Hi! If you haven't guessed from the website title, you are on the blog of John "Jeffrey" Westhoff.
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Now that that's out of the way, below you'll find my random blog posts in newest-first order - enjoy!
Removing Boilerplate In Teams Messages Via Email
Written Feb 1, 2024 - Blog
Microsoft Teams allows you to message a channel by sending an email to a certain address. This is great unless you are at a corporation that appends some boilerplate to all outgoing emails. Then it is frustrating and sad.
Continue reading ↦Towards More Accessible Video Games: Part 1 - Overthinking Everything
Written Sep 16, 2022 - Projects
I mentioned recently a desire to create more accessible computer games. In this blog, I briefly cover some early findings towards that goal.
Continue reading ↦July 2022 Update
Written Jul 17, 2022 - Blog
I haven’t really worked on anything I felt was worth posting here, but I really don’t want to have gone an entire half year with no blog post. So, I figured I’d do a write-up of everything I have done since I last posted, mostly with the intent of it being a reminder that I actually did stuff.
Continue reading ↦JSON Viewer
Written Mar 2, 2022 - Projects
Free json viewer built using this library I found.
Continue reading ↦AlephZeroChess 2 - Lessons Learned from WASM
Written Dec 18, 2021 - Projects
I’ve had some new-found motivation to work on my big chess game, but hit a silly problem.
Continue reading ↦Building A Physical Bridge Might Be Cheaper
Written Oct 14, 2021 - BlogEleven days ago I wrote about the great digital divide. Today, I rant about the cost of bridging that divide. I’ve done a fair bit to try to secure better internet up here. For one, I bugged Spectrum, the big ISP around here, into giving me a quote on a service install. A lot more on that later. I also got a Visible SIM card, giving us a three-tiered solution for the time being.
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