Mekk's programming notes http://blog.mekk.waw.pl Private blog by Marcin Kasperski. Notes about Linux, programming and internet chess. en Fri, 27 May 2022 12:29:26 GMT Blogofile hourly 1 My open-source code http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/54-My_open-source_tools.html General> Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:56:04 +0100 http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/54-My_open-source_tools.html I decided to put some order into open-source code I published, and created the page which lists those modules:

     mekk.bitbucket.io

This page is expected to grow, both with new items, and (not yet published) old code I am going to polish and publish.

Most notable recent additions:

Continue reading "My open-source code" » ]]> nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/54-My_open-source_tools.html#disqus_thread WatchBot internals reworked http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/53-internals_reworked.html WatchBot> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:50:54 +0100 http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/53-internals_reworked.html Since early January new WatchBot (the bot) version is operating. Almost nothing changed from the user perspective, still I decided to make a note as some old bugs are gone, while some new bugs appeared.

Continue reading "WatchBot internals reworked" » ]]> nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/53-internals_reworked.html#disqus_thread How to write a FICS bot part VI - mekk.fics library http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/52-mekkfics_library.html Chess Programming> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:36:24 +0200 http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/52-mekkfics_library.html To extend my introduction to FICS bot writing I decided to share some code.

The mekk.fics library allows one to write asynchronous FICS bots and utilities in Python. I created it mostly by factoring reusable code out of WatchBot sources, polishing it here and there, extending test suite, and documenting.

Continue reading "How to write a FICS bot part VI - mekk.fics library" » ]]> nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/52-mekkfics_library.html#disqus_thread Duplicate comments resolved http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/51-Doubletriple_whispers_resolved.html WatchBot> Wed, 16 May 2012 22:50:54 +0200 http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/51-Doubletriple_whispers_resolved.html A lot of people complained about bug which caused WatchBot to quote the same whisper (or other game information) twice (or even more times).

The bug is mostly solved.

Continue reading "Duplicate comments resolved" » ]]> nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/51-Doubletriple_whispers_resolved.html#disqus_thread yourlogicalfallacy.com poster on A4 printer http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/50-yourlogicalfallacycom_poster_on_A4_printer.html General> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:04:19 +0200 http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/50-yourlogicalfallacycom_poster_on_A4_printer.html The yourlogicalfallacyis.com page provides nice summary of frequent logical errors people make. I like the site and the poster. Unfortunately I do not have large format printer handy.

Therefore I decided to make A4-friendly version of the poster simply by printing 4 quarters of original poster as individual A4 pages (which can be glued together afterwards).

Continue reading "yourlogicalfallacy.com poster on A4 printer" » ]]> nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/50-yourlogicalfallacycom_poster_on_A4_printer.html#disqus_thread Pinboard as Google Reader Share replacement http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/49-Pinboard_as_Google_Reader_Share_replacement.html Technical> Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:14:45 +0100 http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/49-Pinboard_as_Google_Reader_Share_replacement.html Google recently removed Share function of Google Reader. It was a foundation of my sharing scheme – whenever I liked some article, I pressed Shift-S (or used Share in Reader bookmarklet) and thanks to appropriately configured tools given link was forwarded to linkroll on my Polish blog, my Twitter, my Facebook, and other social networks.

I looked for replacement for some time, and finally decided to build the process on the basis of the bookmarking service – Pinboard in this case, but other bookmarking services should do too if they support per-tag RSS, and some API returning links tagged with specific tag.

Continue reading "Pinboard as Google Reader Share replacement" » ]]> nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/49-Pinboard_as_Google_Reader_Share_replacement.html#disqus_thread Pinboard bookmarks with Ctrl-D (in Firefox) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/48-Using_Ctrl-D_for_Pinboard_bookmark_in_Firefox.html Browser programming> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:49:51 +0100 http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/48-Using_Ctrl-D_for_Pinboard_bookmark_in_Firefox.html Due to problems with Delicious extension I recently migrated to Pinboard. The app (used via bookmarklets) is fairly nice, but I really missed ability to bookmark via Ctrl-D keyboard shortcut.

It turns out, there is a way.

Continue reading "Pinboard bookmarks with Ctrl-D (in Firefox)" » ]]> nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/48-Using_Ctrl-D_for_Pinboard_bookmark_in_Firefox.html#disqus_thread Scrap email addresses from GMail inbox (or other folder) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/47-Scrap_email_addresses_from_GMail_inbox_or_other_folder.html Scripts> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:30:25 +0100 http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/47-Scrap_email_addresses_from_GMail_inbox_or_other_folder.html Recently I happened to obtain quite a few emails in case of which I wanted to preserve To or Cc list members in my addressbook. GMail interface makes it easy to do it for a few addresses, but very tedious when there are a lot of them (every address must be clicked separately).

Continue reading "Scrap email addresses from GMail inbox (or other folder)" » ]]> nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/47-Scrap_email_addresses_from_GMail_inbox_or_other_folder.html#disqus_thread From Serendipity to Blogofile and Disqus http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/46-Serendipity-to-blogofile-and-disqus.html Scripts> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:31:00 +0100 http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/46-Serendipity-to-blogofile-and-disqus.html I just converted this blog from Serendipity to Blogofile, and I am in the process of converting my bigger and more important Polish blog. The news as such is not particularly important (although I would appreciate a warning in case I spoiled something), but I think that the scripts I wrote to aid the conversion may be of use for somebody.

Continue reading "From Serendipity to Blogofile and Disqus" » ]]> nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/46-Serendipity-to-blogofile-and-disqus.html#disqus_thread WatchBot migrated http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/45-WatchBot-migrated.html WatchBot> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:31:00 +0100 http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/45-WatchBot-migrated.html To resolve the disconnection problems I migrated mekk.waw.pl to another Linode datacenter, now it is operating from London. So far it seems that it helped, not a single disconnection during first day of work (while from Newark there were a few connection breaks an hour).

Continue reading "WatchBot migrated" » ]]> nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/45-WatchBot-migrated.html#disqus_thread