are interesting, or could be easily done as a minor quality of life tweak. 'AlphabetSources' falls under the second one....
I have a love/hate relationship with Dartmouth. While I love the school, most of the tech infrastructure is horribly outdated, and mainly serves as something to be worked around, rather than a useful tool. Finding classes is just like...
In September, me and a few friends entered HackDartmouth III, a Dartmouth-based hackathon. I'd signed up for the one the year before, but me and my roommate slept through it, so this was the first one that I'd be doing at Dartmouth (I...
I keep forgetting how to do this, so I thought that I would just write it down somewhere. First, you'll need the classdump-dyld tweak package, which you can get from Cydia on the BigBoss repo (it's by Elias Limneos, who hosts the only...
I got it into my head that I wanted to be able to programmatically make my phone speak whatever I wanted it to. Effectively Siri, but unprompted, and without care for silent, or low volume. On a normal phone, this would be impossible....
For Christmas, in addition to the WeMo switch I also got the Amazon Echo Dot. It's a great device, but it was a little bit complicated to work into my AI setup. Ideally, I would change it's wake word to 'Victor', and be able to add in...
For Christmas, one of the gifts that I got was a Belkin WeMo Switch. It was only $30 on sale, and while it had middling reviews (like many of the WiFi-switches), it could be controlled through cURL commands, which made it very easy to...
But of course, that isn't the end. Not even close. In the beginning of fall term of junior year, my computer was once again right next to the TV, and my levels of laziness had reached an all time high. I once again started to think of...
I started this blog when I first got to Dartmouth. I'm now over a term into my junior year, and I still haven't mentioned one of my largest ongoing projects, and by far the one that I get the most enjoyment out of: Victor. It was around...
When you're requesting pages (such as transcripts, DASH, etc.) through Dartmouth Banner, you slowly accumulate cookies. But only one of them is actually used to verify who you are: the SESSID one. It's a base64 encoding of what appears...