Tag: Code
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Automating Little League Boundary Verification
Every registration season, Little League board members face the same tedious task: verifying that each player’s address falls within the league’s official boundaries. With over a thousand registrations, manually checking each address against the Little League Finder becomes a time sink that takes volunteers away from what matters—getting kids on the field. The Problem The…
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Building a Credits Generator for My Daughter’s School Play
When my daughter’s school was putting on a production of Romeo and Juliet, I wanted to create scrolling credits for the livestream. What started as a simple HTML file turned into a full-featured web app that anyone can use. The Problem I needed a way to display professional-looking credits during the stream – cast, crew,…
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Introducing Sports Pie: Visualize Your Sports Fandom
I’m excited to share a fun weekend project I built: Sports Pie, a web app that lets you create interactive pie charts to visualize your sports fandom breakdown. The Inspiration The idea came from a TikTok video by @__sportsball that Aaron Jorbin shared with our friend group. The concept was simple but compelling: breaking down your sports interests…
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Building the Movie & Actor Matcher I Always Wanted
For years, I’ve had those moments watching a movie where I’d think “wait, didn’t these two actors work together in something else?” or “I wonder what movies both Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks appeared in together.” Sure, you could dig through IMDb for each actor individually, but there was never a simple tool to just……
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Introducing Tab Cleaner – Automatic Tab Management for Chrome
I’m excited to announce the launch of Tab Cleaner, a Chrome extension that automatically closes inactive tabs to keep your browser fast, organized, and clutter-free. The Problem with Too Many Tabs We’ve all been there – you start your day with a few browser tabs, and by afternoon you have 50+ tabs open across multiple…
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How to Solve a Physics Problem
This basically sums up college for me. Change poet to film maker, and then film maker to (code) poet. 🙂 via SMBC
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PHP FizzBuzz Test
Read again about the FizzBuzz test on Joey Devilla’s Global Nerdy blog today and got thinking about the solution. By no stretch of the imagination do I consider my self an amazing programmer, but I thought I should figure out an easy way to do this, should the occasion permit itself to do the test someday. The basic requirement follows:…
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Designers vs Coding
Good design and good markup provide structure to content. Good markup is a fundamental part of good design: beautiful on the inside, beautiful on the outside. HTML and CSS give another venue to provide structure to content in the native language of the web, and learning these guides decisions by surfacing the affordances of the…
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April WordPress Meetup
Wanted to invite everyone back down to my house for another WordPress Meetup this week. We had a great turnout last time, and though my basement might be busting at the seams, we will do it there again. Details: When: Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 7:00 pm – wheneverWhere: My house, 549 W. Goldenrod Way Saratoga…