MeFi Projects

I was fiddling with a little personal project and needed to start writing some GUI code. GUI code is a pain in the butt to write and I really just wanted to get on with my project. So, obviously, I spent over a week writing a whole package to wrap Python's default GUI package, tkinter. As you do. [more inside]
posted by Mister_Sleight_of_Hand on Feb 13, 2021 - 0 comments

Publishes GitHub gists in a friendly article format, with a little help from Tufte CSS. Accepts Markdown, syntax-highlights code, renders math symbols beautifully. [more inside]
posted by daveliepmann on Sep 3, 2019 - 2 comments

I learned about Nomic games a few days ago, so made one to help new developers learn the basics of Github pull request workflows so they can contribute to open source projects. It's aimed particularly at the freeCodeCamp community, but all are welcome. Even if you are a seasoned Github contributor, you are welcome to play, too, because Nomic is an extremely fun game!
posted by man down under on Nov 11, 2018 - 2 comments

A Twitterbot that posts freely-licensed photographs of clocks. [more inside]
posted by Vesihiisi on Aug 17, 2018 - 1 comment

Magically translate AskMe song recommendations into Spotify playlists (it takes a minute or two). [more inside]
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? on Nov 27, 2016 - 5 comments

I code up lots of odd and questionably useful computer programs, and I decided to start a blog to document some of my favorites as I put them up on github. In the month that I've been working on the site, I've posted around 14,000 words and five repositories. [more inside]
posted by ubermuffin on Sep 3, 2016 - 4 comments

There were no good tools for downloading your Livejournal archive here in the year of our lord 2016, so I dusted off my exceedingly dusty Ruby book and set about trying to see if I could maybe fix that. [more inside]
posted by Sokka shot first on Jul 10, 2016 - 9 comments

Applying for visas is a pain in the ass - there's a lot of paperwork to deal with, and a ton of personal information to keep track of. So we've created a tracking app to help you manage all of that. [more inside]
posted by divabat on Apr 8, 2015 - 4 comments

A sampling of log statements as they get pushed to Github (a site that hosts open source code). Logs usually contain human-readable messages that are used by programmers to give themselves an idea of what's going on in the case that their software is having problems or behaving unexpectedly.
posted by ignignokt on Mar 19, 2015 - 0 comments

For residents of CO, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD, WI, and WY: this is a page that formats the National Weather Service Central Region's "weather story" forecast information for your iPhone, including an icon so you can it to your home screen. Information on how to customize to your location is in the extended description. Source on Github. [more inside]
posted by stopgap on Sep 12, 2012 - 2 comments

Consequence.js is a small Javascript library for reactive programming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming [more inside]
posted by hanoixan on Apr 1, 2011 - 2 comments