Code Shop

I like writing in Vim! It is one of those things that I am so used to
that every other text editor feels unnatural and going against the
grain. So I thought I'd write a small plugin to post to Posterous. Add
the following code to your .vimrc. Also make sure you have python
enabled in vim as well as have markdown2 for python installed.

The following need to be changed: blog_email, blog_password, and
site_id. site_id can be grabbed by running the following on the
terminal:

 
curl -u my@email.com:mYpA$$W0RD http://posterous.com/api/getsites 

Substitute the email and password. You will get a list of your blogs
so choose the id of the blog you want to post to.

The format of the text should be as follows: the first line is the
title and the proceeding lines are the body:

 
This is the title of the post 
 
This is the body of the post. 

This code is pretty straightforward and sparse because I am using this
to post code snippets to a private blog. Check out the Posterous API to add more
options and whatnot. Also take this as a start and expand upon it.

I'm learning Clojure and needed a simple http client. Here is the one
I have written using the java libraries.

 
(import '(java.net URL HttpURLConnection) 
 '(java.io InputStreamReader BufferedReader)) 
 
(defn http-client-get-content [reader content] 
 (let [line (.readLine reader)] 
 (if (nil? line) 
 content 
 (recur reader (str content "\n" line))))) 
 
(defn http-client-get [url] 
 (let [connection (.openConnection (URL. url))] 
 (doto connection 
 (.setRequestMethod "GET") 
 (.setDoOutput true) 
 (.setReadTimeout 10000) 
 (.connect)) 
 (http-client-get-content (BufferedReader. (InputStreamReader. 
(.getInputStream connection))) ""))) 

Lately, I've been trying to compile Chromium on my desktop and I had been constantly getting an error associated with linking:

collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed]

After Googling around apparently the problem had to do with running out of swap space which causes the linking to fail. Chromium needs almost 700mb more memory to link than I was providing so it was failing. Interestingly, Linux has a really clean solution to increase the swap space.

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=1048576
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

These three commands will create an empty file of 1gb, make that a swap file, and turn it on to be used.

 

There is one thing I have to admit Posterous has taught me and that is that email can be a powerful medium. I spend a lot of time in email even if I don't realize it and usually always have my Gmail window open.

This is how you load an Image from the local application directory on the iPhone.

 

 
 [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Polareye" ofType:@"jpg" inDirectory:@""]]; 

When I last wrote about my NCurses Twitter client Twitcurses I just sort of glaced over it. So here is a bit more detailed usage of the app. It basically looks something like this.


The client refreshes after a set amount of time as set in the config file. I have set the default to 2 minutes which can be reset to whatever you please. But note there is a limit of 140 requests an hour (hey I just got why they limit it to 140...). To refresh your tweets press a capital R.

Sending a tweet is as easy as pressing a cap T. Which should pop up a message requesting you for a tweet.



If you want to cancel just enter a blank line.

Also the cool thing I added is using the Mac 'say' command to speak your new Tweets from the last time you refreshed. So basically whenever it refreshes it speaks any new tweets that have been created after the last time you refreshed. (This means it won't speak the first time you load the app since that will result in it speaking all of the tweets). I will add a mute feature promptly for the time when you don't want it to speak, also a config option for this would be useful.

Here is yet another piece of code that I am making open source. It is called iPolarized. I am not done with it, but thought I'd make it open source in the early process. The major functionality that of making the picture a polaroid is done, but all the stuff related to making the app intuitive is sort of missing, plus there are a few bugs in there I need to work out.

Here are some example photos:

Anyways, enjoy the code here I am releasing it under GPL3. And for this project please donate if you find this code useful. I really need money!

With all the Twitter based programs that are out there I thought I'd add my contribution to that mix. It's a simple ncurses based twitter client. It still needs a bit of work, but it's in a dogfooding stage. Download the code here.

I dislike GUI tools and posting to Flickr usually seems like a chore more than as an enjoyable means of posting new pictures. With that in mind I have written this command line Flickr uploader. It will be a constant work in progress where I will add features as I need to use them. So with that in mind download it from here.

In a sign of being awesome Posterous now lets you post Github Gists which are automatically converted into the embed code. Basically, what you need to do is paste the link to the gist in question and it is automatically translated into the embed code.