My Crappy Code Blog

I decided to play the classic interactive fiction game Zork, which is available as a Hugo re-write. Unfortunately, the gargoyle-free package for Ubuntu doesn’t have the (non-free) Hugo interpreter. Straight-up Gargoyle from github does, but it was a bit of a pain to compile. [Read More]

I use a script to export highlights and notes from my kindle’s My Clippings.txt file to an sqlite3 database. [Read More]

I use a little python script to grab clippings out of my (early model) kindle’s My Clippings.txt file and import them into an sqlite3 database. The clips and notes are in a consistant format, so it’s possible to parse the file with some regular expressions, and a little logic. I... [Read More]

Yeah, so this is sort of embarrassing. I play interactive fiction using Gargoyle every now and then, and I’ve been trying to figure out a way around Gargoyle’s obvious lack of any transcript-export feature. Turns out, you just have to type script into the parser. From then on, all the... [Read More]

Evapotraspiration (ETo) rates are handy figures you can use to estimate how long to turn on your sprinklers or drip irrigation. Unfortunately, most guides I’ve see either assume you have a degree in agriculture (and don’t really need instruction), or are completely clueless (so they dumb things down too much).... [Read More]