Daniel M. Drucker

Search for iMessages

You should be able to search your Apple Messages within Apple Messages. But the built in search is awful, so I made a better one, that lets you do multiple words, regex, filter by person, by group chat, date... it's lightning fast, it shows the context around the

Cathedral

25 years ago, I wrote a Cathedral game board in Flash that you can play over the network with someone. Thanks to Ruffle, it now lives again! Play at eco.3e.org/cathedral - you and your opponent should enter the same names for each other in order to be

I like things that go "clack".

A split-flap display for the browser. Feed it JSON, it clacks. GitHub - dmd/splitflap: A split-flap displayA split-flap display. Contribute to dmd/splitflap development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubdmd

Clue Solver

Greg Stoll has a Clue board game solver/helper that takes all the information you know and figures out what the various probabilities are given all that information. His uses a Python or Rust server-side component; I rewrote it as a single-page app, entirely client-side, and also rewrote the "

Shell browser for Proxmox backups

The GUI for browsing files in PBS (for host backups) and in VE (for VMs) is nice, but sometimes you just want a shell. proxmox-backup-client mount provides one, but that can be a pain to get working, especially when it's a LVM. I wrote a tool that provides

Snails

C loves sl and asciiquarium. Here's an equivalent, but using snails. The actual ascii art snails is taken from various ancient repositories of that sort of thing; I made animated versions (moving the neck and/or the eyes). GitHub - dmd/snail: snailsnail. Contribute to dmd/snail development

Wicked 3

FADE IN: EXT. BEYOND OZ – DUSK Endless badlands. Two tiny FIGURES trek along a crooked path: ELPHABA, travel-worn but sharp-eyed, and FIYERO, a little too pretty for how dusty he is. They walk in tired silence. Wind sighs. Somewhere, a distant THUNDER rumbles. FIYERO You think Glinda misses us? ELPHABA

Music and Lyrics

A few months after C was born I had the idea that at some point I'd want her to be able to play music by herself without my help (and without a screen), just like I was able to with physical tapes and records when I was little.

Marzipan, a waltz

Written for Ariel in 2023 for our 10th anniversary. Performed by Anna Patton, Karen Axelrod, and Molly Tucker at the Whately Dance Barn. Marzipan0:00/164.641×

Turkeys!

In 2006, I was a TA for Dr. Shatte's Psych 001 class at Penn. When I photocopied the midterm exam (just before Thanksgiving), I took the liberty of adding a final page on the back, asking students to "draw a turkey".

And his boots are yellow.

An epilogue to Lord of the Rings. (written after my first re-reading of it since 1993) In a quiet glade untouched by the Ages, a house stood among ancient trees. Inside, that which called itself Tom Bombadil sat at a long table; about his feet, in wide vessels of green

Morse Code to Email

It's 2 AM, and I just had an idea, or something I need to remember. I don't want to disturb my wife by getting up, and even the very-dim light from my phone can be bothersome. Writing is difficult. What's the answer? Morse code,

Buffalo

The sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo", a well-known-to-linguistics-students grammatically correct phrase in English, is very often not presented in a way that helps people understand it. To teach it to my daughter this morning, I took her through it step by step: Cats bully mice. Which

Flights in Location History

I wanted to find all of my flights in my Google Location History, which I've had collecting my phone's GPS location nonstop for 14 years. First, I exported my location history from Takeout. This provides Records.json. Let's turn that into a CSV file

Bedtime!

Times between 6pm and midnight that I have said "bedtime" on irc. Note the bumps for C and S's bedtimes before my own.

I live on a golf course, on average.

The time-weighted geocenter of everywhere I've lived. On average (as of posting this), I live on a golf course in Fairfield, CT.

The Cave of Wonders

Aladdin's Cave of Wonders permits only “the diamond in the rough” to retrieve the lamp. Why? It's inevitable! The cave contains at least two items which can break causality: the carpet and the lamp. (The itinerary in A Whole New World proves the carpet can time-travel.

Three Thousand Muffins

Every Saturday for about the last 5 years, C and S's grandma comes and makes 24 pumpkin muffins. And nearly every morning, they eat two muffins each. I figure C eats two muffins around 300 days a year, for the last five years.

Ada-mew, 2007-2022

We had to say goodbye today.

Stable Diffusion Learns Ariel's Face

Matt Haughey posted a quick how-to on teaching Stable Diffusion a specific face; I followed it and had SD create some pictures of Ariel. It's extremely easy to follow and generates really remarkable results - and quickly, each of these took less than 15 seconds to make (after

Drawings of me

A few times in my life someone has drawn a picture of me. Anna Y., 2011. The one on the right recalls William Sleator's "House of Stairs". 2011. I forget the context. By an artist at Sanrio in 2002 as part of their magazine's

A Shell (bash) Puzzle

Here's a puzzle for bash experts. Create a file named puzzle.3. 1. It must be 3 lines long. 2. All lines except the first must consist solely of the string futz. 3. If you run bash puzzle.3, you should receive (all and only) this response: puzzle.

Escape the box

$ m_env -describe AB_ARTIFICIAL_GENERAL_INTELLIGENCE ab initio version 3.3.3.2 build Linux-x86-gcc4p64 AB_ARTIFICIAL_GENERAL_INTELLIGENCE Value: false Type: boolean Flags: common Export: if set Details: This configuration variable, if set to true, enables artificial general intelligence ('AGI' or 'AI') in the

Google Civil Twilight

Dear users, [ ] MAJOR [ ] MINOR Google service which you [ ] DEPENDED ON TO DO YOUR JOB [ ] BUILT MAJOR PARTS OF YOUR WORKFLOW ON [ ] LIKED A LOT [ ] HAD BEEN MEANING TO TRY OUT, DAMMIT [ ] HAVE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF will be discontinued [ ] LITERALLY TOMORROW [ ] IN SIX MONTHS, AND YOU CAN EXPORT YOUR DATA

The Last Artisans

HERMAN uh grew up watchin' mah pappy make modems with just a chisel an' hacksaw. course, things're different now... BG MUSIC drawn-out harmonica NARRATOR Herman McCowski is one of the last modem artisans in Tennessee. Modems are his life. HERMAN The hell is this! Herman picks