Scraping Birthdays from Facebook
I used some hacky JavaScript to scrape my friends birthdays from Facebook so that I can put them in my actual calendar.
Category: Techie
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Weekend Project: Simple notes app
I can't use any of my favourite note-taking apps at work. But I can use a web browser and I can write JavaScript. The logical conclusion is, of course, that I should build my own!
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I made a(nother) static site generator
This time it's a static-file-driven, mobile-app-like blog. And the tooling I made should be usable on any simple WordPress blog! But... WHY???
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I’m using AI
This AI tech is amazing. And works so well when aiding humans rather than replacing them. But gosh I can see how it breaks the web.
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FREE WEBSITES!! How I make small, side-project websites for free (pretty much)
I now have a process that gets me small, fast, side-project websites for virtually zero cost. Let's see how it works...
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What is intelligence anyway?
This episode of This American Life is amazing. It has several parts and looks at artificial intelligence from a number of different creative angles. There’s fascinating stories of how people become convinced of the “intelligence” of ChatGPT. There’s a short story that reverses the roles and tries to see how intelligent machines might question the […]
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I’m tired of web dev
The web used to be fun and simple and easy to get stuff done with. Now it's discovering that someone who doesn't know what they were doing used a div instead of a button and fixing it involves half a day of frustratedly poking around files that make no sense and fixing a broken build process.
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Turbo Admin and the WordPress Command Centre
The experimental "command center" is coming to WordPress core. What do I think of it? And what does it mean for my own "command palette" product, Turbo Admin?
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Oh gosh. I’m actually writing a post about AI.
WOW! I made a properly "magic method" WordPress plugin that allows you to just write a function name, and have that function created for you by an AI. It just works! (Some of the time).
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The New Turbo Admin
Turbo Admin 1.12.0 is a big release with better search, improved reliability, user and plugins search and integrations for WooCommerce and Gravity Forms. Phew!