Category: Python
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Retweeting in Python
My friend Eliot has been running a retweet bot named @SanMo for some time that is designed to serve Twitter users in the Santa Monica, California area by allowing them to broadcast tweets to other Santa Monica-area users without explicitly friending them. He wrote up the full details of the service and the script behind…
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Tracking the top Diggers
For the past 15 months, I’ve been maintaining a list of the top 100 (and top 1000) Digg users. As Digg has become less and less relevant to my interests (and the interests of the greater tech community), I’ve decided to stop updating these lists. However, I have chosen to provide the tools I have…
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What’s old is new again
A few weeks ago, I started a little side project, and I decided to write it in Python with the Django framework based on all of the good things I’ve heard about it. I may never go back to PHP. It’s like this: imagine you’ve been driving the same 1987 Dodge Dynasty for the last…