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Vowels to Oob

2021-03-10T12:00:00Z

AlTeRnAtInG CaPs gEnErAtOr

2021-03-05T12:00:00Z

Hamilton COVID-19 Outbreaks

2021-01-30T12:00:00Z

I created a Hamilton COVID-19 Outbreaks page to track active outbreaks and plot them on a map. Updated daily.

Ontario COVID-19 Data

2021-01-30T12:00:00Z

The COVID-19 page tracks daily test results from Ontario Public Health since the start of the pandemic, with various charts and related data tables. The information is also available in various open data formats.

PyHtmlEdit

2020-05-27T12:00:00Z

You can download pyhtmledit from its Github repository.

PyHtmlEdit screenshot

Current Version: 3.1 (released 2020-05-27)

Note: PyHtmlEdit has been completely updated as of Version 3. It now runs on Python 3.x, not Python 2.x, as the latter is obsolete and is no longer being supported.

PyHtmlEdit 3 also runs using the Tkinter GUI library, which is built into Python installations, instead of the wxPython library, which turned out to be more hassle than it was worth.

You also need to have the python-markdown2 and html2text libraries installed.

The features include:

Convert between Markdown and HTML.
Search, Replace Next and Replace All.
Undo and Redo.
A Clean function that removes MS Word special characters.
HTML element formatting, including converting a tab-delimited list to an html table.
Lowercase, Proper Case and Uppercase functions.

This software is released under the GNU General Public Licence, Version 2.

Some Handy Running Calculations

2019-11-08T12:00:00Z

I've recently signed up with Strava after almost a decade using Runkeeper, and I've also recently resumed a regular weekly running program after a very sketchy few months of barely getting any runs in. I decided that with Around the Bay 2020 just five months away, it would be a good idea to start tracking my runs in terms of an ATB training program, naming each run in terms of which week of training it falls in, and which consecutive run it is during that week. So the first run of the first week would be 1-1, and the third run of the second week would be 2-3, and so on.

Strava gives you some pretty good information in its running analysis, but I'm also interested in increasing my cadence toward 180 steps per minute, since this seems to be the most fruitful opportunity to increase my cruising speed. Strava does not calculate steps (one point for Runkeeper), but my Fitbit does, and I can use that value in combination with distance and time to calculate cadence and stride length.

This is a bit tedious to do manually, so I have created a form where you input your steps, distance and time (in hours, minutes and seconds) and it calculates the rest for you.

Tracking Movement

2015-06-14T12:00:00Z

I've been tracking my daily/weekly running and stepcounts. You can see the results here:

Recipes

2015-04-17T12:00:00Z

I've got a new section on the site for recipes I often use. You can find it here:

Recipes

Solitaire

2013-05-08T12:00:00Z

This is a version of solitaire I hacked up using HTML, CSS, javascript with jQuery, jQUery-UI draggable, the Noisy jQuery plugin, and only one small image. It's pretty nasty, but I wanted to get a feel for the draggable jquery-UI functionality.

Demo: http://quandyfactory.com/static/solitaire/solitaire.html

Source: https://github.com/quandyfactory/Solitaire

Update: You can play this game live, courtesy of PythonAnywhere:

https://www.pythonanywhere.com/gists/459573/rps.py/ipython2/

Site-Specific Google Search for Hamilton.ca

2011-09-16T12:00:00Z

The hamilton.ca search engine is awful. Instead, you can do a site-specific google search to find what you're looking for. The following form does this for you:

To do this yourself when searching directly in google, just add the following to your search terms: site:hamilton.ca.

Steps
Distance (km)
Hours
Minutes
Seconds

Calculations
Dist (m)
Time (hours)
Time (mins)
Speed (km/h)
Pace (min/km)
Cadence (steps/min)
Stride Length (m)