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Watch out for unicode when using pyquery and requests. I provided a fix for that just recently now merged into the pyquery repo. I use it (among other things) to scrape upcoming co…

Do you mean that the algo sorts on decreasing color frequency? i.e. you choose "blue" then the top results are images that are literally all "blue". Usually when I want an image wi…

Anyone scraping in Perl? I've found pQuery very useful. (I tried it in node.js to stay cool, but async scraping is an anti-pattern) You can use jQuery selectors, etc... Just posted…

I did the same thing with my local pizza shop. They were =really= happy to get the domain... and in return they gave me a $100 credit, and I threw a party for my friends... good ti…

CSS gets re-written anyway along the way. Resets gives you a leg up in the beginning for a consistent look across browsers so you can focus on other pieces of a project -- at least…

if you're using an ubuntu image, it's going to be the ubuntu user: ssh -i path/to/key.pem ubuntu@blah.amazonaws.com Spent too much time figuring that out the hardway...

I've got a follow up post that shows how to use upstart instead of init to manage supervisor http://cuppster.com/2011/05/18/using-supervisor-with-upstart People were having issues …

Yes it does, but I'm having so much fun deploying these things, I've created more than one... =)

I've used this recipe for a couple sites of mine, including the blog itself. The ups and downs of beta features of other node.js hosting providers was becoming a hindrance so I dec…

I loved that podcast... also, you can find his QVC work on youtube. Gold.

I've been moving my domains from godaddy to moniker as well... for some time now b/c of the better control panel. Plus, domains bought in the snapnames aftermarket can be moved to …

Just last weekend at the startup weekend in San Diego I joined a team working on this kind of idea. Having a facepalm moment right now upon hearing this news...

I've made one of those for practice at http://redlandsbuzz.com (my home town). It's backed by MailChimp. What I should do is place a unique cookie, then on the confirmation page, u…

I'll take a mortgage-reduction bomb any day...

Around 9, started with the VIC-20 and a stack of BASIC programming games books - still love those crossword generator programs!

On the heels of all the press about Delicious sunsetting, I went to work on a clone using WordPress called "Savory". Would love to get feedback on it: Code is hosted at bitbucket: …

I see the fight now moving to the "managed services" space. As Netflix warned earlier, this is where ISP start to really cash in and squash competition, and there's nothing in thes…

Today I put together a WordPress plugin/theme to import delicious bookmarks and make them browsable at http://b.cuppster.com/ and a little write up at http://goo.gl/7lus7 Anyone in…