[I made this]

A Lightweight Metadata manager for OSX, allowing you to easily tag and rate any type of file (which is then indexed by spotlight). This is basically my iPhoto replacement now, after spending a week trying to fix its broken database, orphan files, duplicates and all that rubbish. This is much simpler, and it can be used to tag any type of file I want.

This is the result of 2 days work, and just 400 lines of code. That’s pretty decent in my book, the combination of python and cocoa is a pretty powerful beast. Once you get past all the runtime errors and pyobjc bridge troubles, that is…

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I think Apple’s products are great, but it’s a sad state of affairs when only jailbroken devices can be fixed in order to actually browse the web properly…

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According to matt, I just made milk come out of Python’s nose.

[i made this, although I’m hardly proud of that fact]

For those who care (or are thoroughly confused), this is a python function to find out where an alias file (the mac’s version of a shortcut or soft link) actually points to. And no, it really shouldn’t have to be this hard.

Isn’t it great how a goddamn photo frame has the ability to run arbitrary code with the full authority of the current user?

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Oh look, it’s a comic!

[I made this]

A Distributed Shared Memory System With Self-Adjusting.. Wang

• An unfortunate cropping of a research paper reference, lending itself to a rather amusing mental image. Also happens to be the the top google hit for “self-adjusting wang”. [source]