Web Apps

No fluff (unless the recipe calls for it)

I’m tired of online recipes with the author’s life story and tons of popup ads. So I built a minimal web app to extract just the ingredients and instructions.

How good are the latest and greatest LLM agents?

I built a simple Streamlit web app for a DIY electrolyte mix recipe. Embracing the “vibe coding” lifestyle, I decided to let a GitHub Copilot agent do most of the work for me. Here’s how it went. (Spoiler: pretty good but far from perfect)

I couldn't pass up an opportunity for some Streamlit swag!

Streamlit is hosting a hackathon to show off their new connections functionality. I built a simple app implementing semantic search to explore public datasets in the city of Chicago’s Socrata open data platform.

Messing around with Kalman filters to fix noisy Strava activities

I use Strava to track my runs, and sometimes I’m annoyed with how noisy the GPS tracks are. I recently learned about Kalman filtering, a methodology for smoothing noisy data. Let’s see if it can solve my Strava problem. Plus, a small Flask app that integrates with the Strava API.

Analyzing the impact of possible changes

Some of my fantasy football league members want to make changes to defense scoring settings. I’m not sure it’s a good idea, or if it even matters at all. Let’s find out! Featuring a Streamlit web app and the (ugly) Yahoo Fantasy Sports API.

I wanted to try out the popular FastAPI framework. As a learning exercise, I reproduced a simple Flask tutorial using FastAPI.

And using it to prove that I’m a terrible poker player

Elo is a rating system for two-player games, such as chess. I developed a Python implementation of a generalized Elo system that works for multiplayer games. Then I built a web app to track the Elo ratings of my friend group’s poker games. At the risk of personal embarrassment, I’m publishing the results.