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A New Otherblog

I had an itch to scratch, so I rebuilt my homepage and built in a new microblogging platform that I'm lovingly referring to as my "otherblog." The ... Read more

Adding Full Width Images to the Blog

This month, I added a new post template for longer writing that has more images included. I wanted a way to add full-width images for accents and m... Read more

Improvements to OutcomeMaps This Year

My hobby project is a self-hosted grading/feedback platform for students to track progress on learning standards. I call it OutcomeMaps, mainly bec... Read more

Adding ShareOpenly to Posts

I had a small coding itch today after giving the PSAT, so I decided to finally add back in an easy way to share posts from the blog. ShareOpenly is... Read more

Oh Hey, It's Archives!

The point of a blog is to catalog writing. I've switched platforms a couple of times and I decided it was time to get archives front and center aga... Read more

Switching to System Fonts

Tonight, on a whim, I decided to switch my CSS fonts to the system font stack instead of importing a style from Google Fonts. I also bumped the lin... Read more

I'm Publishing with Git!

One of my goals this month was to make my publishing more flexible. I'm finally publising with a git hook, rebuilding this site on the server (8 se... Read more

Smarter Templating with HTMX and Flask

I've been using HTMX for a couple years now and I'm still loving the patterns and interaciton it allows without relying on writing Javascript for e... Read more

Quick Text Analysis with Google Apps Script

We needed to do a survey at work that included some open ended questions. We don't have access to a survey platform like Qualtrics, so we have to u... Read more

More Flexible Test Databases in Flask

I've been longing for an easier way to manage test data in Flask. Specifically, when running automated tests, I wanted an easier way to populate a ... Read more

Adventures in Building an Interactive Apps Script Sidebar

Now that I've finished a rewrite of an application in HTMX, I wanted to see if HTMX could be used to enhance the use of Google Apps Script sidebar ... Read more

Moving from Svelte to HTMX

Last year, I built an event registration tool for our district, mainly to keep track of what professional development we were doing and try to get ... Read more

Check for alt tags with a Bookmarklet

tl;dr If you want a quick way to check if images on a webpage contain alt text (for screen readers), I made a bookmarklet that will blur images wit... Read more

Using Google Apps Script as a Webhook

Google Apps Script projects can be published as web apps when you’re done with them. This is helpful if you’re building a tool with a simple UI (us... Read more

Handling Paginated API Responses in Google Apps Script

One of my favorite things about Google Apps Script is that I can get information from an API and write it directly to a shared document or spreadsh... Read more

Add a Google Meet to Calendar Events with Google Apps Script

My small team relies on automation to make things run. Part of our PD process is a Google Form workflow that kicks off calendar events, document cr... Read more

Get a List of All Students and Missing Work from Canvas

In a Canvas course, you can quickly check the number of missing assignments for single students relatively quickly. You can also message groups of ... Read more

Copy Canvas Enrollments to Another Course

While schools are closed, we've moved much of our long term staff development material into Canvas. We have one long-running course with all staff ... Read more

Updating Canvas Notification Preferences

This is a technical post. Read on for code and commentary. In moving to online, we've tried to streamline all of our communication through Canvas. ... Read more

Unit Testing in GAS Part 5: Testing Objects and Arrays

If you're brand new to unit testing, start with the first post in this series to get caught up. Part 1: QUnit Setup Part 2: Simple Tests Part 3: Ad... Read more

Mutify - A Simple Ad Blocker

We've started using Spotify more around the house with the kids. We only have the free account, which means we hear ads every three or four songs. ... Read more

Unit Testing in GAS Part 4: Error Handling

If you're brand new to unit testing, start with the first post in this series to get caught up. Part 1: QUnit Setup Part 2: Simple Tests Part 3: Ad... Read more

Unit Testing GAS Part 3: Adding and Testing Functions

If you're brand new to unit testing, start with the first post in this series to get caught up. Part 1: QUnit Setup Part 2: Simple Tests Part 3: Ad... Read more

Unit Testing GAS Part 2: Simple Tests

If you're brand new to unit testing, start with the first post in this series to get caught up. Part 1: QUnit Setup Part 2: Simple Tests Part 3: Ad... Read more

Unit Testing GAS Part 1: QUnit Setup

I'm not good at writing testable code. I'm more of a 'figure it out when it breaks' kind of hobby programmer. The problem with this is that I am co... Read more

Auto-select form checkbox with querystrings

I maintain a website at school where teachers can register for professional development. They can see all offerings and save sessions to their prof... Read more

Change Document Ownership with Apps Script

My Google account is managing a lot of document creation at school. I set up a lot of autoCrat projects to create docs alongside several utility sc... Read more

Automating Things Worth Reading

The more I use Tiny Tiny RSS (TTRSS) for keeping up with blogs, the more I find it can do. For instance, I can publish specific feeds of curated it... Read more

Spit and Tape to Get Some Data

We're using Canvas LMS in our district. There are some things I appreciate and things I appreciate...less. One of which is when a main feature does... Read more

Creating a New User Onboard in WordPress

I'm finishing up a website for a private project which allows for people to register and create posts as members. The client wanted to have a speci... Read more

Change Course Role in Canvas via the API

Continuing my Canvas excursions... We recently made a change where teachers could not manually add students to their courses. The change was made b... Read more

Lightning Fast Spotify Playlists

Update After posting this and tagging WDBM on Twitter, they sent the following: Hey Brian! We upload our playlists on Impact89fm’s Spotify every we... Read more

Adding Assignment Statuses to the Canvas SpeedGrader

Here's another little script I hammered out for Canvas today. With the new gradebook, you can set assignment statuses like "late" and "missing." Th... Read more

Copy Notes Between Google Sheets

If you work in big systems, sometimes you come across a situation where you want to share a single tab of a Google Sheet with someone else rather t... Read more

Event Manager Web App

Adding to the list of things to blog so I don’t forget about them in the future, I built an event manager web app for prom. Sales Writing data to/f... Read more

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