Tag: programming

Posts tagged programming

Extending Comments on the Blog

Something came over me this week and I decided to extend my little commenting system to allow for threaded replies. Backend I detailed adding comme... Read more

Open for Comments

Well, I did a thing. I built a little service to add comments back into my blog. This was a little bit of a project because I had to build a backen... Read more

Not Everything Needs to be a Service

I often fall into the trap of thinking, "Maybe I should publish this thing for other people to use." And I almost always regret it. I'm a full-time... 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

New PD Site: Presenters

sWe’ve had a look at how users work in the new PD site, so let’s take a look at another major player: presenters. The word “presenter” is really lo... 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

A Photo API in Python

I started a small project to clean up my personal photo hosting. I'm currently using an app written in PHP, but it's way over my head and does way ... 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

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

Making RSS Feeds for Instagram

tl;dr: I have a hacky proof-of-concept method for getting an Instagram account as an RSS feed. It uses Python and you can grab the source files her... Read more

I Took a Deep Breath and Contributed to an Open Source Project

I've been playing around with building websites and self-teaching myself (is that redundant?) web development languages. I feel like I've crossed s... Read more

Forget the Mac Mini, Bring on the Raspberry

This weekend I decided to try and tackle [turning a Mac Mini into a server to host my own photos](https://blog.ohheybrian.com/2018/11/reviving-the-... Read more

Dynamic Data Validation with Apps Script

My coworker, Kat, needed to set up meetings with our 13 elementary schools. Appointment slots would have been a lot of clicking back and forth on c... Read more

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