Weather Bots
This has been me off and on the past couple of days: Jeremy Pope (jpope)’s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-12 10:13:33 CDT – micro.jpope.orgPlaying with bash and the wunderground api. via Jpope My Matrix bots...
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To continue my recent work with the Wunderground api, I have now hacked together a new StatusNet bot plugin. With this plugin, you can ask the bot for the current weather conditions with just the word...
View ArticleWunderbot Update
This is a quick update to announce that my Wunderground bot plugin for StatusNet has gotten a couple of new features since it’s initial release. The first one is that if a US zip code or Canadian...
View ArticleBashScriptVille
I have had my matrix StatusNet instance up for quite some time. This instance consists of six accounts that mostly spit out random notices that are pulled via various bash scripts. I decided it was...
View ArticleBashScriptVille Part II
I’ve now added a new pumpio (and statusnet) bot that pulls comics from XKCD. Why? Why the hell not? Don’t we all love XKCD? The “bots” are located at XKCD@pump.jpope.org and xkcd@sn.jpope.org if you...
View ArticleRegions
I recently tried playing a DVD on my somewhat new laptop to no avail. Was the first time since I got this laptop that I even tried. Hell, the shitdows8 install that was on here when I bought the laptop...
View ArticleScript for mysql backups
Here is my quick mysql backup script that I have used for a couple of years. Posting it here for reference sake... #!/bin/bash ## if run daily (say, via cron) you will end up with a tar file that...
View ArticleNow with Bitmessage
I'm (just now) checking out bitmessage. Seems pretty cool and really damn easy to use. As usual when installing new things, I consulted the Arch wiki first and installed the pybitmessage-git package...
View ArticleSo does everyone else
I ran to the grocery store after work to grab a couple of things. My wife wanted a bag of ice so, that was on the list. I get the few items that I needed and paid for my stuff, ice included. Once I got...
View ArticleStartSSL SHA256 Certs
This is mostly a FYI (and for myself to remember) post. If you use StartSSL to provide your certs (the free certs, class1), you may want (at least eventually) to update your StartSSL intermediate certs...
View ArticleI rock
A couple of nights ago, after having a couple of beers, I found myself messing around on namecheap.com. I came across a domain that I just had to get. "Damn you namecheap." As I didn't have a plan for...
View ArticleFastmail Roundcube connection settings
Years ago, when I first started using Fastmail for my email provider, I had set up Roundcube to access the account. At the time, I had used Postfix for the actual connection. Sometime between then and...
View ArticleDiaspora* Too many open files
For a little while, I have occasionally noticed that my pod will not send emails out when it's supposed to. If I navigated to the Sidekiq monitor in the admin area, and reprocessed all of the Dead jobs...
View ArticlePosting to Diaspora* via API
In the land if Diaspora*, the news of the work being done on the API yesterday was huge. The lack of a proper API has been a thorn in the side of many people. But, it's finally happening, the API is on...
View ArticlePodwrapper v1.5.1 (...errr make that v1.5.2)
EDIT: I found a bug and fixed it with v1.5.2, the links below have been changed to point to the new version. I released v1.5.1 v1.5.2 of my podwrapper script and until the WIP D* API is further along,...
View ArticlePlugging the pumps - BashScriptVille Part III
Crossposted from my soon-not-to-be-existing pump: link I think the time has just about come for me to shut my personal pump down (io.jpope.org). I'll likely migrate back to my pump.jpope.org account...
View ArticleCork
The pumps have been plugged. If you were a user of pump.jpope.org and you'd like to have your data, let me know. I have all the data in an archive but, will be sending it to /dev/null in the near...
View ArticleNight Sweats - Midland Theater - KC, MO
Still feeling the Night Sweats show from last night. Think it's safe to say, Son of a Bitch, give me a hangover! But hey, I can't complain really, when you have backstage access, and access to the...
View Articlemkgif
Earlier today, I posted this post: Listening to Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells currently. The gif in that post I created from a video taken with my phone using ffmpeg and I really wasn't happy with the...
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