Jul 17, 2022
This project exists to serve a very niche problem. In my classroom, students coming from across my rather large school have trouble making it to my room before passing period ends. Therefore, I give them an extra 45 seconds after the bell rings before I count them tardy. I also don’t allow students to pack up prior to three minutes before the end of the period. So, I wanted a script that would sound an alarm bell 45 seconds after the beginning of each period and 3 minutes prior to the end of the period.
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Jun 14, 2022
A simple custom link shortening app. It’s a bit like a personal bit.ly. I wrote it in php and MySQL.
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Jun 09, 2021
I use Plain-Text Accounting and the command line tools Ledger and HLedger in order to track family finances. I have written these scripts to help me import data from monthly bank statements into my ledger file and visualize our finances.
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Dec 04, 2020
This pair of GeoGebra animations is designed to show that there are two ingredients to circular motion: centripetal force and forward motion. If one or the other ingredient is missing, the motion will diverge from circular.
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Oct 12, 2020
This website is generated using the Hugo Static Site Generator and a custom-coded theme. Both the site’s theme and its content can be viewed on GitHub.
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Jul 28, 2019
When my first daughter was born, we were asked by the doctor to track her feedings and her wet and dirty diapers. While there are apps that do this, they are all too complicated! So I did the only logical thing: coded my own simpler app from scratch!
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Dec 26, 2018
I’ve always wanted to find something useful to do with the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi. Haven’t found anything useful to do yet, but I have played around with a few non-useful things!
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Apr 20, 2017
During the 2017 INAAPT Spring Meeting, I listened to a talk about GlowScript as a way to create VPython animations online. I created the following projects just to learn the programming language and illustrate a couple physics concepts.
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