These are my most monumental, most widely acclaimed, or simply my coolest programming projects.
| # Beautiful Soup | 2004-2006 | License: Python | Python | |
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Beautiful Soup is an HTML/XML parser with no external dependencies and
no soul. It doesn't care if you give it bad markup; you just get back
a data structure that's bad in a corresponding way. It's designed for
screen-scraping applications when you only care about part of the
markup you're processing. It also uses any means neccessary to convert
incoming documents to Unicode, using an | ||||
| # Guess The Verb! | 2000 | License: Ask me | Inform | |
| Scenario-based adventure satirizing various IF genres. Very silly, lots of detail. Finished 11th in the 2000 IF Competition. | ||||
| # I Want Options | 2002-present | License: Python | Python | |
| I Want Options is a reusable configuration framework. It can be used to move a web applications' configuration data online with the rest of the data, to do user preferences, or anything else your twisted mind can think of. Originally developed for use in NewsBruiser. | ||||
| # NewsBruiser | 1998-present | License: BSD-style | Python | |
| A simple, powerful, easy-to-{install,use,administer}, self-contained weblog system. Builds on years of experience with writing for the web. Check out the feature tour. This is my coolest piece of free software. | ||||
| # robotfindskitten | 1997-1999 | License: GPL | C | |
| The most popular piece of free software I've ever written, and the only one ever to have spawned a developer community that didn't need me as a linchpin. An ncurses Zen simulation which has been ported to the Palm Pilot, the Dreamcast, the Game Boy Advance, and other unlikely places. It's also been included on the Linux Bootable Business Card and in Debian. I've handed robotfindskitten development over to the robotfindskitten consortium, of which I am a (mainly honorary) member. | ||||