/etc: curiosities, ephemera
Coding & Projects
In addition to my code on GitHub, find additional snippets (code & otherwise) on Gist.
- LAKE.app plays relaxing Lake Michigan waves for you, forever. (Here’s the blog post about it.)
- Lofi Cafe.app is a dedicated browser for lofi.cafe and a few other lofi/focus music streams.
- I made an Aircraft Radar Skill for Amazon Alexa, mostly so I could stop pulling out my phone every time I heard a plane fly over.
- A
git-open fork that works better with BitBucket. - A variety of InfluxDB data loggers for Raspberry Pi-connected sensors (which still need documentation):
nut_influx_connector for power usage data from NUT, pi-am2301a-influx-logger for the AM2301A temperature/humidity sensor, pi-bme280-influx-logger for the BME280 temperature/humidity/pressure sensor. energybridge_to_influxdb logs realtime power usage to InfluxDB from a local Energy Bridge device.ecobee_influx_connector logs your home’s temperature/humidity readings and HVAC equipment runtime to InfluxDB.runner is useful for cron jobs: it runs a program and logs its output, but only echoes the program’s standard output/error if it fails.- To help myself cut down on Facebook time, I wrote
hosts-timer, a simple tool to block a site on your computer, but allow access for short periods of time when needed. unshorten is a simple, reasonably verbose URL unshortener.- Feedbin Auto Archiver helps avoid stress by marking older items in your Feedbin account as read.
- Instapaper Auto Archiver is the same concept, for Instapaper.
listening.py is a cross-platform (macOS/Linux) wrapper for lsof/netstat that I wrote so I only have to remember one CLI cyntax to check for listening processes.msync is like rsync, but only for music files, and it can transcode high-bitrate files to lower bitrates while syncing.- Instapaper Reader is a simple standalone Instapaper reading app.
- Nativefier app project template for quickly building standalone single-site browsers.
- A simple app for editing Swagger API definitions.
- Fatal Error was a podcast about software development, with a focus on software architecture and design patterns. I co-hosted it with my friend Soroush Khanlou.
- The little-known
git google subcommand. - A lightweight bash script for service health checking, complete with SMS + email alerts, rate limiting and logging
- I wrote a DDNS server & client for people who host DNS at DigitalOcean.
- RSS/JSON feed generator for the City of Ann Arbor’s FOIA log.
- iCal feed generator for forecasts from weather.gov.
- gmail-cleaner is a small tool which cleans up old messages from certain labels in a Gmail account.
- A kiosk-style network status display, written for Workantile.
- Timebot automagically translates times people post in Slack into the correct timezone for everyone in the channel.
- A Raspberry Pi-based garage door remote control.
- Bookmarklet to reenable pinch-to-zoom on obnoxious sites that disable it, like The New Yorker.
- Swift’s type system distinguishes between optional and non-optional
Voids. (Or at least it did in 2015.) - dotfiles, of course.
- Here’s a quick script for watching the FCC’s licensing database for new radio licenses.
Curiosities
ADS-B Aircraft Tracking
Other Places
Other places I’ve posted stuff over the years:
