TITLE Software Calculated to Drive You Mad

<h1>Software Calculated to Drive You Mad</h1>

<p>We at Crummy want to help the developer community. Why? So that we
can gain their trust and then trick them into using our proprietary
technology.</p>

<p>Just kidding. The programs here are all licensed under either an
OSI-approved license or the generic 'look at the code and let me know
if you want to use it for something' license. Enjoy!</p>

<p>For many small but fun scripts, see <a
href="/features/">Features</a>.

<h2>Greatest Hits</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="/software/PocketWisherman">The Pocket Wisherman</a> (2005-present)
 - Slices and dices Amazon wish lists.
</li>

<li><a href="/software/BeautifulSoup/">Beautiful Soup</a> (2004-present) - Parse
 and process real-web HTML without the pain.  
</li>

<li><a href="http://newsbruiser.tigris.org/">NewsBruiser</a> (1998-present) -
Easy-to-use weblog publishing system.</li>

<li>
<a href="http://www.robotfindskitten.org/">robotfindskitten (1997-1999)</a> - The original Zen simulation.
 <ul>
 <li><a href="/software/robotfindskitten/">Python implementation</a> (2004)</li>
 <li><a href="http://robotfindskitten.org/aw.cgi?main=ports.rfk#POSIX">POSIX implementation</a> (1999)</li>
 </ul>
</li>

</ul>

<h2>Libraries</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="chess/">PyChess</a> (2009) - I didn't write this, but I
fixed some bugs and the author asked me to make my fixes available by
forking the project.

<li><a href="wadl.rb">wadl.rb</a> (2007) - Cheap Ruby parser and
client for <a href="https://wadl.dev.java.net/">WADL</a> files and the web
services they describe.

<li><a
href="http://newsbruiser.tigris.org/unbranded-source/browse/*checkout*/newsbruiser/nb/lib/IWantOptions.py?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain">I
Want Options</a> (2002-2004) - Reusable web-based configuration
framework. (<a
href="http://www.crummy.com/software/PyCon2003/Beyond%20The%20Config%20File.htm">paper</a>) (<a href="/software/PyCon2003/slides/">slides</a>)

<li><a href="/software/ScrapeNFeed/">Scrape 'N' Feed</a> (2005) -
Easily scrape web pages and turn them into RSS feeds.

<li><a
href="http://newsbruiser.tigris.org/source/browse/~checkout~/newsbruiser/nb/lib/AsciiDammit.py">ASCII,
Dammit</a> (2004) - Callously turn smart quotes and ISO-Latin-1 into ASCII.

<li><a href="http://noodle.tigris.org/">Noodle</a> (2002) - A
transparent HTTP proxy.</li>

</ul>

<h2>Fun and Games</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="YABO/">YABO</a> (2007) - A Ruby implementation of the <a
href="http://itp.nyu.edu/~ap1607/nbo/">Byte Organ</a>.

<li><a href="nethack/">Miscellaneous Nethack patches</a> (2004-present) -
Includes the famous dinosaur patch!

<li><a href="WhatFools/">What Fools These Mortals</a>
(2003) - Nethack parody.

<li><a href="http://www.crummy.com/software/eater/">The Eater of
Meaning</a> (2003-present) - Destroys content without affecting form.

<li><a href="ksethdavidschoen/">ksethdavidschoen</a> (2002) - Brings
the floating head of Seth David Schoen to your desktop.

<li><a href="if/knapsack/">The Knapsack Problem</a> (2001) -
Grab an optimal subset of the loot.

<li><a href="if/degeneracy/">Degeneracy</a> (2001) - Interactive
fiction. Escape the castle.</li>

<li><a href="if/gtv/">Guess The Verb!</a> (2000) -
Interactive fiction. Silly satire.

</ul>

<h2>Bagatelles</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="/software/ansi2html/">ANSI2HTML</a> (2008) Convert ANSI
graphics to HTML. It's k-rad.

<li><a href="/software/SalesRank/SalesRank.rb">Sales rank monitor</a> (2006)
- For obsessive authors.

<li><a href="BayesMotel/">The Bayes Motel</a> (2005) - Quickly see
whether a problem can be solved with Bayesian classification.

<li><a
href="http://newsbruiser.tigris.org/source/browse/~checkout~/newsbruiser/nb/lib/transfusion.py">Transfusion</a>
(2004) - Python parser for <a
href="http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/docs/mtimport.html">Movable
Type import format.</a>

<li><a href="/source/software/download/akla.py">Ass-Kicking Laser
Algorithm</a> (2004) - Python parser for <a
href="http://weblogs.com/api.html">weblogs.com XML format</a>.</li>

<li><a href="/source/software/download/ThePowerOfGreypoint.py">The Power Of Greypoint</a> (2003) - Super cheap HTML-based presentation software.</li>

<li><a href="/source/software/download/bbs2ansi.pl">BBS2ANSI</a>
(1999) - Converts Wildcat! BBS display screens to standard ANSI.

</ul>

<h2>Obsolete, Incomplete, and B-Sides</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="/software/RubyfulSoup/">Rubyful Soup</a> (2005) - Ruby
port of Beautiful Soup. Made obsolete by <a
href="http://wiki.github.com/why/hpricot">hpricot</a>.

<li><a href="/software/UltraGleeper/">The Ultra Gleeper</a>
(2004-2005) A (prototype) personal recommendation engine for web
pages. (<a href="UltraGleeper/IntroPaper.html">paper</a>) (<a
href="http://www.crummy.com/software/UltraGleeper/IntroSlides/img0.html">slides</a>)

<li><a href="eblocks/">eBlock Captains</a> (2004) - Campaign software
for managing a distributed phone bank.

<li><a href="/software/Bloop/">Bloop</a> (2003-2004) - A heavily
hacked, blog-centric version of <a
href="http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/">Scoop</a>.

<li><a href="downhill/">Downhill</a> (2003) - Find paths between
weblogs. Died for lack of up-to-date data.

<li><a href="/software/msm/">The Me Software Map</a> (2002) - For some
reason I thought this would be easier to use than an HTML file.

<li><a href="tigris/">Tigris</a> (2000-2001) - Online suite for distributed
software development.

<li><a href="robotfindskitten/#rfk2">robotfindskitten 2: This Time It's Personal!</a> (1999) - Bloodthirsty game.

<li><a href="tatc/">The Arbitrary Text Code</a> (1999) - The ultimate <tt>grep</tt>.

</ul>