waxpoetyk 0.1 released 1

Posted by alex on June 19, 2003

After some more hacking, I am now releasing version 0.1 of waxpoetyk, codenamed “World Class Fad”.
There’s a lot of debug info printed out on the console, the UI isn’t quite finished, but it basically does what it is supposed to do.
You can grab the tarball here.
Use the code at your own risk, I am not responsible if it eats your hard drive, makes your hair fall out or hides weapons of mass destruction in your closet.

Facelift

Posted by alex on June 17, 2003

For the moment, I went back to the default MT design, because, let’s face it, it looks much better than the old white design. And it’s a good starting point for yet another redesign.

No-Frills Aggregation? 4

Posted by alex on June 15, 2003

I have looked at quite a few RSS aggregators and most of them have more features than you can shake a stick at.
At the moment I am using Amphetadesk, but I am looking for something really simple, that just

  • runs on a server, so I can read my feeds from anywhere
  • keeps a list of all the feeds I read
  • checks the feeds regularly, while being net-friendly (conditional GET, etc.)
  • shows me a list of all the recent entries that I haven’t seen before. Just a link and a title

Because even though I use an aggregator, I still visit every article and just use Amphetadesk as a glorified bookmark manager.

Does such a beast already exist?

WaXPoetYk 1

Posted by alex on June 14, 2003

This is what I have been hacking on lately:
waxpoetyk.png
A new client for MovableType, written in Python using the wxPython library (which explains the atrocious spelling of the name).
It’s far from finished, but it can already post to a blog. But before I publish it, I want to get the preview functionality going and give it all the functionality of the “Post to MT Weblog” bookmarklet (allowing comments, allowing trackbacks, text formatting).

So much for Trepia 1

Posted by alex on June 04, 2003

So I read about Trepia today, and it sounded pretty interesting. So I actually booted my dusty Windows partition, downloaded the installer, installed the thing and tried to register.
That is where I hit a major road block. The stupid thing just stalls, showing a frozen progress bar and the words “Registering”.
But maybe I can still find people in my neighborhood this way, by listening for screams of frustration… :-)