Gary BartosChicken Dance Hands and The First Name Game: Norman Doors of CommunicationsDoors that have labels explaining whether to push and/or pull are everywhere. Norman doors! Once you know what a Norman door is, you can’t…6 min read·Apr 17, 2024----
Gary BartosExcel: Filter by Text Length to Delete Empty Rows that aren’t BlanksIf you want to delete blank rows from large Excel files, but Excel’s Data | Auto Filter won’t identify empty-looking rows as Blank, then…2 min read·Mar 17, 2024----
Gary BartosTextRank in Swift to swiftly test extractive summarizationTextRank is an algorithm for extractive summarization of text. This short post is meant for folks who want to start tinkering with TextRank…4 min read·Mar 2, 2024----
Gary BartosThe Chatbot Acrapolypse is Already Here!I’m on hold waiting for customer service as I write this.2 min read·Jan 16, 2024----
Gary BartosGoogle Slides: big bullets to (nic) tiny bulletsBy default, the bullet points in Google Slides are ginormous.2 min read·Nov 10, 2023----
Gary BartosAccessibility of Tabletop Games — Part 1Earlier this year Stonemaier Games published Vision-Friendly Card Sets for their award-winning game Wingspan. My company contributed…5 min read·Sep 29, 2023----
Gary BartosEchobatix 1.0 for iOS (dev story 1.0.1)Echobatix, my company’s app, is available in the App Store as of today. Hurray!2 min read·May 26, 2023----
Gary BartosA word insertion hack to fix parts of speech assigned to short strings in SwiftApple’s NaturalLanguage library may not assign parts of speech accurately for strings of just two or three words. But that’s…6 min read·Feb 19, 2023----
Gary BartosSwift String extensions tokenize() and titleCase()If you’re working with String variables in Swift, and especially if you’re working with Natural Language Processing (NLP) using the Natural…4 min read·Feb 4, 2023----
Gary BartosNLP Stop Words as a Swift Array (or set)If you’re doing work in Natural Language Processing (NLP), then you’ve probably come across the concept of stop words. Those are common…4 min read·Jan 30, 2023----