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  Personal Weather Forecast

  tl;dr Personal Weather Forecast is a small JavaScript program that mashes together Dark Sky’s API with Twilio’s APIs to produce a personally tailored weather forecast and sends it to you as a text message every morning. The source code is available as a project on GitHub, here.

  2018-12-29

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  Trump is Big Boss

  tl;dr Trump Is Big Boss is a silly little program that randomly generates fake tweet screenshots that attribute quotes from Metal Gear’s Big Boss to @realDonaldTrump.

  2017-07-18

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  Fork Your Own Repo on GitHub

  A common time-saving ‘hack’ of mine when building ‘new-but-related-to-old’ projects is to fork an existing code base and use it as the boot-strap for the new project. GitHub, however, does not provide the functionality on their website to fork your own project; you can only fork other people’s projects. Here’s how to work around that.

  2017-07-04

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  Jeremy Kylebot

  tl;dr Jeremy Kylebot is a silly little program that randomly generates title cards in the style of The Jeremy Kyle Show and posts them to Twitter.

  2017-06-27

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  Intruder Alert

  For a quick lunch-time electronics project, I’ve constructed an intruder alarm that can alert you any time somebody comes too close to your desk or cubicle.

  2013-05-09