Author: X. Y. Zeng

When the COVID-19 shutdowns started occurring, I predicted layoffs coming and if you want peace, prepare for war. That made me create helpwithcovid19.ca to organize all the benefits available for people affected by COVID-19. In late March, I remember both the federal and provincial governments in Canada announced new benefits almost daily. There wasn’t a […]

Beds are hard to get out of it when you’re settled in, but lights don’t turn themselves off. In the past, I could switch the lights off in my bed using poles to turn off the lights. But not after moving to my new apartment. There are commercial solutions to this issue. You can change […]

Does showering with the washroom door open increase room humidity? Does closing the blinds help significantly in retaining heat? I wanted to know how my actions affected my apartment’s temperature. But there was no commercial solution that I know of. Luckily, a Raspberry Pi, DHT22 temperature and humidity sensor and some programming knowledge helped. Written […]

Eager to create a website and wanting to solve a perennial problem, I created howtopronouncemyname.com. With a goal to make people laugh and maybe learn how to pronounce my name, I kept an eye to having a diverse cast of people pronouncing my name and included a video with two people teaching and learning. The […]

My client had a challenge. They did not have professional graphics creation tools nor were there specialists in that domain. Using simple HTML and CSS, I created a Facebook banner generator for their page. They could sync with Google Sheets or enter their course dates in a pop-up prompt. This has been the default method […]

Over the course of a year, I developed a landing page to support Canadian Pro Drivers’ Facebook and Google paid ad campaigns. CPD offers courses to help people become driving instructors. The page included a quiz where people could find out if they qualified to get an instructor’s licence. The website also included videos filmed […]