Water Your Plants Water Your Plants (Microsoft Power Apps) Water Your Plants is an app I created that reminds me to check my plants for watering. Key features: * Average of recent watering intervals * Next Watering date, as well as a Days Left countdown * Visual cue on cards when waterings are due I developed Water Your Plants with Microsoft Power
Event Planner Events/Invitation Manager on Android The most important part of an excellent gathering is the people. This solution helped me keep track of the people. I invite my friends to events one email, one text, one conversation at a time. It's a useful method in many ways, but it's difficult to
Train Finder Train Finding Alexa Skill To make my morning commute easier, I created an Alexa skill that grabs real-time train data and tells me when my next three trains are due to arrive at my station.
What's Your Type Myers-Briggs Database on Android As a warm up for a more complicated app, I created a database that tracks my friends' Myers-Briggs type.
Analog Technology Replacing Smart Speakers With Better & Older Technology Smart speakers aren't very smart... downgrade your tech to upgrade your life.
Designing A Better Workplace HR Tech Stack Considerations I was doing some research, recently, and couldn't find useful examples of HR Tech Stacks. Besides companies pitching how their own products might fit into a hypothetical HR Stack, I didn't see much out there. So if anyone finds it helpful, (including me in the future,
Designing A Better Society A Pandemic Communications Wish List "This seems harder than it should be." If you took my entire pandemic vibe and distilled it to a single sentence, I think that would be the sentence. For all of the COVID-19 pandemic, I've had this feeling that I'm more confused than I
Designing A Better Workplace A Good Manager Wants To Manage People A constituent part of being a good manager is considering if you actually want to manage people. After 15+ years of observation and HR experience, my sense is this: "I want to manage people" isn't the reason most people become managers. Some people want more money,
Microsoft365 Task Queueing with Microsoft Planner and To Do Previously on C. Kennedy Design, I described staying productive and included some detail on how I use Microsoft Planner and Microsoft To Do. I've continued to contemplate how I plan projects and move them to completion and I couldn't help but wonder... Is perfect planning/tasking
Projects, et al Using Python and Python-Docx to build Word Docs As someone who loves automating things, I've learned to... well... not. It's often not worth it. I'll look to automate if I think it will improve the accuracy of a process that needs to be particularly accurate (e.g. calculating commissions)[1]. I'
Projects, et al How To: A Spotify Alarm Clock for Raspberry Pi Alarm clocks are the devil and I hate them. Sleeping is the best, and I don't know why we willingly ruin such a delightful activity with terrible auditory violence. But I'm here to tell you there's something else: a Spotify Alarm Clock. If I&
Projects, et al How To: Manually Installing Ghost The software behind CKDSN.com is an open source publishing platform called Ghost. Ghost is great. [note: At some point I decided to have Ghost host/manage the site instead of doing it myself. As such, these instructions won't be updated as I'm no longer involved
