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I think Claude may have just saved me 200 hours of debugging and banging my head against the keyboard. First off, some context. When I was in college in 2015 I worked for the school’s IT department where I was tasked with deploying a Shibboleth SSO server for the whole university. I suspect the administration just wanted to get me off their backs because when I was given the assignment my…
Introduction www.digitalcarrot.app I wanted to get in shape before my honeymoon back in 2025 so that I would look good in pictures and be able to handle all of the walking my wife and I were planning. I created a Python script that read how many steps I took each day from my Garmin watch and then blocked youtube until I hit 10,000 steps. This was wildly successful, helping me lose 20lb as well as…
One of my on again off again obsessions is Magic the Gathering. My friends and I play a lot of commander which always requires lots of fiddly counters and a random assortment of tokens. I got sick of using miscellaneous bits of paper to represent tokens so I designed these dry erase tokens. The front of the token can be used to represent tokens, with a space for indicating the color, type, power…
I have been developing Digital Carrot with Go Mobile for the last year and it has been a largely positive experience. This article is meant to serve as a repository of everything I’ve learned throughout the process. Why did I choose Go Mobile? The short answer is that I really like Go and wanted to use it. The longer answer is that is some combination of the following: Digital Carrot is a…