Ori Marash

Inside Campfire, I prompted cursor "How do we do infinite loading in the account users display?" Here's the result: The infinite loading for account users is implemented using Turbo Streams and…

At FrameSports we needed some data entry done quickly, so we turned to Amazon's Mechanical Turk. I wanted to check that our hundreds of tasks were going through the system properly and that the…

Day 2 of the Advent of Code coding challenge. Restated problems: 1. You are given a list of "records". Each record is a list of numbers (called "levels"). How many of the records follow both these…

Academorphic, a tool for university students working on their dissertation, is designed to simplify the process of writing literature reviews. It's a fork of Morphic (GitHub). Academorphic…

I needed an implementation for generating partitions of a set for FrameSports.ai (long story) and couldn't find a working implementation online

I recorded this demo video about six months ago showing my ideal todo system. Some key features: * Capture: When you type new things into the system, you don't see anything else. This lets you…

ActiveCortex is a Ruby gem that makes it faster to integrate OpenAI with Ruby on Rails applications. Ruby on Rails is a framework for building web apps. It's been around for 20 years and has big…

One of my clients was searching to hire another developer. I was responsible for one of the steps in this hiring process: I verified the candidate could write good code. Through this process, I…

I've been playing around with using ChatGPT to answer my Rails-related questions. But I find that it often runs into problems. I decided to write a custom GPT to avoid them.

I've just looked back at every email I've received from followupthen.com. I was surprised to see 253 results, with the first coming back over two years ago! I hadn't realised how a free tool that…

I used to have this problem when doing maths where I would read my own handwriting wrong: I'd read my u's as v's and z's as 2's. I called these "silly" mistakes, but they added up.

Everyone has things coming into their life: email, messages, people telling you to do something, bills, whatever. I like how Getting Things Done deals with this: capture these things when they…

If you've got some code that's calling Rails.cache.fetch and you want to test that it's working properly, you can use the following method helper to stub the cache: def stub_rails_cache(&block)…

I've been tinkering with my to-do list system for ages but I keep coming back to the approach I read about in Getting Things Done by David Allen. In my system, I separate between "Projects" and…

Two Rooms One Boom is a game which I learned how to play in Year 9. We called it Communists and Americans but I think the game developers wanted something more PG. To play it, you need to deal…

For my computer science coursework (which will have a writeup later), I need to write a report. This report is important as it is the main factor in influencing how many marks I get. I have a few…

Firebase is great because it lets you plug in an authentication system super easily. Basically, all you have to do is write something like: firebase.auth().signIn() and bam! Your user is signed…

In my school, we use a tool called "Canvas" to manage the homework, tests, lessons, etc. in school. Canvas is open-sourced (all the code is on GitHub), so editing the code is quite easy. However,…

To prove the existence of dark matter, you need to detect super-radiation from particles under specific conditions. My team's task was to calibrate very senesitve light sensors (called…

As part of a school fundraiser, our class had to find some way to raise money for a charity. One of the students in our class (Miles Hinders-Green) had the idea to run a contest to see who could…

Here's a link to my TedX talk on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1_AlvWJiH4 Following is the transcript. Going to Mathsland For the past few years, I’ve been trying to learn French. I’ve…

I'm legally required to say that we don't hack computers, we're just program. (I promise!) Hack Club is a programming club I run in my school every Tuesday at 4 pm. It is part of a larger group of…