…and all that is old has been made new again. Back to data structures and improv classes, back to the winter quarter gray, python once more my daily driver, new old favorite albums that haven’t seen the light of day since high school, and the excited anxiousness of a new job on the horizon… I can’t wait for this quarter to start, and somehow I already can’t wait for it to be over. I’ll just be over here coding and rocking out to the classics that feed my soul – like I always do. :)
database migrations.
in which my CPU fan explores its aspirations to become a jet engine.
y gulp.
y u do this.
y u mek me hev a sad.
BRB dying.
AKA stalk your friends on Tumblr.
Something about my implementation on the master branch (in node.js) broke intermittently, so I tore the whole thing down and rewrote it in Python (are you noticing a theme this break?).
I’ve got an in-CLI version that just dumps URLS on the python branch, or a downloader version (which has the README for both python versions) on the python-download branch.
Nothing too huge, but good for yanking down the content of every post that is NOT a reblog/is original content.
I couldn’t sleep tonight, so I built a little toy that interfaces with Facebook’s TTS system for generating speech. The interface connects to both the standard pronunciation system, and the ‘echo’ system, which uses a custom implementation of IPA to generate speech from precoded phonemes. I’ve written more about both types, as well as included download links for generated audio, at the CodePen I wrote. Check it out, if you feel so inclined.
I troubleshoot a lot of systems that are designed to send emails, usually expecting a SMTP server to send from. However, I dislike using my personal email credentials (usually the only ones I have on hand) and setting up a local mail server or a mail server snippet isn’t always practical – so I wrote Mockbox.io.
Mockbox is free, ephemeral, and simple SMTP server simulation – it’s essentially a free, open source alternative to MailTrap.
FALL QUARTER IS DONE. Man, that feels good.
I’ve been pretty busy with school stuff but still put off homework find enough time to work on some personal projects. Recently, I’ve been putting most of my work into the SupTracked UI and API, a system for tracking and analyzing my nootropic consumptions. The API is all nice and tidily documented, and I’m nearly done with v1.0 of the UI, which is prototyped with jQuery (I know, I know…) before I lock down the design I want and move over to React or Angular.
I got inspired by a reddit post, and wrote a philosophical counterpart: whyami. Now you can get the meaning of life according to various philosophies, right on your command line.
I’ve just gotten all my identities loaded into Keybase, a fantastic identity clearinghouse. Check it out for my PGP key, GitHub verification (and by extension, my SSH keys at https://github.com/jkingsman.keys), and more.
