We at Leonard Labs want to help the developer community. Why? So that we can gain their trust and then trick them into using our proprietary technology.
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!
##### Software package groups ### Greatest hits group:greatestHits title:Greatest hits These are my most monumental, most widely acclaimed, or simply my coolest programming projects. ### Web software group:web title:Web software description:Software designed to be run through a web server. ### Standalone software group:standalone title:Standalone software Software designed to be run on your computer (assuming your computer runs some UNIX variant) ### Libraries group:libraries title:Libraries description:Reusable libraries, generally for use in web applications. ### IF group:if title:Interactive Fiction homepage:/software/if/ Original works of interactive fiction. ### Bagatelles group:bagatelles title:Bagatelles Simple pieces of software, usually web-based. Not cross-categorized to avoid cluttering up the other categories. ### Incomplete code group:incomplete title:Incomplete or archaic code Incomplete but interesting software, and software that I consider too old to use. Such software may just need a little sprucing up, or it may be beyond hope. Not cross-categorized. ##### Software packages #### Standalone software ### KatzDot package:KatzDot groups:standalone date:1999 license:GPL language:Dada Engine homepage:http://www.torsion.org/witten/katzdot/ An automatic Jon Katz headline generator, written for the Dada Engine by my onetime roomate Dan Helfman, but with many textual contributions from myself. ### ksethdavidschoen package:ksethdavidschoen groups:standalone date:Released September 27, 2002 license:Public Domain language:AMOR plugin homepage:/software/ksethdavidschoen/ A little theme for AMOR which brings the floating head of world-famous hacker Seth David Schoen to your desktop. Written for Seth's 23rd birthday. ### robotfindskitten package:robotfindskitten groups:standalone,greatestHits date:1997-1999 license:GPL language:C homepage:http://www.robotfindskitten.org 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. ### The Pocket Wisherman package:The Pocket Wisherman groups:standalone date:2005 license:Python language:Python homepage:/software/PocketWisherman The Pocket Wisherman slices and dices Amazon wish lists. It can group lists of books and music by author and genre and output HTML lists or densely formatted PDF 3x5 cards. ### Sales Rank Monitor package: Sales Rank Monitor groups:standalone date:July 26, 2006 license: Public domain language:Ruby homepage/software/SalesRank/SalesRank.rb The Sales Rank Monitor tracks the sales rank of books and other items on Amazon, and makes graphs and sparklines out of the sales rank history. For obsessive-compulsive authors. ### The Power of Greypoint package:The Power Of Greypoint groups:standalone date:March 23, 2003 license:Public domain language:Python homepage:/source/software/download/ThePowerOfGreypoint.py The Power Of Greypoint is a super-cheap presentation program. It's a Python script that turns a file full of ReST markup into a bunch of HTML presentation slides with invisible navigation. It requires docutils. I used it to make this presentation for PyCon 2003. ### What Fools These Mortals package:What Fools These Mortals groups:standalone date:May 18, 2003 license:NetHack General Public License language:Python homepage:/software/WhatFools/ What Fools These Mortals is a takeoff on NetHack in which you play a NetHack deity trying to keep your champion alive. #### Web software ### The Bayes Motel package:The Bayes Motel groups:web date:June 12, 2005 language:Python license:Python homepage:http://www.crummy.com/software/BayesMotel/ The Bayes Motel is a framework that makes it easy to test out ideas of the form "could I program a Bayesian corpus to distinguish x-type text from y-type text?" To use it, you write a class that puts items of text into a classification queue, then use the provided CGI script to classify the items. ### Bloop package:Bloop groups:web date:2003-2004 license:GPL language:Perl homepage:/software/Bloop/ Bloop is a version of Scoop that was heavily hacked to focus around weblogs rather than news-site submissions. I wrote it for the Clark Campaign and it's still in use at forclark.com. ### Downhill package:Downhill groups:web date:2003 license:Python language:Python homepage:/software/downhill/ Downhill finds connections between weblogs using the blogging ecosystem data. Usable as a command-line program or as a CGI. ### Madman package:Madman groups:web date:1999 language:Perl license:Probably owned by UCLA Madman is a simple hypertext annotation framework which I wrote for UCLA professor Peter Hodgson. Only one text has so far been annotated using Madman: Gogol's "Diary of a Madman". ### Me Software Map package:The Me Software Map groups:web date:2002 license:BSD-style language:Python homepage:/software/msm/ You're using it right now. A labor-saving device making it easy for busy hackers to keep a page containing information about all their projects. ### NewsBruiser package:NewsBruiser groups:web,greatestHits date:1998-present license:BSD-style language:Python homepage:http://newsbruiser.tigris.org/ 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. ### Noodle package:Noodle groups:web date:2002 license:BSD-style (tigris.org) language:Java homepage:http://noodle.tigris.org/ Noodle is a set of Java classes for transparently making arbitrary changes to an HTTP request and response, according to logic contained in Java 'filters' that you write. You can use Noodle to remove personal identification information from an HTTP request, to wrap an HTTP response in new branding, or for any number of other purposes. The original Noodle was written by Jon Stevens (jon at tigris dot org). As part of my former job at CollabNet I rewrote it to be more flexible and much more efficient. ### Ultra Gleeper package:The Ultra Gleeper groups:web date:2004-2005 license:BSD-style language:Python homepage:http://www.crummy.com/software/UltraGleeper/ The Ultra Gleeper is a recommendation engine for web pages, suitable for personal use. It solves or avoids most of the problems that make recommendation engines frustrating to use. ### The Eater of Meaning package:The Eater of Meaning groups:web date:2003 license:GPL language:Python homepage:http://www.crummy.com/software/eater/ The Eater of Meaning makes nonsense out of content, without affecting form. Usable in standalone or web proxy mode. #### Libraries ### ASCII, Dammit package:ASCII, Dammit groups:libraries date:2004 language:Python license:Public domain homepage:http://newsbruiser.tigris.org/source/browse/~checkout~/newsbruiser/nb/lib/AsciiDammit.py A tool similar to The Demoroniser, but written as a Python library and capable of ASCIIfying not only MS smart quotes but (with varying degrees of accuracy) most of ISO-Latin-1. For use in fits of parochialism when you want something in ASCII, dammit. Can also convert such characters to HTML. See also the Unicode, Dammit library that comes withBy 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 package:Dada Pokey groups:bagatelles homepage:/features/pokey/ license:BSD-style language:Perl A suite of programs for randomly shuffling and generally having fun with Pokey The Penguin comic strips. ### Dog Bites Dog package:Dog Bites Dog groups:bagatelles homepage:/features/DogBitesDog/ license:BSD-style language:Python Scrapes 'offbeat' news headlines and recombines them to make them even more 'offbeat'. Two command-line scripts, one of which generates HTML. ### Document tree printer package:Document tree printer groups:bagatelles homepage:/cgi-bin/source.cgi?cgi-bin/print_tree.cgi language:Perl date:1999 license:GPL 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. ### Mail viewer package:Mail viewer groups:bagatelles date:1998-2002 license:BSD-style language:Python homepage:/source/mail/mail.cgi A simple, spamproofed web-based frontend to viewing email messages (specific, preselected email messages, not whatever ones are in, eg, an IMAP account). ###Source viewer ###Tonight's String package:Tonight's String groups:bagatelles date:2002 language: Python license: Murder Public License homepage:/source/software/TonightsString.py. 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. ### Fast Jack's Floating Hall Of Craps package:Fast Jack's Floating Hall Of Craps groups:bagatelles date:1996-2000 language:Python license:BSD-style homepage:/features/hall/craps/ 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. ### The McSweenifier package:The McSweenifier groups:bagatelles date:Released March 17, 2001 homepage:/features/mcsweenifier/ language:Python license:BSD-style 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. ### Monty Hall's Hall Of Doors package:Monty Hall's Hall Of Doors groups:bagatelles homepage:/articles/monty/ language:Perl license:GPL A CGI simulation of the Monty Hall Paradox. Nifty features galore. If this doesn't convince you, you can't be convinced. #### Incomplete or archaic software #### TATC package:The Arbitrary Text Code groups:incomplete date:1999 license:In limbo language:Perl homepage:/software/tatc/ There was a book a while back called 'The Bible Code' which purported to find hidden messages in the Old Testament. The Arbitrary Text Code brings the excitement of The Bible Code to whatever large chunk of text you happen to have lying around. This works, but not very well, and it's slow. ### robotfindskitten 2 package:robotfindskitten2 groups:incomplete name:robotfindskitten 2: This Time It's Personal! license:Ask me language:C homepage:/software/robotfindskitten/#rfk2 If you found robotfindskitten just a little too relaxing, if you crave a revival of the glory days of ANSI blood-and-guts, then have I got a deal for you! At great expense, I have written the definitive sequel to robotfindskitten, taking out all the funny messages and bizarre objects and replacing all that hoity-toity kitten-finding nonsense with a simple goal: kill or be killed!
robotfindskitten 2 is built on a bare-bones framework for writing an action game with ncurses, which you might find interesting. You're free to use the framework with or without attribution, or just rip off the doubly-linked-list implementation ### Tigris package:Tigris groups:incomplete license:BSD-style (tigris.org) language:Java date:2000-2001 homepage:/software/tigris/ Tigris is a suite of scripts and Java servlets which works with tools such as CVS to provide an easy-to-use software development environment. I worked on Tigris as part of my former job at CollabNet. The core component of Tigris is called Helm, and most of the Helm code was written by either Daniel Rall (dlr at finemaltcoding dot com) or myself.
In August 2001, the source to the Tigris suite was closed (but development continues as CollabNet). The download link will give you tarballs of the CVS repositories just before they were closed.
The Tigris version of Helm contains project, user, and group administration; a fast, ultra-flexible fine-grained access control system; a task runner; a distributed caching and cache invalidation system, and a lot of other stuff. There are also other components, which I did some work on: Picayune (a tool for project news), Nidaba (project documents), etc. The code is old, but it's good. ### eBlock Captains package:eBlock Captains groups:incomplete license:BSD-style language:Perl date:2004 homepage:/software/eblocks/ A program I wrote for the 2004 Wesley Clark presidential campaign. It was later adapted (not by me) for the Kerry campaign. It distributes a phone banking task among a large number of volunteers.