Webscraping for dates of birth and death of female scientists

Content: Motivation Idea Implementation Conclusion Next steps Additional information Motivation A friend of mine is a member of the organisation “500 Women Scientists” which advocates for equality and openness in science. As a member of the local Pod of Heidelberg, she is responsible for the Pods Social Media activity. To have some easy content to … Read more

Random weird magic weapons

Refresh page to get another 10 weapons with a 9 % chance for them to have one slightly magic effect and 1 % to have two. Name Class Description Type Price Axe Weapon (Battleaxe) NONE Non-magic 10 GP Winged Bludgeon Weapon (Greatclub), uncommon (requires attunement) Once per long rest, the bearer may use an action … Read more

Random DnD names based on plants

Refresh page to get another 10 names. Latin English German Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume Cinnamom-tree Acacia farnesiana L. Sweet Acacia Kassia Akazie Cotinus coggygria Scop. Smoke-tree Perückenstrauch Populus canescens (Ait.) Sm. Grey Poplar Grau Pappel Sideritis montana L. Ironwort Feld Gliedkrauf Sambucus nigra L. Elder Impatiens noli-tangere L. Touch-me-not Wald Springkraut Festuca ovina L. Sheep’s Fescue … Read more

Poisons

How to extract Each poison has a certain DC that decides whether it works or not. To extract a poison, the character has to have a Poisoner’s kit and spend a number of minutes equal to the poison’s DC uninterruptedly extracting it. The character has to pass a Nature check against the poison’s DC to … Read more

Learning and Teaching

This article describes my homebrew system for learning and teaching skills (weapons/tools/etc) or languages (including Druidic and Thief’s cant). I assume that the player has a source of knowledge, either another being that is proficient in that skill or a scripture containing the relevant knowledge. Since I don’t like the system from XGtE (p. 134), … Read more

Bella Italia

An image of an PhD hat.

Tim2021-12-06 Table of contents The Microscope The Western Blot Chamber The Coffee Pot 3D printing Electronics Code One of the best things about doing a PhD in Germany (imho) is the tradition, that your research group makes some form of graduation hat for you. You are “awarded” this hat after your successful defense and can … Read more

Fixing my broken Antlion USB ModMic

Using Christmas 2020 as an opportunity to imporve my home office setup, I got myself a nice dedicated Antlion USB ModMic. Knowing that Bluetooth microphones sometimes are a bit troublesome under Ubuntu, I got the wired version. A wire which I accidentally rolled over with my office chair, ripping the microphone itself out of the … Read more

Automatically create Trello cards through Python webscraping

Content: Motivation Idea Basic implementation Optimization and automation Identifying the target list within my Trello account Scrape data from different sources and convert it to Trello cards Plugging it all together Conclusion Next steps Additional information Motivation As part of my M.Sc. studies, I have to attend 45 talks given by professionals in my field. … Read more