Hello, yes I’d like to speak to the (developer experience) manager! 🤬
☝️That was me a few weeks ago when I first tried using the SEC API.
I’ve integrated with a lot of APIs over the years, but none...
Knowledge graphs are powerful tools to visualize and explore your data, and can help uncover new insights and patterns in how your data is related. They are easy to search and navigate, but getting...
Reddit offers several different options for integrating web apps, scripts, and installed apps. Just go to https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/ to create a new app and select the type.
In this guide,...
Google Apps Scripts is incredible for a free product. There are so many things you can automate using script triggers and Google Sheets, Gmail, Docs, Calendar, and the rest of the Google ecosystem....
Markdown is used widely in programming, documentation, content creation, GitHub, and lots of other areas in tech. One of the most popular Markdown editors is Obsidian, a note taking app with an...
Just over a year ago, I had no real experience in recording video tutorials, or in the editing or distribution process. I had experimented with a few, but never consistently, and I had no idea what I...
I get a LOT of spam email that make it passed Google’s spam detection, and I’m constantly marking emails as spam and blocking senders. It’s a never-ending battle. Most of them end with something...
Adding images to a Google Doc is no problem, but getting them back out can be a pain. I’ve written about this before with Five Ways to Extract All Images From a Google Doc, and more recently, with...
Recently I needed to upload some data from a local FileMaker database to a REST API as part of a migration. FileMaker’s Insert from Url script step uses curl requests for sending data to another API,...
Organizational charts help visualize the reporting structure of a company in a tree-like graph. They are usually created with a design tool, and lots of manual data entry. Then, every time an employee...
Web Viewers in FileMaker Pro are like an escape hatch. When you hit the limits of the native FMP platform, you can always extend it with a web viewer to add new functionality. You can add some really...
Lexical density measures word frequency within text.
That sentence had a lexical density of 100%, but it's a little hard to understand. Let's unpack it.
Lexical density, in the context of text...
Choropleth maps are similar to heat maps, but with regions defined by geometry, rather than a grid. These maps are useful for displaying aggregate values for each region, like census or voting totals,...
Google Maps has a ton of features for plotting points on a map, but what if you want to plot points on an image? These XY Image Plot maps are commonly used for floor maps, job site inspections, and...
Heatmaps are a great way to visualize aggregate data so you can easily see trends and spikes in the data. They can summarize data across a range of time, display traffic and weather patterns, or any...
Google Sheets has a ton of different chart types built-in, but there are a few types missing like Class, Sequence and Sankey diagrams, to name a few. When it comes to these types of charts, you...
FileMaker Pro's layout design tools are top-notch. Between Form View, List View, Sub-Summary Parts, and Table View, you can build just about any type of UI you want... EXCEPT Grid Layouts! Yes, there...
I just found an old script I wrote that others might find useful, so I wanted to share. This script saves a file to Google Drive when you POST its URL to the webapp, using this format:
{
'key':...
Hey, Joseph from GreenFlux, LLC here. I'm a full-time freelancer and a HUGE fan of Appsmith ! I've written a few other tutorials for Appsmith before but this one is gonna be a little...
In this tutorial, I'll be writing a general purpose Apps Script Web App to save a cloud-hosted file to Google Drive as a new file, when the original file url is POST-ed to the script's web app...
I've been having a lot of fun building with Appsmith lately and wanted to do something with Google Contacts.
It's easy to connect to a new API from Appsmith, but it's not so easy to enable the Google...
Apps Script is a powerful tool for automating routine tasks with Google Sheets, Docs, Gmail, and other Google services. On a recent job, I needed to create a daily backup of a Google Sheet for a...