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Tutorials

A selection of tutorials I wrote. Covered topics include making small personal websites, working with and visualizing data, web APIs, creative bots, and WordPress.

Make your website or blog fediverse-ready

Verify your fediverse account and include author link with when your site, blog, or articles are shared.

tutorial 📅 2 months ago

A tinted screenshot of a Mastodon profile page with four verified website links.

How to make a website in 5 minutes: (Almost) No code version

Make a website with a no-code tool, use it to verify your fediverse account.

tutorial 📅 2 months ago

A tinted screenshot showing a Mastodon post from an account with a verified website that includes a link to t he same website.

How to make a website in 5 minutes

(Or so.)

tutorial 📅 8 months ago

A tinted screenshot of a very simple website titled ‘Welcome to Stefan’s website!’ Beneath the title is a description: ‘Here’s where you can find me online!’ Further below is a list of links: – My Mastodon – My SoundCloud – My award-winning online bots

Making a free image gallery with 11ty and Neocities.org

A gentle introduction to static site generators.

tutorial 📅 9 months ago

A tinted screenshot of the finished project, a gallery of 8 images in a four-by-2 grid with a brief intro text above it.

Making a free image gallery with Neocities.org

A third attempt at teaching you how to make a simple image gallery.

tutorial 📅 9 months ago

A tinted screenshot of the finished project, a gallery of 8 images in a four-by-2 grid with a brief intro text above it.

Opting out of AI in popular software and services

Not a fan of AI in your favorite program or service? There's usually a way out!

tutorial 📅 a year ago

A stylized monochrome drawing of a person sitting down with their legs crossed, reading a book, deeply focused.

Adding ALT text to article thumbnails on social media

Helping make the web a bit more accessible.

tutorial 📅 2 years ago

A tinted screenshot of a Mastodon post where an article is shared. The featured image thumbnail is overlaid with a tooltip that contains the alt text describing the image.

Making a Mastodon bot with Google Sheets and Apps Scripts: Part 2

Now with a chart!

tutorial 📅 2 years ago

A Mastodon post from a test bot account showing an image of a line chart attached.

Making a Mastodon bot with Google Sheets and Apps Scripts

A quick walkthrough on how to set up a Mastodon bot that posts data from a spreadsheet.

tutorial 📅 2 years ago

A tinted collage screenshot of a donations table in Google Sheets overlaid with a post from a bot summarizing the total amount of donations.

Making a map of UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Learn the basics of working with Wikidata and Mapbox.

tutorial outdated 📅 2 years ago

A tinted screenshot of a grayscale globe with a few hundred pins showing locations of various UNESCO World Heritage Sites across the world. One of the pins has a popup open above it with the name of the location: “Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, protected area” and a link to “Learn more”.