https://blog.alexbeals.comWebsites, projects, snippets, and errata from Hanover to San Franciscoen_GB60http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssVox Silvahttps://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/cleaning-up-anchor-spam-commentsCaptcha set up for comments on this blog but stuff can still get through. While Anchor became defunct in 2020 maybe there's someone else out there still using it who would benefit from this (and I know my future self certainly will).]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:21:24 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/datasf-inner-yimbyWed, 18 Mar 2026 07:19:02 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/clearing-space-on-computerMon, 16 Mar 2026 20:23:48 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/resuming-paused-applications-on-macosMon, 09 Mar 2026 06:17:09 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/claude-codes-thinking-animationscrolling short-form videos contemplating next steps, freeing my time up for deeper mental pursuits, and much more importantly (and realistically) getting entranced by the blinking cursors. But how do they work?]]>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:05:54 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/modifying-requests-with-mitmproxySat, 03 Jan 2026 20:42:53 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/inspecting-hover-elements-in-chromeMon, 22 Dec 2025 05:09:13 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/remove-unused-characters-font-sizeMon, 15 Dec 2025 23:59:47 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/custom-yellow-handshake-emojis-with-zero-width-joinersMon, 15 Dec 2025 08:29:00 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/showing-keyboard-strokes-on-macoshow to set your screen time passcode without knowing it). But sometimes you also want to show keyboard presses, and there's no option in the stock screen recording to do this.]]>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 03:29:49 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/touch-id-for-sudoTue, 09 Dec 2025 02:30:58 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/adding-snippets-to-the-blogfootnotes sidenotes I love asides. Likewise there are a lot of small things I come across that either aren't meaty enough for a full post, or trend so narrowly technical that I feel hesitant about broadcasting (a reticence my college self didn't share based on my post setting up my router). I still want them to be searchable as a reference for myself and potentially others, but I want them to take up less presence on the blog (and not be sent out in email blasts). The solution? Snippets!]]>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:46:41 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/removing-your-location-from-mailchimp-emailsSun, 07 Dec 2025 17:52:33 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/downloading-large-photos-from-flickrSun, 07 Dec 2025 08:23:54 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/long-live-dog-a-dayThu, 04 Dec 2025 08:15:50 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/combination-and-permutation-locksSun, 30 Nov 2025 23:48:28 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/extracting-uber-ride-historyMint as my budgeting software until it shut down in March 2024. As a replacement I swapped over to Monarch, which I've loved even more and would recommend if you're looking to do any sort of budget tracking. I wanted a tool to automatically annotate and verify my Uber transactions, so I combined a bunch of private APIs to build Viceroy, a Chrome extension to do just that.]]>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:29:30 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/kubrick-black-and-white-contrastThe Killing the other day, Kubrick's third feature film from 1956. Coming in at just 85 minutes, it’s a lean well-told story of a racetrack heist. But for all of the nonlinear storytelling, and noir aesthetics, and tangled snares of character desires, above all I was just taken with how good it looked.]]>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:30:52 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/downloading-arbitrary-apple-podcast-episode-transcriptswebsite back in January that allows you to view and copy the full thing. It mostly works great, but some users (including those on older versions of macOS) have flagged that their transcript files aren't locally saved, and thus don't show up in the tool. Here's how I came up with a slightly convoluted (read: very) workaround — or if you're impatient check out the Github if you're on macOS 15.5, and the Python script if not.]]>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 05:17:02 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/start-process-extensionsMon, 30 Jun 2025 08:20:45 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/debugging-fitness-sf-qrpreviously created an Apple Wallet pass that would automatically open the code up when you arrived. This stopped scanning at the end of May, and although updating my member ID temporarily fixed it, it broke again two weeks later. This lined up with the update of the app, where v1.3.22 let us know that "this update includes a fix to resolve the error with the QR code when checking in". Let's see if we can figure out what it's doing, and how to replicate the behavior for the Wallet pass.]]>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:48:17 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/make-your-phone-grayscalein my last post, I'm a big fan of my phone being in grayscale, which helps reduce screentime. This is a quick guide on how to set that up using Shortcuts in a way that automatically disables it for certain apps like Photos and Camera.]]>Fri, 23 May 2025 18:20:03 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/reverse-engineering-ios-deeplinking-for-shortcutsreduces screentime and cuts into into how attention-grabbing the bright red app badges are. The problem is that I don't want all apps to be in grayscale: some because they're effectively broken (Photos, Camera) and others because I'm okay spending time on them (Books, Chess, Crosswords). I used to selectively do this with a Cydia tweak I wrote but nowadays I do it with Shortcuts. A friend asked me how to set it up on their phone, but while the actual shortcut bit is trivial, creating the automation to run it requires tapping a row for every app on your phone. So before I encouraged them to do just that (you should do just that) I wanted to see if Shortcuts had a better way to import or programmatically create automations—through deeplinking.]]>Fri, 23 May 2025 18:18:27 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/extracting-letterboxd-tokens-with-mitmproxyMon, 14 Apr 2025 23:50:54 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/unsubscribing-from-reddit-community-notificationsSun, 30 Mar 2025 17:41:41 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/americans-reading-habitsSun, 23 Mar 2025 19:46:21 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/letterboxd-gaps2016 Hollywood Reporter roundtable in response to actresses lamenting that they don't work with female directors, saying that "[she's] worked with so many female directors" and that "it's up to us as actresses to give the opportunity to first time directors". While actors have a lot more sway than audiences in getting projects greenlit, I was curious what percentage of the movies I'd seen were directed by women. I googled around, but the website I found wasn't working and this script was non-trivial for breaking down custom lists. So I built my own!]]>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:18:28 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/possessionLetterboxd is explicitly horror focused (claws gripping into a woman’s back, blood trickling down, and bright blue spikes like something out of The Thing poster). I was curious about why they went with this and tried to look up some details on the poster — thus began the rabbit hole. Come along with me on a two day hyperfixation through the history of Possession and its artwork!]]>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:14:52 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/apple-podcast-transcript-viewerrecently added transcripts to their Podcasts app, quickly becoming one of my favorite new features. I wanted to copy a paragraph out of the transcript though, and ran into the 200 word cap on their selection screen. Luckily the MacOS Podcasts app locally caches the transcripts, and so I built a simple web app that allows you to browse the transcripts and easily select parts of them.]]>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:26:39 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/fixing-low-quality-wix-gallery-imageshttps://spencerbeals.com, go buy some art!) which uses Wix. There's a product page view where you can see multiple images of a given piece and click to zoom in, but the gallery images are somehow lower resolution than the non-zoomed version, making for a pretty bad user experience. I couldn't find anyway to change this in the tool (or even any forums with people asking about this) but luckily we can fix it with Javascript.]]>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:14:22 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/harry-potter-anatomy-speedruncurrent 41-second World Record. How do people come up with these? Using Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for the GameBoy Advance, I'm going to do a technical deep dive into the Any% speedrun and how you could discover it starting from scratch.]]>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:37:59 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/gmail-delayed-filteringVox, We're Here, Tom Scott, Money Stuff and Heatmap News among many others) all of which I enjoy...but maybe don't always read. I don't want to unsubscribe because I do read them, but I don't need Dropout.tv's episode announcement from three weeks ago floating around in my inbox. Ideally if I don't get to them they could quietly be purged in the background, but the default Gmail and Apple mail filters don't support delayed filtering. But Google Scripts does!]]>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:39:58 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/jack-sparrows-compassPirates of the Caribbean.]]>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 01:25:15 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/setting-an-unknown-screen-time-codemy post on Grayscale Lock which you can now do on stock iOS with Shortcuts!) but the number one thing I've found to work is using the built-in Screen Time tools. You may have tried this and found yourself just typing in the code to bypass the limit, but here's the twist — I don't know my code.]]>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:38:00 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/custom-apple-wallet-passesFitness SF has a number of great gyms around the Bay Area, but their app can be slow to load, and having to open it every time to scan in was annoying. Apple Wallet passes solve this problem by allowing you to set locations where it will auto-prompt showing a QR code if you're in the radius. The app doesn't let you create an Apple Wallet pass (or even screenshot the QR code), so let's make our own!]]>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:58:41 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/roborock-routines-and-ios-shortcutsSun, 01 Sep 2024 21:15:03 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/books-annotations-appSat, 22 Jun 2024 01:26:38 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/rom-com-bingoSat, 15 Jun 2024 23:44:34 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/crossword-grid-builderFri, 14 Jun 2024 05:00:30 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/pearls-before-swainewrote some code to automatically transcribe 'Pearls Before Swine' comic strips to make them searchable. At the time, this transcription relied on Tesseract, the "state of the art" OSS OCR program. As part of that I used a segmentation algorithm based on linear whitespace to separate the original strip into boxes, and then attempted to do something similar for the bounding boxes of the text. This had a lot of problems, in part because the OCR program was not that good on the handdrawn font, in part because the dialogue boxes were inconsistent (which you can see in the image below), and in part because my code wasn't very good.]]>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:22:00 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/screenshot-folder-in-dockTue, 04 Jun 2024 18:31:48 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/image-motionhttps://www.instagram.com/beals.art/ or at https://spencerbeals.com). He had created some art pieces that he wanted to talk about in depth, by panning over the image. Unfortunately while there are a lot of tools online for a Ken Burns-esque single pan-zoom combination, there wasn't one that that worked with multiple, and not one that smoothed out the camera, or allowed for looping.]]>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 04:41:11 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dartmouth-id-and-flipperFlipper Zero for some exploration around the old Gamebody Link Cables which allowed me to put some of my historical information to the test.]]>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:48:46 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/fiddler-excel-and-good-enoughMon, 12 Oct 2020 04:13:35 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/itunes-to-spotify-playlist-converterSat, 24 Nov 2018 09:57:56 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/making-a-dumb-smartwatch-smarterTue, 02 Oct 2018 05:24:40 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/screenmazerMon, 13 Aug 2018 19:59:53 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/lock-and-unlock-mac-from-iphoneezTouch. It caught my eye, as it allowed you to lock and unlock your computer from anywhere using your iPhone. Unfortunately, there was no GitHub repo, and the url that was linked in the Devpost article was no longer active. So I wondered how easy it would be to do!]]>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 05:57:15 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/grayscale-lock-combating-phone-addictionWed, 14 Mar 2018 05:21:01 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/the-trinity-hall-prime-and-other-pixel-primesthis video by Numberphile on the "Trinity Hall Prime". You can watch the video but here's a quick summary. As a graduation gift, a mathematician from Trinity Hall produced the following 1350-digit prime number, and printed it out to be framed. The top bit is the crest of the school composed out of 1's and 8's, followed by a (nearly) unmodified series of 0's, and finally ends with a single 1.]]>Fri, 05 Jan 2018 01:42:34 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/saving-groupmesGroupMe Analysis, which is a bot that you can add to your group, and then see interesting facts about it, including number of comments, likes, and a person-by-person breakdown. However, I couldn't find any tool to download an entire GroupMe that wasn't just making a CSV file or something boring like that. So I wrote a Python file that will take in an access token from GroupMe and download an entire conversation, attachments and all, for permanent offline viewing.]]>Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:21:15 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/renaming-desktops-on-macMessage Indicator), but my attempts to find the right class to hook into repetitively failed. Luckily, I finally stumbled onto a pretty convoluted method of doing it, and built it in a day or so!]]>Fri, 17 Nov 2017 06:54:15 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/catan-map-generatorI made a post on Reddit.]]>Sun, 05 Nov 2017 17:47:47 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/minor-anchor-tweak-scrollingTue, 17 Oct 2017 21:41:15 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dartmouth-nutrition-apiblog post about DartDine, my final project for my Human-Computer Interaction class. It was an idea to remake the Dartmouth nutrition website which at the time (and I think still does) have an absolutely atrocious mobile interface. As part of it, I wanted to properly connect it to the API behind the site. This is that API.]]>Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:18:21 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/guessing-harry-potterSat, 23 Sep 2017 02:03:07 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/mercury-tweak-and-fun-codeon my Cydia repo or just look at the source on GitHub. It's an iOS version of Message Indicator for macOS that I released back in May. I've been sitting on it for over a year, and finally carved out a weekend to flesh it out a bit for release.]]>Tue, 29 Aug 2017 05:49:25 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/the-mathematics-behind-ride-the-bushere, but I was interested in the final section. For that section, there are four questions. For the first card, is it red or black? For the second card, is it higher or lower than the first card? For the third card, is it in between (inclusive) or outside of the first two cards? And for the fourth card, what suit is it? You continue pulling cards until you get all four in a row right. If you get any one wrong you drink, and start over.]]>Sat, 12 Aug 2017 22:35:35 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/cleaning-out-google-groupsgggd, a fantastic Python command-line script to download full groups that I highly recommend. However, I couldn't find anything to mass delete topics...so I made one.]]>Mon, 07 Aug 2017 06:04:41 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/timercl-a-command-line-tool-for-timers-on-iosSat, 17 Jun 2017 17:29:48 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/life-at-dartmouth-data-analysisInstagram for!). So despite the fact that this post is nearly entirely data driven and still relied on CS, it's slightly out of the norm in that it's a look at how I interact with the Dartmouth campus.]]>Sat, 10 Jun 2017 23:52:13 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/adding-lightbox-support-to-anchorDog-a-Day, in viewing previous images I used a lightbox solution called FancyBox. They recently released their 3rd version which was mobile first, so I figured I'd add it to the blog.]]>Sat, 10 Jun 2017 23:32:07 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/adding-captcha-to-anchorThu, 25 May 2017 17:46:41 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/venmo-deeplinkingWed, 24 May 2017 16:08:43 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dock-spacersFri, 12 May 2017 19:32:42 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/message-indicatorMon, 08 May 2017 14:41:21 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/markov-messageshere's a great resource to read up on them), and he mentioned the possibility of using your iMessage chat database from your phone.]]>Sun, 05 Mar 2017 22:25:39 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/reading-wsj-articlesReferer Control’ extension for Chrome, or similar solutions for other browsers.]]>Thu, 02 Mar 2017 23:45:19 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/automatically-changing-wallpapersome Firewatch wallpapers for the different times of day, and wanted to have the wallpaper on my mac automatically switch through them. However, all of the solutions I found for this were overly complex, or just plain didn't work on macOS Sierra. So, here's my solution that doesn't require installing anything and is pretty easy to set up.]]>Wed, 01 Mar 2017 23:38:11 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/oncemoreTue, 28 Feb 2017 05:47:19 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/alphabetsources/r/jailbreak over on Reddit to see if there are any that either are interesting, or could be easily done as a minor quality of life tweak. 'AlphabetSources' falls under the second one. Someone made a post asking for an alphabetical view to the repo sources in Cydia.]]>Tue, 28 Feb 2017 05:41:17 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/classyTue, 28 Feb 2017 05:32:35 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/surfshieldthat you can read about here), or something that more closely suited the APIs that were offered by sponsors, and the possible prizes associated with them.]]>Tue, 28 Feb 2017 04:40:10 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/class-dumping-with-cycriptthe only reason I do tweak dev), and you'll also need cycript. Then, you'll need the application you want to dump running. In this case, I'm going to be doing it for Spotify.]]>Sat, 14 Jan 2017 23:47:45 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/victor-talking-backTue, 03 Jan 2017 07:39:07 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/victor-echo-dotTue, 03 Jan 2017 07:38:14 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/victor-belkin-wemo-switchesBelkin WeMo Switch. It was only $30 on sale, and while it had middling reviews (like many of the WiFi-switches), it could be controlled through cURL commands, which made it very easy to hook into Victor. So I set it up, plugged in my light, and spent like 20 minutes trying to set it up with the app, which kept losing the connection. I can't really say it was easy to setup, but it's worked since fine, and it is indeed very easy to programmatically control.]]>Tue, 03 Jan 2017 07:19:17 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/victor-part-2Tue, 03 Jan 2017 05:52:22 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/victormessing around with the Kinect v2 SDK, and had the idea to build out an AI that could see the room, hear commands, and serve as a sort of custom built Siri. This idea for an AI would (eventually) be fleshed out into Victor.]]>Tue, 03 Jan 2017 05:46:11 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dartmouth-banner-possible-exploitSat, 31 Dec 2016 02:25:18 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dartmouth-id-magnetic-stripeMagnetic Reader-Writer for Christmas, so I've been having a blast messing around with it. I wrote a bit about the magnetic stripe over 2 years ago, but most of that was conjecture from one VERY out of date article I found online. So, let's take a look at what's on it now!]]>Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:50:34 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dog-a-day-backendFri, 23 Dec 2016 17:20:46 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/shiftcycle-updateShiftCycle before, so read quickly about it if you missed that blog post. One of the ShiftCycle users messaged me a while ago asking to be able to reorganize the order of changes, which required a rewrite of how the tweak stored permissions. ]]>Tue, 13 Dec 2016 07:53:00 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/facebook-deep-linking-optionsTue, 13 Dec 2016 07:33:03 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dart-dinehttp://nutrition.dartmouth.edu:8088. Our goal was to make a mobile app that would solve all of the UX/UI problems that the current site had, especially when accessing it on mobile, and also combine all dining information into a useful format.]]>Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:09:38 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/sudoku-solver-onlinewhile ago I wrote a Sudoku solver in Python that could programmatically step through the solution, solve the whole thing, or show what options were available for each location. It ended up being a good distraction while I was on a plane with no internet. However, I was on yet another long plane ride and decided to see what I could do to improve on it.]]>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:47:18 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/colorizeColorize. It takes in a search criteria, and then averages the colors returned in the first page of Google Image results to return a single hex color.]]>Mon, 05 Sep 2016 23:52:17 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/pearls-before-swine-indexer/r/PearlsBeforeSwine, and there are a bunch of posts from people trying to track down a specific comic from the past. After trying to help a few people, I figured there was a better way to do it: so I built the Pearls Before Swine Indexer.]]>Mon, 05 Sep 2016 03:13:00 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/gameplanSat, 27 Aug 2016 19:30:24 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/groupmeanalysisThu, 11 Aug 2016 16:30:16 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/movie-displayMon, 08 Aug 2016 02:18:35 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dog-a-dayWed, 15 Jun 2016 20:24:58 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/boingo-exploitTue, 07 Jun 2016 18:04:49 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/sudoku-solver-in-pythonThu, 17 Dec 2015 04:01:20 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/what-makes-a-mobile-game-great-monetizationWed, 02 Dec 2015 07:20:27 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/what-makes-a-mobile-game-great[1] With all of these apps, making a game that stands out is pretty difficult. And making a game that remains popular over a larger period of time is even harder.]]>Wed, 02 Dec 2015 06:06:01 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/whats-line-finishedWed, 02 Dec 2015 06:01:08 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/sardines-optimizing-web-games-part-iiThu, 26 Nov 2015 07:02:27 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/sardines-jumping-into-multiplayer-web-games-part-iThu, 26 Nov 2015 06:29:23 -0500https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/whats-line-almost-doneFri, 30 Oct 2015 16:07:41 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/rigging-polldaddyFri, 25 Sep 2015 21:49:58 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/shiftcycleasking for a tweak. What it did was make it so when you selected text, and clicked shift, it would toggle the text through UPPERCASE, lowercase, and the original text. I thought I could make it, and within a few days it was working great. The source code is up on my GitHub if you want to check it out.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:05:59 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/passcodeactivatorThe source code is up on my GitHub if you want to check it out.]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 17:01:12 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/whats-line-progress-updateWed, 22 Jul 2015 07:27:45 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/running-xcode-apps-without-developer-licenseSun, 19 Jul 2015 23:52:43 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dartmouth-banner-redesign-part-3-the-fixSun, 21 Jun 2015 23:20:11 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/anchor-modificationsFri, 19 Jun 2015 16:30:52 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/redesigning-the-blogThu, 18 Jun 2015 08:15:53 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/whats-line-mockup-i-accountsTue, 16 Jun 2015 00:45:06 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/releasing-python-dartmouthbannerTue, 09 Jun 2015 19:10:55 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/summer-breakSun, 07 Jun 2015 06:40:52 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/banner-security-hole-fixedMon, 18 May 2015 20:28:17 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/update-on-dartmouthroomsearchcomThu, 14 May 2015 22:49:19 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/banner-securityWed, 13 May 2015 04:22:16 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/kinect-for-xbox-one-v2-sdkI downloaded the SDK 2.0 from here and got to work. You have to unplug the Kinect, run the software, and then plug it back in. Now it recognizes as a Kinect (note that I had to use a USB3.0 spot for it).]]>Tue, 05 May 2015 22:50:59 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/making-an-avatar-with-kinectMon, 20 Apr 2015 00:17:43 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/game-ideaSun, 19 Apr 2015 21:42:06 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/pong-line-app-part-1-definitionSun, 19 Apr 2015 20:23:41 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/lone-pine-logoeither a black and white png or the original Illustrator file.]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:49:06 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/cbord-laundryreleased an app that works with our brand of laundry controllers (the ever so fancy LR 3000). But has Dartmouth implemented it? No...that would be too technically progressive. Sigh.]]>Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:28:56 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/pong-line-appMon, 13 Apr 2015 07:17:45 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dartmouthroomsearchcomSun, 12 Apr 2015 16:24:22 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dartmouth-room-search-visuals It worked, to be sure...but it didn't look GOOD. The first major problem was the color scheme. I'm not sure why I went with the blue, but I realized that I probably should have gone with Dartmouth colors. I went to the Dartmouth website, and took the main color. It looks like this: . Now I need a color palette. First off, this site details the process of generating shades of the color you have (note 20% grey = 10% black). I also needed a complementary color, and from the same website observed this link to making a color palette. It utilizes a program called ColorScheme Studio, the free trial version can be downloaded from online. To activate it, you can (hypothetically) use the information located here. I fully support buying it, however.]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:23:58 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dartmouth-room-search-locatingFri, 03 Apr 2015 00:13:12 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dartmouth-room-searchhere, on my Github.]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2015 23:48:15 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/qr-codesThu, 26 Mar 2015 02:22:06 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dartmouth-id-redesignthe early work and the updates by clicking on the links. However, this article is about a possible redesign on the current ID. This is what the current ID look like.]]>Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:57:23 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dartmouth-banner-redesign-part-2-specific-breakdownFinancial Aid Menu Financial Aid Adjustment Survey Request There are no currently available surveys.]]>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:09:31 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/dartmouth-banner-redesign-part-1 When you finally get to the site, you're greeted with this 'beautiful' and totally useful landing page. The 'Help' link brings up a popup window that just says click on the Menu. The 'Site Map' link brings up the same menu options as clicking 'Undergraduate Student Main Menu'. Clicking that brings up one of the worst menus. You'll notice that the links are almost in alphabetical order, which is infuriating. Now, a lot of these links aren't applicable, or available at certain times. The main ones are the following:]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2015 02:58:09 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/router-setup]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2015 21:30:41 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/changing-meal-systemsame location as last time.]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2015 21:18:29 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/update-on-making-didsCanon PIXMA MG7520, available here on Amazon for $200 would probably do. Then, you need an ID tray, one that will work with the printer, but replace the CD/DVD tray. That specific printer uses a type of tray referred to as 'Tray J'. You can buy an ID tray for Tray J type on this great site, brainstormidsupply.com. You can also buy Inkjet PVC cards there for relatively cheap. Finally, you need a template to print to. Using Photoshop, in Print Settings, you can choose Printable disc under media type, and Disc tray J under Printer Paper Size. Then, use a template for Tray J. I couldn't find one online, so I made one that's downloadable here for novelty purposes.]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2015 21:14:03 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/mimicking-the-dartmouth-idTue, 14 Oct 2014 20:56:37 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/accessing-meal-swipe-information-pythonWed, 01 Oct 2014 20:55:33 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/the-dartmouth-idan article written during the resistance to putting RFID chips into US passports. ]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:48:00 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/ethernet-cablesTue, 23 Sep 2014 20:46:38 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/finishing-up-xbox-connectionSat, 06 Sep 2014 20:46:15 -0400https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/wifi-problemsSat, 06 Sep 2014 19:44:36 -0400