Just submitted ForecastSkill to the 2025 OpenWeather Challenge, a Claude Skill that scores weather conditions for activities like skiing, hiking, and picnics as well as gets up-to-date weather forecasts from OpenWeather's API right in your Claude chats.

Code: github.com/kevinl95/ForecastSkill

I’ve just published TeXBloX, a free and open-source Forge app for Confluence that renders LaTeX math natively on your pages.

No CDNs, no data collection! It runs entirely on Atlassian’s infrastructure.

Marketplace link: marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/2235854...

NEW: Senator @wyden.senate.gov says AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication. 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.

Have you ever been accused of a crime that you did not commit? It can be challenging to prove your innocence, but just imagine how hard it can be when law enforcement claims they have surveillance camera footage as proof. Chrisanna Elser spent days collecting evidence to prove her whereabouts. 1/3

WindGuard, a free project I wrote that protects your inflatable holiday decorations with just a smart plug and a few minutes to deploy some code that checks your local weather to the cloud, was featured on Instructables today! #halloween #diy

www.instructables.com/Keeping-Ghos...

Just shipped Web Check CI - automated browser compatibility scanning for GitLab pipelines using Google's Baseline standards.
One-line setup, scans JS/CSS/HTML against baseline years, shows issues in merge requests!

Open source of course: gitlab.com/loefflerlabs...

"Quishing", or QR-code phishing, is on the rise!

www.QRTrust.fyi is a web app I made that you can use on your Android or iOS phone to scan QR codes and find out if the website they link to is suspicious. It works by checking each url against the crowd-sourced PhishTank database!

For Postmark’s Inbox Innovators hackathon I built a cool new project! EmailDrop uploads email attachments straight to your Google Drive. Great for teachers, freelancers, or anyone tired of inbox clutter or file management!

More here: dev.to/mrmemory/dro...

#Postmark #Serverless #Python

Just glue some gears on it and call it Steampunk...

Spotted at Six Flags America

Wrote a fun privacy tool called Privotron to help folks opt out of data broker databases (you know, the sites that trade your info likely without your knowledge or consent). It's actually a framework so the community can contribute "playbooks" to opt out of more brokers!

dev.to/mrmemory/dat...

Did you know that a product's barcode can tell you a lot about where a company does business? OriginTrackr is a free, offline-ready progressive web app I have built that scans barcodes and tells you in what country a product's barcode is registered.
dev.to/mrmemory/ori...

If you were also worried that you missed the nova of T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) this week, it looks like we will be waiting until November to see if the Blaze Star will go off: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Coron...

In light of reports that Signal links are being blocked on X, learn how to use your own domain to create censorship-resistant links for use on social media: dev.to/mrmemory/cre...

🤔 Ever driven off and thought, "Did I leave the garage open?" Meet Garage Guardian—my Hackster.io Junk Drawer entry! 🚪💡

Using a smart bulb and AWS, it tracks your garage door so you don’t have to. Swap your opener's bulb and deploy it with one click!

www.hackster.io/kevin-loeffl...

🛡️ Meet ScamSense 🛡️

Built to protect users, especially seniors, from fraud and scams, it delivers:
🔔 Daily scam alerts from today's headlines
🔑 Easy scam avoidance tips
Try it now on your Alexa device, or check out the code in the comments:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRPRHXNF/

#Cyber #Fraud #AlexaSkill

This holiday season, I’m bringing a little tech magic to the North Pole! Meet SambaSanta, which uses SambaNova Cloud’s lightning-fast AI models to let kids send letters to Santa and receive personalized replies via email! 🎉

Deploy it with a single click to AWS here: github.com/kevinl95/Sam...

Learn how to build your own map of MTA E-ZPass retailers and color-code them based on wheelchair accessibility using Python, Folium, and Netlify! This was my submission for the 2024 MTA Open Data Challenge (new.mta.info/article/cele...)! Link: github.com/kevinl95/ez-...

My latest project was recently featured on Instructables! In this guide I will show you how to build a low-power credit card skimmer detecting keychain. These skimmers, often found in gas pumps and ATMs, emit a Bluetooth signal that this keychain can detect.
www.instructables.com/Making-an-E-...