Glazy Plugins for the Lazy and Impatient
Random bits of collected insanity
Some JavaScript plugins (bookmarklets) to tickle your fancy and automate/augment a few bits on glazy.org
Here’s a bunch of JavaScript bookmarklets that I’ve made to help me use glazy more effectively and efficiently (or just to my liking ;-) ).
Just drag into your bookmarks bar, and click when appropriate…
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
Glazy may update it’s code and break these scripts…
…and you can inadvertently run the scripts on the wrong recipes.
They’re helpful but not infallible (all I can say is that I haven’t had any issues with them… yet)
But if you find any of it useful, enjoy… and make sure you think of me every time you use it (and spread some credit… or get me some money, haha).
FYI: Glazy is AMAZING! These are just my own grumpy mutterings…
WHY do I have to set cone 6, neutral/oxidation, blah blah blah on EACH recipe INDIVIDUALLY?!?
So this drove me NUTS… click this, and you can change the details on all selected recipes at once… and you can even bulk prepend, append, and remove descriptions, … at the same time! (well… one after the other actually… as otherwise it crashes ;-) ).
WARNING: use wisely… it will change ALL of them as you specified (but will leave unchanged if you say so).
Saving a blend (or any batchstorm of new recipes)… oh SO many names to update and buttons to click!!!
Imagine you’ve made a blend and now have to rename and save 15 recipes(!!!)… this little tool finds the unsaved recipes currently on the page and lets you save them together. Prepend a name (recommended for a blend), append some text, or leave the field blank to keep their names exactly as they are. You’ll get a preview and a clear confirmation before anything is saved, followed by progress and a summary of how it went.
How much do you love uploading your blend results... one at a time!!!
For when the test tiles are lined up, the photos are piling up, and your future self would quite like to know which glaze is which.
Triaxial finds an existing blend and lets you assign and upload photos to its recipes. Coaxial starts with a base recipe: choose your additions, create the blend recipes, and add photos when you have them. No photos yet? You can create the coaxial recipes first. The tool can also add the set to a new or existing collection, suggest a name you can edit, and optionally make the blend recipes public. Because apparently glazes need filing too.
To install it, drag this button to your bookmarks bar:
Then sign in to Glazy, open any page on glazy.org, and click the bookmark. Choose your blend mode, check the cone and atmosphere before uploading, and let the little robot do the repetitive clicking. You stay in charge of which photos and recipes go where; it will not ask for your password or an API token.
A little one just for when I mix up a batch…
I like it when I can check added materials off my recipe batch on glazy… and for personal (and educational) considerations, I also like to reorder my recipes to start from anything that may help keep the glaze in suspension, and then drop in the rest… and possibly leave a few ingredients for last if they are more likely to hardpan (think Neph Sy, Frits, silica, etc.)… Open it in a focused view, or switch back to the Glazy page whenever you like. Your checkmarks stay with you between views.
Dear lord, I ain't got none of that in my pile of glaze materials...
For when a gorgeous glaze calls for six things you don’t own and a feldspar last seen in 1987. Choose the materials actually in your cupboard, and let the Substitution Tool find practical alternatives. Compare the chemistry, weigh up the compromises, and save a private copy to Glazy. Slightly less ingredient envy. Considerably less arithmetic.
To install it, drag this button to your bookmarks bar:
Just open a recipe on Glazy (while signed in) and click your new bookmark. Set up your cupboard, then choose Find a recipe in my cupboard. (This button belongs in your bookmarks bar; it runs on Glazy, not on this page)
Starting your cupboard? Download Ronald’s BOTPOTS Starter Kit cupboard (available at BotPots in Auckland, NZ), then choose Import in the tool. If the file opens in your browser, save it first.
Created from the slight insanity of Ronald Boersen · v0.21.1 Beta
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Ronald’s Wet Glaze Calculator
This one is just an easy and useful thing... Estimate the dry glaze in your bucket, adjust your water/Specific Gravity (SG), or weigh out additions.
Open it on Glazy to load the recipe you’re viewing.
And also some stuff for printing…
Now this is just getting petty… but I like my UMF in colour, a bigger photo of the test tile, a big title, and bigger text (I’m getting old). One recipe per page helps me and my students avoid mixing up multiple recipes—even if it wastes paper!!!
Ronald’s Glazy Print Tools combines my print adjustments and practical mixing order. Save your own Glazy print settings once, and they’ll load next time you open the tool. Batch amount stays specific to the job. You can also fit complete recipes together where possible, or restore the page afterwards.