So, I wrote a custom plugin called 'ocomments' that uses an SQLAlchemy- based database API to assign cookies to users who make comments. That way I can control who has automatic posting access (anyone who posts a sensible message, basically) and who doesn't. I can also toggle comment visibility on …
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A simple program to get pinged whenever you get new e-mail:
#! /usr/bin/env python import sys, email from pyxmpp.jid import JID from pyxmpp.jabber.simple import send_message inp = sys.stdin.read() message = email.message_from_string(inp) jid = 'someid@xmpp.us' password, recpt = 'XXXXX', 'otherid@xmpp.us' jid = JID(jid …read more
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After learning from Jeff Rush that no one had volunteered (yet) to organize a panel on Web technologies, I stepped up to the plate. I've also submitted a talk proposal about twill/scotch/figleaf and (with Grig) I'm going to submit a proposal for a testing tutorial, so attendees may …
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I sent this e-mail to a local friend who lost his mind a few years back and started voting Republican. His response suggests that there's a platform some Dems could maybe consider running on...
If the Dems want to make me their electoral love slave: once they get power, toss …read more
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Here's some pointlessly complex systems administration stuff.
I spent an hour or two today debugging my spam filtering setup. Most of my e-mail goes through Caltech, which does spam tagging nicely, but recently there's been a substantial increase in e-mail coming through various hosted domains. This bypasses Caltech's tagging, so …
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