stevekemp

Agreed. I only want a tool that will convert from one format to another. My books are organized beneath ~/Books/ by author, series, and title. I don't need them "managed", I…

I have to admit I was soured on the development when I read the how security issues were handled: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027 …

I'm using it for scripting/configuration of my mail-client. Which is pretty cool.

I've been working on a console-mail client which is configured and scripted entirely in Lua: http://lumail.org/ While I cannot pretend it is significant, it is new/fresh…

Interesting article. In the past I've used the powerball simulator to get a feel for things. Buying two tickets a week for hundreds of years, and tracking profit/loss: http://jus…

I've got a mini-review, stalled, of some of the options: https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators …

One of the reasons I started lumail ( http://lumail.org/ ) was because none of the existing console clients worked for me. Specifically sup will die importing my 2013-1994 = 19 year ma…

I've been working on an extensible console-based mail-client for the past while. ( http://lumail.org/ ) I abhor the idea that clients only ever interact with messages from a singl…

We ran into similar problems on the hosting side; another surprise can be the debian-sys-maint password configure by the Debian mysql-server package.

I wrote a similar comment too. In practice you find you might want to allow "delete card" or "update card" which are complications to the simple-model.

YOu have a dedicated box that stores details and is remotely contacted through an XML-RPC/JSON-HTTP API of some sort. The API should have two methods: * Add a new card to account. * Make payment …

Honestly I never have. Because in practise it is fast enough that it just didn't come up. I'm sure that if I were to pimp the project properly then that would be a good thing to do, but hal…

So it's a reverse HTTP proxy, which can also serve files locally? That's an interesting thing, no doubt, but it doesn't feel like a web-server. I wrote a flexible reverse proxy[0] usin…

Yes I saw in the foreword/afterword in one of his recent books a credit for somebody helping him with Emacs Macros. I was disappointed we didn't know what kind of macros they were.

I'd consider it good-faith reverse engineering for the purposes of interoperability. I'd ignore it. If they want to go hard-ball they'll threaten to sue/actually sue. Until then …

The last time I used something like this it was http://httpstat.us/

> Paying $20-1000 to buy a packaged product that lets us test some of our hypotheses immediately is a nice option to have. Have you seen how much people want to sell their sites/projects for t…

I'd suggest the reverse. Because there is no existing API this cannot be in-demand. Or it would exist. Sure companies like OKCupid, Facebook, POF, etc, all want to detect porn in their user-uploa…

Agreed. If you're affected you know, if you're not you don't care. Your comment is ten minutes old, and the site is back. Not that I noticed the outage.

I think it depends. There are times in my life when I've wanted a tool and looked for existing products, contributed a few patches and been happy. Then there are other times when there was nothi…

This evening I made a fresh release of my new console mail client, which is entirely scriptable through lua: http://lumail.org/ Recently it has become my full-time mail-client, which …

> If you use C arrays and char*s in C++, that's your problem Sadly it's not that cut and dried. I've written a mail-client in C++, with an embedded Lua intepreter for the scripting.…

Ditto. Interestingly though now that I'm old (37) I can no longer hear bats, I certainly could when I was in my mid-twenties. So the squeal of some electronics is high-pitched, but not as high-pi…

Always nice to see another fan, and a local one at that!

Regarding Plesk/CPanel you might consider looking at the open-source project we released: http://symbiosis.bytemark.co.uk/ As you can see it is thoroughly documented and allows y…

My new email client is heavily scriptable via Lua: http://lumail.org/examples/

And now I'll say if you like Perl then there's a simple CFEngine-lite-like project I started called Slaughter: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/guide/…

As a photographer giving away RAWs is just not something I'd ever do. No scam involved. Sure it sounds like this particular photographer is trying to get more money for prints, but that's b…

Repair steam-engines, cut wood into tables, benches, and shelves. Also, despite many many years of my life spent practicing I can still cut my head shaving!