Jan
08
2011
Melissa bought me a kindle for my birthday, and I’ve been loving reading on it. There are a few pain points for me — the lack of user customizable screensavers (fixed with a hack), poor collection management and poor instapaper integration. I’ve worked on solutions to each of those — I’ve made a few of my own screensavers, written a python script to do bulk collection management from the desktop (except you need to reboot every time you modify collections.json) and written a script to bundle collections of webpages or rss feeds into a book (that won’t be overwritten by weekly periodical pushes).
The first bit of code I’ve cleaned up is the ebook maker, hosted at https://github.com/blackmad/Ebook-Maker based on code from http://code.google.com/p/python-epub-builder/
Using it (and some one-off python hacking), I made books out of each of the longform best-of-2010 categories
Feb
02
2010
Texas
Jan
25
2010
Stolichnaya Bakery in West Hollywood
The Inside Scoop
They have hot dogs!
Jan
08
2009
This isn’t a great check-in, gohome has dotfiles and binary files checked in, and betterbookmarks needs the tagsoup jar but I’ll fix that tomorrow when I’m not completely exhausted.
http://gohome.googlecode.com
http://betterbookmarks.googlecode.com
Also, none of the source is commented or logical, planning to clean it up this weekend.
