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My current programming project is a custom made lifestream. It's fun!

Think there's privacy online? Here are a few of the public feeds that track me.  Since they're there already, I'm going to aggregate them into one place.  It'll be like a digital diary that writes itself.

# yaml preferences for lifestream ( Read more... )

The RSS specification allows you to have an element in the header of your RSS feed.  A long time ago, if you used Wordpress, you'd have to edit the wp-rss.php file and be very careful when you upgraded to new releases, or your change could be lost.

But if you use a modern version of Wordpress, you should take advantage of the do_action(' ( Read more... )

Update 12/2009: Mentions and retweets are excluded from the friends_timeline.rss.   Nowadays, it's better to join the mentions.rss feed with the home_timeline.rss.

Remember how angry I was at twitter? They turned off open friends feeds subscription since the WWDC?

It turns out the solution I needed was a one-liner cron job.

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I've ported some of the unofficial Plurk API in Python at Google Code.

There were already a couple Python scripts out there that connect to Plurk, but nothing that constituted anything like an API like Ryan Lim's PHP version.

It's only a partial port, and it's not documented yet. But it's pretty easy to understand and it's usable. If you use it, ( Read more... )

I use Foxmarks to keep different computers' bookmarks sync'ed to each other. I have one set of bookmarks for use on home computers, and another set for use at work computers. (I also use delicious for low usage bookmarks I know I want available everywhere.)

With Foxmarks, you can sync your bookmarks to their servers, or you can sync to your own ( Read more... )

I was doing some general cleanup around the blog. (Considering widgetizing the sidebar...) I re-validated the XHTML, and some errors came up. The following code was inserted into the content of a post. (Which is contained inside a MySQL item.)

CD and DVD films available for download at download movies site, cheap prices and fast downloading.

The ( Read more... )

How hard do I rock?  Let me give you an example.

Date:  The near future.

Scene: David's blog, a jewel of php code, with a few custom modifications to the WordPress framework.  Does anybody else have an element in their in their feed-rss.php family?  Doubtful.  Oh, how about user friendly "there's more content this way" ellipses in their ( Read more... )

Courtesy of our local HP printers and this awesome tip, I present today's python script:

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Consider:

>>> def foo(a): a = 2
...
>>> x = 1
>>> foo(x)
>>> x
1

And:

>>> def bar(b): b.append(2)
...
>>> y = []
>>> bar(y)
>>> y
[2]

Alex Martelli dismisses newbie "by value or by reference" questions with the following:

The terminology problem may be due to the fact that, in python, the
value of a name is a reference to an object. So, you ( Read more... )