A few years ago I wrote my wife an on-line webapp to calculate the amount of yarn you would need for a weaving (she being an avid weaver). The webapp seemed popular at the time, but probably in need of an update. This time around I decided to work on
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Apps, OS especially the amazing Linux.
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Weather Light or Dark
Finally getting back to fixing some of the niggling issues in these apps I have created. OpenWeather data uses metres/second for wind speed, which is all good, but to the average person doesn’t mean a whole heck of a lot (m/s times 3.6 equals kmh). So just had to fix
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Wireshark Filter Builder
So today we were running a bunch of network tests. If you are just monitoring the tests over Teams or Zoom or whatever it can be a bit boring watching a tcpdump ‘mature’ into a pcap file or downloading a set of logs. At least it can be for me.
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PYng Finally
Sometimes the simplest parts of an app are the real headscratchers! I had PYng all ready to go with simple fill in the blank boxes for the date and start / end times when I decided to use a popup calendar and time dropdowns. Now you think that would be
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CapPYccino
If there are two things you might have guessed about me IRL they would be that I have a rather strong admiration for coffee (French roast, black with sugar please) and a love of ‘lists’. While I was working on PyCommando I realized if I made it more generic the
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Writer’s Pack
I realized that of the mini-apps I have created the ones I use most with writing projects are PyWrite (naturally!) and PUrl for collecting reference URLs, as well as a small utility that I wrote a while back to convert the Manuscript folder into a single EPUB I could edit