I have a new page on my website to show me how much distance I've tracked with Strava this year. It's powered by this JSON file and this Zola template, which renders the ...

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I follow Steve Messer’s blog – he’s a product manager in the UK Civil Service, making land and housing data easier to find, use and trust. And he writes weeknotes which I enjoy reading. He mentioned this week that his team’s blog doesn’t prod...

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After a year at the bottom of my drawer, I have busted out my Pimoroni Flotilla. It has a Python API and so I figured this was as good a time as any to use Python3 for the first time in many years. Part of the kit is

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Following my last post I was considering writing a Venus filter which adds all feed items into a

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sudo apt-get install python-feedparser easy_install jsonpickle sudo apt-get install couchdb easy_install couchdb sudo couchdb Open a new terminal python import feedparser, jsonpickle from couchdb import Server s = Server('http://127.0.0.1:5984/') len(s) db = s.create('feeds') len(s) doc = feedparser....

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venus-ng is a fork of Venus which uses Newsgator to provide both the reading list and the feeds. This means that venus-ng will, at a particular point in time, give you an accurate representation of your currently unread Newsgator feed entries. Here is...

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I recently broke the graphics drivers on my Windows Vista installation, so re-partitioned and now run Ubuntu full-time at home. On Windows I use FeedDemon as my full-time aggregator. It has a degree of speed and polish unmatched by any other web or desktop aggregator. This means that all my feeds are automat...

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This is a summary of what I got from the Trac installation instructions here, here, here and here. My life would have been ea...

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bzr get http://philwilson.org/code/wxvenus wxVenus is, at the moment, a desktop tool for browsing the cache that a local Venus installation creates when it runs. It is written in wxPython and is dependent on lxml.

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Whilst trying to parse some Atom (my Blogger backup) with libxml2 I appear to have run into the same problem that Aristotle hit two years ago in XPath vs the default namespace: easy things should be easy, to wit: The story is that you can’t match on the default namespace in XPath.

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