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I noticed a while back that a lot of new romantic comedies (especially those pumped out by streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime) have optimized their formulas to the point that you can predict basically the whole plot from just the title and m…

I have been getting into crossword constructing, but found the initial process of staring at a blank 15x15 grid to be one of my least favorite parts.

Back in 2016 I wrote some code to automatically transcribe 'Pearls Before Swine' comic strips to make them searchable.

I often forget how to do this, but I find it incredibly useful so here's a quick image-rich tutorial on how to set up a Screenshots folder in your dock on macOS that's visually accessible:

My brother is an artist (check out his stuff at https://www.instagram.com/beals.art/ or at https://spencerbeals.com).

I was up on campus again for my 5 year reunion, and it felt wrong to not be doing something slightly sketch around the Dartmouth ID, just for old time's sake.

My family's dog of 10 years, Neko, unfortunately passed away a couple of months ago.

For years, Spotify had a way to import playlists from iTunes into Spotify.

I recently was in the market for a watch.

For one of my final CS classes, I was brainstorming a list of tech that I hadn't developed anything for or worked with, and screensavers on Mac were on the list as something that would probably lend itself to an easy short-term project.

A few weeks ago, I was considering entering the Dartmouth hackathon, but decided not to because I woke up too late to give someone else a chance to win.

Grayscale Lock is a Cydia tweak that allows you to set grayscale status on an app-by-app basis.

About 3 months ago I watched this video by Numberphile on the "Trinity Hall Prime".

A while ago I made GroupMe 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.

I have had a task since February of 2017 in Asana to see if I could figure out how to rename desktops.

I've played a fair amount of Settlers of Catan in my day, and I find that a lot of the skill in the game comes from the initial placements.

For some reason, my version of Anchor completely bugs out when you start increasing the size of the text input beyond a certain point.

Back about a year ago, I made a blog post about DartDine, my final project for my Human-Computer Interaction class.

I was working on a project in extracting typing from hand movement in 3D space, and needed an API for generating sentences.

I just released my most recent tweak, Mercury, which you can check out on my Cydia repo or just look at the source on GitHub.

When I got to college a friend introduced me to a drinking game called "Ride the Bus."

Google Groups are one of the products that has languished in 2014 in terms of its feature set and visual design.

As many of my posts on this blog reference, my phone is jailbroken.

I realize that this blog isn't the standard one, where someone would write about how they were feeling, or reblog pictures of cute dogs (that's what I have Instagram for!).

Previously, the images weren't ideal on the blog.

I was getting a lot of spam messages on this blog, so I decided it was long overdue to add a captcha to the form submission.

I tried to deeplink into the Venmo app, but couldn't find a lot of public documentation on it.

Just a small thing that I found out about today and wanted to write down somewhere.

I find that I commonly open chats in Messages on my computer to make the 'unread' indicator go away.

I was talking to a friend from college about automatically generating flavortext and death messages for a game, to keep it unique.

The Wall Street Journal has a bunch of super insightful articles.

A few days ago, I stumbled upon some Firewatch wallpapers for the different times of day, and wanted to have the wallpaper on my mac automatically switch through them.

OnceMore is another Cydia tweak that I developed, and probably the one that I use and benefit from the most.

Every so often I go through the [Request] posts on /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.

I have a love/hate relationship with Dartmouth.

In September, me and a few friends entered HackDartmouth III, a Dartmouth-based hackathon.

I keep forgetting how to do this, so I thought that I would just write it down somewhere.

I got it into my head that I wanted to be able to programmatically make my phone speak whatever I wanted it to.

For Christmas, in addition to the WeMo switch I also got the Amazon Echo Dot.

For Christmas, one of the gifts that I got was a Belkin WeMo Switch.

But of course, that isn't the end.

I started this blog when I first got to Dartmouth.

When you're requesting pages (such as transcripts, DASH, etc.) through Dartmouth Banner, you slowly accumulate cookies.

It's been a while since I've played with the Dartmouth ID's, but my brother got me a Magnetic Reader-Writer for Christmas, so I've been having a blast messing around with it.

When I first created Dog-a-Day, it ran off of a PHP script that had the images for the days in an array.

I posted about ShiftCycle before, so read quickly about it if you missed that blog post.

For some reason, the deeplinking URLs aren't publicized anywhere by Facebook.

Dart Dine was the culmination project for CS89, Human Computer Interaction.

A while 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.

A while ago I was designing a website, and wanted a good color blue.