Tom Casavant

[Skip to conclusion] A few weeks ago I wrote about security issues in AI generated code.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to write a blog post about my thoughts on AI.

Over the past few months, I've amassed the world's largest collection of Meshtastic devices (read: 4), and using my newfound power, I have built a Mastodon client that doesn't require an internet connection¹.

Last year I wrote about everything I hadn't written about and now I have done it again.

Early last year I had built a plugin for Steam Decky Loader that would upload your screenshots to a mastodon-compatible API.

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One of the problems I have with a lot of my Open Source projects is the code tends to be difficult to use in other projects because the classes end up blending into each other until it makes zero sense to pull out any of the code.

There were a few different projects I was working on the last month, most didn't feel all that worthy of a blog post.

A while ago, Google started displaying relevant tweets whenever you searched for anything, allowing you to see more up-to-date news on whatever you were searching for because Twitter (for a long time) was where news would often drop first, before organiza…

Blogs # I enjoy reading blogs.

On February 10th, almost entirely because I found a repo that lets you interface with gameboy and gameboy color games via python, I launched a bot that lets you play pokemon by voting in polls in the social web.

Here's a bunch of things I did that, for any number of reasons, I didn't bother writing about.

Everyone on mastodon is always 'federated timeline' this and 'local timeline' that but nobody ever asks, where's OUR timeline?

I have never been a fan of hashtags and for most of my life I've never bothered to use them.

I've found the easiest way to learn how software works is to try and do something stupid with it.

I was working on a project and ran into a problem where I had to rank a set of objects based on an subjective value.

Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup It's all around you, everywhere you turn you hear them yell Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup, Ketchup You start to run, you don't know where you're going,…

A Markov Chain is a model that finds the probability of an event occurring based on the current state.

Around a decade ago I purchased this old radio from a garage sale to listen to music and other radio programs.

Not long ago I had to deal with the unfortunate system that is Ohio State bureaucracy.

I own a smart watch (vivosport) that tracks my runs and other activities.

Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a makeathon (a hackathon but focused on hardware) called Make OH/IO with two of my roommates, Spencer Christian (Linkedin) and Kwangeon Kim.

Last semester I was taking a course at OSU called Foundations of Software Engineering.

Back in November, my brother and I decided to participate in the Hack OH/IO program (http://hack.osu.edu/) that takes place at The Ohio State University.

Over the past year, I've been programming Alexa skills* after I learned how to do it back in November.

In the previous post, we set up our database to save messages from Slack.

In the previous post, we developed a program that can read all previous slack posts, as well as actively listen for current slack posts.

The purpose of this program is to read messages from Slack (https://slack.com/) and store them in a database using Mongo.

On Reddit, there is a bot named autotldr (https://www.reddit.com/user/autotldr) who uses one of the various text summarizer websites (i.e. http://textsummarization.net/text-summarizer) to simplify different news articles posted on Reddit in a few sentence…

On my Spotify account, there is a single playlist, a playlist with 14 hours worth of music that has been accumulating for months upon months.

Cleverbot recently released an official API (that allows for 5,000 free requests every month) and with that, I wanted to experiment with this chat AI.

I was looking into different python libraries that might be interesting to use, when I encountered the markovify library (https://github.com/jsvine/markovify).

Recently, I have been playing around with Twython (https://twython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), a Twitter Api wrapper for Python.

The first part of making an extension for chrome is that you need the manifest file, so create a text file and name is manifest.json The manifest file basically says what your project is all about, and different things your project needs to run.

To begin making an app for your "dumb" phone you have to setup the IDE.

Recently I received a raspberry pi(http://www.raspberrypi.org/) as a Christmas gift.