New Chrome plugin! I took a break during studying for midterms and decided to try and hammer out a Chrome plugin that would take me less than 20 minutes. I got down the first draft of Show MyMathLab Score in about 15, and spent about 2 hours slamming my head against a proverbial brick wall […]

I had a bit of a lazy morning in bed today, so in response to the surprisingly numerous emails I’ve gotten expressing thanks (or a desire for instructions of use) for the Twilio SMS and media deletion tool I wrote, I decided to tweak things a bit and make it a bit more usable. Previously, […]

I’ve been alternately happy and very unhappy with my service from Twilio, a well known company that provides easy SMS and voice capability to applications via its API. You can see a script I wrote to handle a similar but different issue from this post here. When you send SMS to the service, it delivers […]

I’m trying to get more and more comfortable with node.js, and I’m finding it really handy to put together quick command line apps I might otherwise be putting way too much cruft into if I would have used PHP. Today’s utility was one I’ve been meaning to write for a while – it uses the […]

node.js (sic) is a really cool runtime environment that allows for asynchronous, event driven coding. It uses JavaScript and runs on Google’s open source V8 JS engine. I love the chat service ChatStep, but they advertise privacy and encryption without being willing to put their money where there mouth is and open source the system for […]