I’ve built a proof of concept in some hacked together python code to automatically add movies to my netflix queue when I send twitter messages to @flixbot.
For example this tweet:
Gets Blade into my queue. Awesome.
I started building this out into a full fledged service so other people can use it as well. Of course I’m [...]
Posted in Code, Technical, python, snippet, utility on Jan 21st, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve been consolidating my music collection and found that there were lots of duplicate files.
Most of the dupes were named something like “Happy Birthday 1.mp3″ and “Happy Birthday.mp3″ would exist in the same directory. I’m not sure which program added these dupes, but removing 2500 or so of em by hand would not be [...]
Posted in Code, Technical, audio, m4a, mp3, python, snippet, utility on Jun 6th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve been moving a bunch of my brothers music out of iTunes for him so he can use it with portable players besides iPod. Unfortunately he encoded a lot of his cd’s in .m4a format. I found a decent utility for converting to mp3 (and other formats) http://www.bonkenc.org/
Unfortunately when you point Bonk at a directory [...]
Posted in firefox, utility on Apr 26th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been getting intermittent slowdowns and occasional lockups of my firefox browser. I suspect it’s from JS heavy pages/applications leaking memory somewhere but I wasn’t sure which pages to blame, and didn’t want to spend alot of time investigating.
Typically I have 3 different browser windows open each with their own batch of tabs:
Personal browser including [...]