Posts about 'stuff-i-made'
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Building a Cookbook in Python, for Reasons (Part 2)
In my last post, I talked about building a cookbook/recipe blog that stores recipes emailed to a special address. I talked about setting up the backend, the service that provides an ‘email received’ webhook, and the library that parses recipe information from a website using the Schema.org standardized schema. Where...
Building a Cookbook With Python, for Reasons (part 1)
📖 + 🐍 = ? *Note: This is a longer writeup of the project I presented at PyLadies 2025. If you want the bite-size version, watch it here. I’m part of a monthly potluck that organizes meetups over email, then meets in person to eat delicious vegan food. (I’m not...
Building a Queens clone in React
I have nearly a 50-day streak on Queens, a daily game from the worst social network. The fact that LinkedIn has managed to trick me into visiting daily is not lost on me, but man, it’s a fun game. I decided that one Queens per day is not enough, and...
Fruit Tracker, my first Fitbit app, is live
My first Fitbit app is live in the Fitbit app store. You can read about what it does here. Below are some things I learned while making it. The fitbit onboard computer is very stupid. This is probably why Fitbits have such good battery life. You can do very basic...
Game Off Results
2048 Invaders got 190th out of over 600 entries in the Github Game Off. This is far better than I expected for a silly Javascript game, my first game ever. I’m thrilled :)