Here are some bits of code I've released recently:

UK mountain weather forecast aggregator

The Mountain Weather Information Service do an excellent job, providing weather forecasts for all the mountain areas in the UK - most weather forecast sites only give forecasts for inhabited areas, and the weather at sea level often differs in interesting ( Read more... )

In The Art of Unix Programming, Eric Raymond lists among his basics of the Unix philosophy the "Rule of Generation":14. Rule of Generation: Avoid hand-hacking; write programs to write programs when you can.
He goes into this idea in more detail in chapter 9 of the same book.

I used to believe this was a good idea, and in many situations (here's a ( Read more... )

( Cut for geekiness )