Automation

In the European Union, Google no longer displays the birthdays of your contacts in Google Calendar due to GDPR regulations. While this change enhances privacy, it can be inconvenient for those who rely on these reminders. To address this, I’ve developed a browser-based tool that processes your Google Contacts export and generates an ICS file for import into Google Calendar. This ensures your contacts’ birthdays are displayed as recurring events. The tool operates entirely within your browser, ensuring no data is transmitted to any server. You can review the source code on GitHub. ...

In 2024, E-Fellows.net, an online scholarship and career platform, hosted a sweepstakes on Halloween. In their collection of employer portraits, pages presenting various companies, they had hidden images of pumpkin ‘baskets’, containing candies. To enter the sweepstakes, I had the following objectives: Find 8 filled pumpkin baskets Note the names of the companies they were hidden on Note the motive shown on the candies packaging Note the number of candies in each basket As E-Fellows has a rather large company portfolio, I didn’t want to use a substancial amount of my time on reading advertisement. Instead, I decided to write a web scraper to do the job for me, and got a little practice for my web-scraping skills in the process. ...