Monday, June 27, 2016

This required my wrapper of Webservice::Instagram. It doesn't. http://ift.tt/295RVYE...

This required my wrapper of Webservice::Instagram. It doesn't.

http://ift.tt/28YQJmw Found on GitHub.

Mostly, it's there to handle OAuth fun and keep keys out of the program.

If you have questions, or want me to make this into a full-fledged GitHub repo, tell me in the comments or at @jacobydave on Twitter.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Personal Programming Plans: Instagram2Background I have this code which uses WebService::Instagram to...

Personal Programming Plans: Instagram2Background
I have this code which uses WebService::Instagram to grab my most recent picture from Instagram and set it as background image on my Ubuntu machines. I put it in my crontab and it just works. #!/usr/bin/env perl

use feature qw'say' ;
use strict ;
use warni...

I dislike the Star Trek mission statement changing from "where no man has gone before" to "where no ...

I dislike the Star Trek mission statement changing from "where no man has gone before" to "where no one has gone before." It was correct; now, it is incorrect. There are sentient species where they are going: so many have gone there before, but none of our species has.

FWIW. 

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Quantified Self: For What? This is my daily step count since I first got a FitBit in 2012, in handy ...

Quantified Self: For What?
This is my daily step count since I first got a FitBit in 2012, in handy heatmap form. It shows that 2014 was a pretty active year. It shows that this year, I've really fallen off the game. It shows that the main purpose of this process for me, of learning ...

Monday, June 6, 2016

My Reason to hate Python might be GONE! Let me show you some code. #!/usr/bin/env python mylist = [...

My Reason to hate Python might be GONE!
Let me show you some code. #!/usr/bin/env python

mylist = [0,1,2,3]

for n in mylist:
for m in mylist:
print m,n
print m,n
print n Looks pretty normal, right? Just a loop, right? Just a loop within a loop. Yes it is, but if you look closer, you'll...