During the day I like to listen to various audio streams so I find myself switching back and forth between music and news.  Wouldn’t it be nice if you could play streams for a given amount of time?  I couldn’t find anything that did it automatically so I wrote this quick Python program to do [...]

I like to tell stories about poorly written code.  As a programmer you come across it all the time, and good programmers work really hard to make sure everything they write is both clean and as free from bugs as you can make it.  There is a reason, though, that we spend so much time [...]

There’s a project that I’ve been helping out on lately.  Headed up by Meethune and Schick. Check it out here:   https://rssnewzbin.mercymachines.mine.nu It’s a Python program for Linux/BSD that uses saved Newzbin searches and Hellanzb to automatically download new releases based on the search criteria.