Programming

Introducing an Indigo plugin that creates virtual weather stations from Environment Canada data for use in home automation rules.

Introducing AnkiStats and AnkiStatsServer, companion projects for extracting Anki performance data for further analysis.

Using pmset and scheduled cron jobs to wake a Mac for AppleScripts that depend on the user interface.

Using AppleScript and System Events to select and synchronize an Anki profile as an alternative to an Automator recording.

An Automator and LaunchControl workflow for scheduling Anki synchronization on OS X, with the limitations of recorded UI actions.

A legacy Hexo filter that replaces specially marked text with styled spans, developed to distinguish Cyrillic passages.

Using the AWS CLI, Python, and Grunt to apply different caching policies to images and HTML in an S3-hosted blog.

A brief introduction to an Anki command-line utility for searching, moving, and renaming database content.

Using JavaScript in Anki card templates to hide formatting when example sentences are absent, with a note on built-in conditional replacement.

Using a Python Markov-chain text generator to recombine Donald Trump’s speeches into satirical variations.