Simple pieces of software, usually web-based. Not cross-categorized to avoid cluttering up the other categories.
| # BBS2ANSI | June 20, 1999 | License: GPL | Perl | |
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BBS2ANSI is a Perl script which correctly converts Wildcat!-style BBS
color codes to standard ANSI color codes. It lets you specify strings
to substitute in for the BBS/caller information codes. If you don't
know what I'm talking about, you don't need it. But I needed it, and
it took me a while to find all the information I needed to write it,
so if you do need it, I've already done the work for you.
By the way, Wildcat! is no longer owned by Mustang; they sold it to a company called Santronics. Another piece of information it took me a long time to find. They don't recognize the fact that I was a paying customer of Mustang, though, so I couldn't get any technical information from them. | ||||
| # Dada Pokey | - | License: BSD-style | Perl | |
| A suite of programs for randomly shuffling and generally having fun with Pokey The Penguin comic strips. | ||||
| # Document tree printer | 1999 | License: GPL | Perl | |
| Takes a URL and turns it into a list of links to the various components of the URL. Useful for automatically inserting navigation links in your web pages. | ||||
| # Dog Bites Dog | - | License: BSD-style | Python | |
| Scrapes 'offbeat' news headlines and recombines them to make them even more 'offbeat'. Two command-line scripts, one of which generates HTML. | ||||
| # Fast Jack's Floating Hall Of Craps | 1996-2000 | License: BSD-style | Python | |
| Second in the series of "x's House of y" simulations, FJFHoC is a Python simulation that gives odds on craps. Originally a C++ program which has been lost in the mists of time. | ||||
| # Mail viewer | 1998-2002 | License: BSD-style | Python | |
| A simple, spamproofed web-based frontend to viewing email messages (specific, preselected email messages, not whatever ones are in, eg, an IMAP account). | ||||
| # Monty Hall's Hall Of Doors | - | License: GPL | Perl | |
| A CGI simulation of the Monty Hall Paradox. Nifty features galore. If this doesn't convince you, you can't be convinced. | ||||
| # The McSweenifier | Released March 17, 2001 | License: BSD-style | Python | |
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Formats your pathetic attempts at McSweeney's stories as though
they had actually been approved and published. Shameless as only
software can be, it will dutifully format as McSweeney's stories
things which don't look like McSweeney's stories at all.
The (rather tepid) irony is that the McSweeney's folks could actually get some good use out of this program, since it looks like they do all their HTML by hand. | ||||
| # Tonight's String | 2002 | License: Murder Public License | Python | |
| A tiny publisher for updated-daily content, useful when the content is a short string (such as a quote of the day). Choose each day's content randomly or following an order you specify. Includes an archive viewer and an RSS feed. Used to power Tonight's Episode. | ||||