app for automating sending of SMS / WhatsApp messages

Created with Claude in just one prompt - what I wanted initially, and the sequence of prompts, is at

https://github.com/hn-88/WAorSMS/blob/main/Prompt.md

and the one issue with the generated code and fix are at

https://github.com/hn-88/WAorSMS/issues/1

repeated Cloudflare "human check"

One of our content admins wrote,

For the past week (or so), each time we go to our website, and even click on a sub-page, etc, Cloudflare makes us check that we are human (not a bot). See screenshot attached. 

Do you experience this as well, or is it just me?

It is a bit annoying to do it for EVERY page. Is there a way to do it randomly, or at least once (so it knows this IP address is fine), etc.?

Another admin mentioned that 

I remember (another) website team making some changes to the Cloudflare settings following the phishing attacks and bot injection issues we faced on the (other) website. I believe the human verification check you are seeing could be related to those security measures.  

And I added,

I think one way to avoid getting the bot-check "every time" would be to keep a tab open with a page from our domain - then the session would remain open for around 10 minutes, and any other page in our domain you open within those 10 minutes will not ask you for a bot-check. If you are doing some content editing work which takes more than 10 minutes, if you navigate to another page in the open tab within 10 minutes or refresh that page within 10 minutes, you can avoid the bot-checks.

logo update for sign-in with Google screen

One of our CMS admins mentioned that the 'Sign in with Google' screen still displays the old logo, and that it needed to be replace with the new logo of the organization.

The process according to Claude was,

1. Go to Google Cloud Console → select your project.
   
   
2. Navigate to APIs & Services → OAuth consent screen (in newer UI it may be under APIs & Services → Branding).
   
   
3. Under the App information section, you'll see an App logo field — upload your logo there (square image, recommended 120x120px, max 1MB, JPG/PNG/BMP).
   
   
4. Save changes. 

I had to find the account under which the project had been created from our old emails - there is no way to easily find the email id under which the project was created from the project id which is present in the php code. But Claude says that the Super Admin for Google Workspace can give themselves the permissions in order to get this info, but I did not try it. Private URL for my reference, https://claude.ai/chat/5e521ed1-ec1a-4301-8c89-f7a21939b6e1

Claude's review of swayam plus integration local plugin for Moodle

Created a wiki page at https://github.com/hn-88/swayamplus-sso-api-integration/wiki

and populated it with Claude's comments during its review of code for this plugin which had been generated by Gemini in a single prompt.

Private URL for my reference, https://claude.ai/chat/12096022-e224-4e6b-9e01-40149a93cef7

Google Maps Street View video

Private URL for my reference - https://claude.ai/chat/859a7468-53e7-4e90-96ce-deca9ab6f363

Claude was happy to write code for me when I prompted, "If it is feasible, please write a google apps project which will work with google street view, capturing street view images between two points which the user chooses, and exporting the images as a video journey between the two places on the map similar to what is seen by a dashcam on a car. If not feasible, please suggest alternatives."

But the code requires a project with billing enabled, apparently it does not work with the demo api key provided at https://developers.google.com/maps/demo-key

So, pivoted to making screenshots of the google.com/maps page open in street-view instead - tested using SikuliX IDE 2.0.5 from https://github.com/oculix-org/SikuliX1/releases/download/v2.0.5/sikulixide-2.0.5-linux.jar

Points to note - the delay needs to be more than 5 seconds for me, the images load quite slowly. Alt+Shift+C to abort the SikuliX task.

ffmpeg -framerate 1 -i frame_%04d.png -vf "scale=trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2,minterpolate=fps=10:mi_mode=blend" -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p journey.mp4

for frame blending, but a timelapse style with more frames per second would probably be needed for longer journeys. The scaling is because the libx264 codec needs even numbered pixel counts for width and height, which may not be guaranteed when choosing a rectangle onscreen.

https://github.com/hn-88/repeated-screen-capture

debugging and testing local Moodle plugin with Claude

Private URL for my reference - https://claude.ai/chat/12096022-e224-4e6b-9e01-40149a93cef7

Used Claude to debug (add missing version.php, and many other omissions) the local plugin for swayamplus api integration generated by Gemini - github repo at https://github.com/hn-88/swayamplus-sso-api-integration. Also added some features like retry logic and test url generation. 

Some points to note:

1. The plugin uses the "Manual enrolment" enrolment method, which is enabled by default on all courses - we can see the enabled methods by going to the relevant course > Participants > Enrolled users (dropdown) > Enrolment methods. 
   
   
2. Guest access should probably be removed from the same place as above, in case enabled earlier.
   
   
3. Currently the classes/privacy/provider.php is not implemented, so the mdl_local_swayamplus_enrol table is not updated by deleting rows if / when users are deleted.
   
   
4. If the user is already present on our system, they are directly enrolled in the course.
   
   
5. If the user is new to our system, the user is dropped into the profile completion and agreement to terms and conditions workflows. Following that, the user is actually enrolled in the course automatically, but dropped into their Profile page. According to Claude, we can add a large link to "My Courses" in the Profile page as follows: 
   1. Go to any page where you can add a block sitewide — the Front Page is the standard choice. Turn editing on.
   2. Add a block → HTML.
   3. Give it a title (e.g. "Continue learning") and content — something like a large, bold link:

      <p style="text-align:center;">  
      <a href="https://ourdomain.org/my/courses.php"     
      style="font-size:1.4em; font-weight:bold; 
      display:inline-block; padding:10px 20px;">
      → Go to My Courses  </a></p>
      

   4. On that block's own settings (gear icon → Configure), under "Where this block appears" → Page contexts, set it to "Display throughout the entire site." Save.
   5. Now navigate to any user's profile page — your own is fine. The block should appear there too (since you just made it sitewide). Open that same block's settings again, and this time change "Display on page types" to "Only user profile pages." Save.

   
   

network problems were due to overheating SFP module

On two consecutive days, internet at the Planetarium went down at around 9 am, working fine before that. The network folks tried sending light down the fiber, it was fine. But the SFP module in the media converter at our end was very hot. They swapped out the media converter, and the network started working again. 

avidemux on Mac - default settings are fine

Verified that with the default settings on Avidemux 2.8.2 compiled for ARM on Mac,

MPEG4 ASP (xvid4) video and AC3 lav audio work for playout on the DVD player, 1920x1080.

For 4K - 3840x2160 - the Videotoolbox HEVC default settings are 2000 bitrate and 4000 max bitrate, which can be increased to 5000 bitrate and 8000 max bitrate to be on par with the settings in python-ffmpeg-warp.

investigating lack of referrals

The Moodle plugin in this previous post was not reporting any referrals for the month of August. Investigating, found that

1. In the new site (swayamplus.education.gov.in redirected from swayam-plus.swayam2.ac.in) login is via email sent to our email id, and my previous email registration doesn't seem to work. Maybe because I had unsubscribed from course alerts?
   
   
2. After logging in with a fresh email, found that swayamplus is no longer adding a referer id to the course URL. There is no &ref=ABC123 part in the URL.

Since they are not sending referral IDs, we cannot report what they don't send!

Moodle server error alert - due to .jpeg extension

One of our Moodle admins reported that

trying to add a content update. I keep getting this error: "servererror,moodle". What could be the problem?

I asked for the URL, and what he had been trying to do. Apparently, the issue was with adding image files with .jpeg extension in a rich-text box. When I renamed the files to .jpg and added them to the box, there was no error.