John Dalesandro

Projects

WordPress Plugins

Analytical Spam Filter

Block WordPress comment spam, trackback spam, and pingback spam through intelligent analytics instead of interactive challenge response tests.

Head Trimmer

Customizable plugin to selectively remove WordPress version information, feeds, shortlinks, xmlrpc, emoji support and other miscellaneous extras from the HEAD element.

Micro Contact Form

Contact form plugin requiring only basic data entry (message subject, message content, from name, and return e-mail address) to send a brief message to the blog administrator's e-mail address.

Fun & Games

Quartiles Solver

Generate possible solutions to the Apple News+ Quartiles game by comparing all 1- to 4-tile combinations against a large word list.

Wordle Solver

Find possible solutions to The New York Times Wordle game by searching a list of known 5-letter words.

Utilities

Remove / Replace Line Breaks

Remove or replace (with alternate characters) all carriage returns and line feeds found in a text column. Utility can also replace other special characters.

Treasury Bill Yield Calculator

Calculate the days until maturity, discount rate, return, yield, and coupon equivalent yield (short-dated or long-dated) for United States Treasury bills.