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Posts tagged python

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

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

Moving from beach to nh3

I happened to see a post about bleach, a text input santization library, deprecated in January. I have a couple of apps which use this library to s... 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

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

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

Managing Standards Based Grades in Canvas LMS

I'm trying to make standards-based grading more approachable for my teachers. When I was teaching full time, I held to Frank Noschese's Keep It Sim... 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

Killing Pico (and Micro)

Earlier this year, I wrote up a really bare-bones blogging system I called [Pico](https://blog.ohheybrian.com/2018/04/pico-a-tiny-blog/). It's a Py... Read more

Pico: A Tiny Blog

More of my life is run in plain text. I don’t really use word processors any more (other than Google Docs for work) because they’re heavy and not r... Read more

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