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[0] Index (Listed in order of how proud I am of them.)
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- Rusty Krab Manager [1]
- tinyjam [2]
- thesecretpot [3]
- African ND-GAIN Climate Change [4]
- Art Manager [5]
- Public Works [6]
- Baby Name Game [7]
- Ethical License [8]
- Random Month Scheduler [9]
- Vis+Pywal [10]
- Shnippets [11]
- Vibecode Badge [12]
- Labrats [13]
- Photfolio [14]
[1] Rusty Krab Manager
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A Rust TUI designed to randomly and robustly manage what you're doing. Based on
the pomodoro technique. Allows users to selectively weight different groups of
tasks based on the day of the week, and provides higher weights to events whose
due dates are closer.
Github: aryakaul/rusty-krab-manager
[2] tinyjam
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A shell script to download and play NPR Tiny Desk Concerts in a manner that I
enjoy.
Github: aryakaul/tinyjam
[3] thesecretspot
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Automated script to download the playlist of one of the grooviest radio shows I
have ever listened to, the secret spot
Github: aryakaul/thesecretspot
[4] African ND-GAIN Climate Change
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Data visualization project for Kennedy School class on Africa's future in
global politics. Visualizes indicator variables used by Notre Dame's Global
Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) to showcase climate changes' disparate effects on
Africa and the Sahel.
Click here!
Github: aryakaul/AfricanClimateChange-NDgain
[5] Art Manager
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There is a ton of art in the world today. TOO MUCH. This is a static website
generator so that you may log your thoughts on any art without any of these
stupid companies selling your data for popsicles.
This is what mine looks like
Github: aryakaul/art-manager
[6] Public Works
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There are a number of excellent essays/novels/speeches/poems in the public
domain for which no well-formatted pdf exists. Without changing the source
material, this project simply involves me type-setting some of these works in
a cohesive manner through Latex. If you have any suggestions for pieces to
include, feel free to email them to me! I'm more than happy to share raw tex
files on request.
Here they are!
[7] Baby Name Game
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Do you have a friend who is having a baby? Are the friends of that friend
interested in guessing the name of the future child? Are the friends of that
friend interested in having a logical alignment-based score to see whose guess
was the closest to the actual baby name?
This script first reads all names on Social Security applications from
1880-2022 and generates a co-occurrence matrix for each character. We deem
this substitution matrix NAMELY62.
It then calculates the Needleman-Wunsch alignment of each person's guess to
the real baby name and computes a score for each guessed name. The winner is
outputted at the end!
Github: aryakaul/baby-name-game
[8] Ethical License
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My software license of choice. It prevents downstream users/extenders from
using the licensed software in any applications that involve fossil fuel
consumption, surveillance, or advertising.
Github: aryakaul/ethical-license
[9] Random Month Scheduler
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Tool to randomly schedule recurring events for a given month. Allows one to
specify the average number of events desired for a given month, and one to
preferentially weight weekends or weekdays to do these events on.
Github: aryakaul/random-month-scheduler
[10] Vis + Pywal
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dylanaraps/pywal is a tool to automatically generate a colorscheme from your
wallpaper. Vis (dpayne/cli-visualizer) is a tool to visualize audio streams
from your computer. This is a simple script to automatically generate a
colorscheme for Vis based on Pywal's chosen colors. Featured on It's FOSS.
Github: aryakaul/cli-visualizer_pywal
[11] Shnippets
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A collection of shell scripts I wrote to do a variety of dumb things.
Github: aryakaul/shnippets
[12] Vibecode Badge
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A simple Python script and GitHub Action that stamps a badge onto your README
reporting the self-reported percentage of a codebase that was 'vibe-coded' (i.e.
written with LLM assistance). An honest signal of how much of the code the
author actually understands.
Github: aryakaul/vibecode-badge
[13] Labrats
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A local tool to triage the firehose of new preprints. You give it filtering
criteria and your own research context, and a team of LLM-powered 'labrats' -
each with a distinct persona - reads every new abstract, scores it, and writes
up their thoughts in a clean webpage so you can pick what is worth reading in
depth. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or local models.
Github: aryakaul/labrats
[14] Photfolio
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A minimal, performance-focused static site generator for photography portfolios.
Drop your photos in a folder, run the build, and get a responsive CSS-grid
gallery with album support, image optimization, lazy loading, and a pure-CSS
lightbox - no JavaScript required.
Github: aryakaul/photfolio
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Arya Kaul (C) now - forever