Hacker Dojo Python Group

2024-06-21

Hacker Dojo is a collaborative hackerspace in Silicon Valley where tech enthusiasts gather to build, experiment and improve. The Hacker Dojo Python Group is a group of people interested in learning more about developing in the Python programming language. We meet every Tuesday night at 6:30 at the…

programming

Dav2Mp4 Convert security cam DAV to MP4

2017-08-15

Many security cameras export video in a proprietary format called DAV which is difficult to work with. I wrote this program to convert DAV videos into standard MP4 video. […] I’ve worked on several projects involving video from security cameras, and in most cases the video was stored in…

python, forensics, programming, video-editing

Dave Says Thats Not Funny

2017-05-24

Dave doesn’t think any of my jokes are funny. I keep trying but he always says the same thing, “That’s not funny”. So like all repetitive processes, I automated it. This page scrapes jokes from Reddit/r/Jokes and presents them here as texts to Dave. I put a ‘Load more…

tech: javascript, programming, jquery

Ghost Solver - Now in Clojure

2016-12-20

My previous post was about a Python program to calculate the moves to guarantee a win in the puzzle word game ‘Ghost’. The algorithm was naturally recursive and felt ‘LISPy’. @pdlug has been telling me how writing in Clojure will expand my mind, make me more productive and…

tech: clojure, games, puzzles, programming

Ghost Solver - In Which We Ruin a Great Game

2016-11-26

My son showed me a new word game, ‘Ghost’, and I wrote a Python program to “solve” the game and find all winning sequences. The game played like this: We took turns adding a letter to a growing word fragment, trying not to be the one to complete a valid word. Each fragment…

tech: python, games, puzzles, programming