🐍 Python stuff

I’ve been programming in Python since about 2001. I think it was Mo Patel, the legend that he is, who showed me the ropes while we were doing C/C++ while load testing software for the Department for Work and Pensions.

Python’s probably my favourite language and has been a constant throughout my adult life. Back then I would have called it a modern BASIC. I still think that’s a fair comment.

• 📈 Stats

👨‍💻 Devs

• 🎓 example-python-project - A template for Python projects developed in vim/vscode on Mac/Linux.

📦 Apps

• 👽 reddit-export - dumps your Reddit messages and posts to JSON.
• 💾 pymigaguide - a TUI and converter for Amiga .guide files.
• 🔤 psf2flf - convert bitmap fonts to figlet fonts.
• 📺 textual-tty - a Textual widget for bittty.
• 🔢 texxd - a hex editor for the terminal.
• 🧊 blkcache - a userspace disk cache for CDs, DVDs and floppies that are dying.
• 🚻 vwc - wc but with a live preview as it counts.
• 📂 lsoph - slop-driven TUI for strace, lsof and psutil
• 📺 yt-mpv - archive youtube videos while you watch them ad-free.
• 🐳 dockershit - create Dockerfiles in an interactive shell.
• 🛟 uh-halp - AI helper for the shell.
• 🗣️ catvox - mouth sounds go in, text comes out.
• ➕ merge-files - A universal file converter, extractor, merger. Not quite, but the blueprint for one.
• ⚠️ ienv - Brutalize your venvs by symlinking them together.
• 📑 ocr-pdf - Use Optical Character Recognition to convert a PDF to TXT.
• 🪈 benpipe - Pipe bencoded data (torrents) to JSON and back again

📚 Libs

• 🗔 bittty - a pure python terminal emulator.
• 📃 arrayfile - A file-backed array.
• ✅ upd8 - a versioned class for identity and update checking.
• 🤷 shruggingface - ungate those models, they’re public domain anyway.
• ⛰️ arranges - Represent ranges as strings in Pydantic.
• 📈 interpolist - A list that fills in missing values.
• 📱 t9 - A Python implementation of Nokia’s T9, from back when that was a thing.
• 🗄️ filefrag - Python library to access Linux File Extents

🦶 Stubs

• ❄️ freeze-one - like pip freeze | grep package but safer
• 🔦 torch-weightsonly - stop torch from spamming when loading a model

💣 Hax

• 🐈 schrodinger’s rng - Generate proveably random numbers using a smoke alarm and a webcam.
• 🍾 bubbler - Count bubbles as your beer or wine ferments.
• 🌡️ temper - Linux driver for temper digital thermometers.
• 🐌 connection-limiter - The hackiest way to limit connections per user to a back-end behind nginx.

🕸️ Older projects

• 🎹 XBMC IRC - an IRC MP3 downloader for XBMC (Kodi).
• 🔎 Google Remote Desktop Search - Search your local machine remotely.
• 🖼️ favicon to png - Tiny script to convert favicons to PNGs on the fly and cache them.
• 🕷️ Scrapers - Numerous data scrapers for various sites.

💷 Commercial stuff

• 🕵️ At NDA PROTECTED CLIENT, I’ve been writing bots and command line tools and libraries in Python.

• 💳 For First Response Finance, I wrote an ML Ops inference and deployment framework for delivering Python + R machine learning models as APIs to Azure.

• 🎰 At William Hill I wrote note and coin acceptor drivers for multiple devices, and a bunch of other things for a gaming machine.

• 📈 For Betconnect, I did a bunch of performance engineering for their exchange software.

• 🦻 At Sonocent, I wrote a BI platform to support business experiments.

• 🩺 At NHS Digital, I worked on the SPINE 2 project doing various things, probably the biggest TDD Python codebase in the world.

• 🎻 Someone on bitcointalk paid me 6 Bitcoins to write a data scraper for a violin sale site. I wish I’d kept them, they were worth $36 at the time.

• 🃏 At BetFair, I used funkload for performance testing and submitted a couple of bug fixes and made some pretty nice results visualization/reporting/diffing tools for perf tools in CI. Didn’t get permission to share the reporting tools, so all that survives is a bug report!