Archive

2023

• Revitalizing stalled open source projects
• Test suite performance: Build wheels to go faster
• dotbot-firefox 1.1.0
• pelican-precompress 2.2.0
• pelican-granular-signals 1.1.0

2022

• Enabling vigilant mode on GitHub
• Announcing dotbot-firefox
• Fixing a missing Python REPL history
• Managing your git config using dotbot
• listparser 0.19
• pelican-granular-signals 1.0.1
• pelican-precompress 2.1.1

2021

• Announcing pelican-granular-signals
• pelican-precompress 2.1.0
• Keep code style out of code reviews

2020

• Monkeypatching: Retrieving data from the parent scope
• Monkeypatching: The basics
• pelican_precompress 1.1.1
• Design for "and" and "or"
• Why you should document your test assertions
• Sitemap now included!
• JSON output from CLI commands
• Now available: my oldest posts!
• Friends with robots
• Redirecting www
• Announcing pelican_precompress
• Qotom Q350G4Y: My new router
• Content attribution
• Enabling Brotli compression

2019

• Self-documenting code
• Handling automatic favicon requests
• CSS minification and cache busting
• TLSv1.3 and caching
• Upgrading the site's HTTPS and TLS
• Moving, part 9

2015

• Tera Term subroutines
• listparser 0.18
• feedparser 5.2.0
• Twelve days later
• Moving, part 8
• Moving, part 7
• Moving, part 6
• Moving, part 5
• Moving, part 4
• Moving, part 3
• Moving, part 2
• Moving, part 1
• The state of feedparser

2014

• In the beginning
• Caller ID blocking options
• The Debris Cathedral
• A change of scenery
• Raspberry Pi benchmarks

2013

• Raspberry Pi server

2012

• Date parsing
• listparser 0.17 - "Territory expansion"
• Announcing feedparser 5.1.3
• Getting back into it (part 6)
• Getting back into it (part 5)
• Getting back into it (part 4)
• Getting back into it (part 3)
• Getting back into it (part 2)
• Getting back into it (part 1)
• And now I look around
• Leveling up my tech
• Maintaining my humanity
• Announcing feedparser 5.1.2
• Customizing websites using a scalpel
• listparser now has a unified codebase
• Announcing feedparser 5.1.1
• A case for forgetting
• Book burning
• How old am I?
• Fixing more things
• Fixed it!
• pdb post-mortem debugging
• YouTube for the XBox 360
• Gifts and surprises

2011

• listparser 0.16 - "Refresh"
• Announcing feedparser 5.1
• Photo managers
• My opinion of Hulu Plus
• Revisiting Windows
• Predictions and facts
• It's the truth
• Announcing feedparser 5.0.1
• Announcing feedparser 5.0
• The problem with Mercurial
• Improving feedparser's unit tests
• Supporting a timeout in feedparser

2010

• Goodbye, Liferea
• Extending feedparser using dynamic inheritance
• Bash' extglob option
• A git-svn reminder
• Feedparser porting status, Thanksgiving edition
• Feedparser porting status
• Porting feedparser to Python 3
• Don't just trust: backup your data
• listparser v0.15 - "A special day"
• listparser v0.14 - "A good year"
• True bookmarking software?
• LiveJournal FOAF file support
• Licensing
• urlnorm has a purpose!
• Link Widgets for Firefox
• Normalizing URLs
• Posting comments from within a feed reader
• On being held hostage
• Migrating back to Wordpress
• listparser v0.13 - "Revelations"
• Fixing listparser's unit tests
• listparser v0.12 - "Safety net"

2009

• listparser v0.11 - "Floodgates"
• listparser v0.10 - "Internet-ready"
• Changes to rawdog-rss
• Easy subscriptions and filtering
• Patching rawdog's rss.py plugin
• listparser 0.9 - "Celery wolves"
• Replacing magical code
• Regarding reboots
• listparser v0.8 - "Three day weekend"
• listparser v0.7 - "The Codex"
• Writing documentation
• listparser v0.6 - "Hatchet Hotel"
• listparser v0.5 - "Going green"
• Penny Arcade powered by Django
• Bash programmable completion
• Commanding bash
• listparser v0.4 - "07/18,29"
• Quantifying unit test coverage
• listparser v0.3 - "...and Recursion for all."
• Claims in subscription lists
• Saved by a squid
• listparser v0.2 - "Leveling up"
• Normalizing years
• Subscribing to a subscription list...
• listparser 0.1 - "Achievement unlocked"
• No cookie for you!
• Look ma, no BeautifulSoup!
• listparser on Freshmeat
• Announcing listparser
• listparser.py
• Finding my voice
• On CPU specialization
• Subclassing Python types

2008

• Quantum of Solace (2008)
• Tracking feeds and comments
• Pidgin-encryption key
• FireGPG and blogging
• Wordpress.com and comment feeds
• Yahoo for search
• Revisiting comment scraping
• Scraping LiveJournal comments
• while read i
• Python's time module
• Cherokee 0.6.0 and Django
• Announcing Tricycle
• Unit testing
• Authorship and extensibility
• Renquist and distutils
• Capturing comments
• Revisiting "uninteresting" statistics

2007

• "Uninteresting" statistics
• Licensing Renquist
• Life with GnuCash
• Feed lists
• Quantifying stuff and things
• Renquist
• Unable to sleep
• Comic duplication
• Northwestern and OpenID
• Cell phone video formats
• A header mockup
• Learning Dvorak
• Address booking
• Watermarked images
• My first cell phone
• Spam Karma 2
• My Akismet analysis
• Django makes learning fun!
• Dealing with hotlinking
• Stats are helpful around here
• Of presidents and internets
• Goodbye, hive mind
• Goodbye, Liferea
• Good News - 1991
• What I Wish - 1991
• SSH over FTP and HTTP
• A rule to live by
• Header design
• A plan for copyrighting
• A new avatar
• Keeping track of comments
• Adobe Flash and online audio
• Reporting vulnerabilities to Northwestern
• I love Webmail.us!
• 15 years and counting, baby!
• Playing the Twitter game
• Firefox! Stop locking things down!

2006

• Well themed, well done
• The death of Amtrak
• One week in December
• Not anymore, I don't
• Startling timing on my part
• Pavatar documentation
• Decentralizing my visual identity
• GPS metadata in photos
• Baobab hooks me up
• Wishy-washy tool selection
• I want a people manager! Now!
• After reading the specs
• The shift, unexpected
• Simulating Conversation in MySQL
• Facebook backlash
• IM And Me: A History
• FOAFing it up
• More MySpace stuff
• Beating MySpace into submission
• Towards better MySpace feeds
• The MySpace Cross-poster
• MySpace progress
• Cross-posting to Myspace
• Bundling information together
• Internationalization of the installer
• The tragedy of Apple's DRM
• Sabrosus gettext support - beta 1
• Gettext support in Sa.bros.us
• I'm a Sabrosus developer!
• A shift in bookmarking
• Another manufacturer ends support

2005

• Alarm clocks have bugs?!
• My job and my future
• Like Doublemint gum
• Gotta please the people
• More stuff what ain't easy
• Conversions ain't easy
• Computer don't got brains
• Of elephants and rabbits
• Feeds save me time
• The Xanga Archiver
• Free Culture
• A Xanga archiver
• Soon, I hope
• Google found me
• I guess it's useful
• Presentation is everything
• Kurt does Xanga
• Picasa
• I hate script kiddies!
• iTunes Store for Linux
• I got it! I got it!
• Coolness to come
• Participation, however small
• Stunning
• Upgrades for sure!
• A dizzying array of vulnerabilities
• Drivel and Liferea

2004

• Fixed it, if you noticed
• Stupid spammers
• Adblocking about.com
• More Halo 2 thoughts
• The Tuesday foretold from of old
• A couple of lynch pins
• Like pirating music, only encrypted
• On the complete other hand...
• So that's it, I guess.
• Jump ship NOW
• Best. Conversation. EVER.
• Yahoo!'s shenanigans
• Ain't gonna take no sass
• The ol' tap-a-roo