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Wow, only 12 steps? Simeon Franklin does the best run down I've read of Python decorators.

I often use MultiMarkdown headers with my plain text files. I've found the headers can be quite useful in some contexts. For example, my Hazel rule for processing files based on a "tags" field. But I've found it irritating that I can include such a large variety of data in the header but I can not really use it to find file when I need them. So I sat down and scratched this irritating itch.

Imagy is a daemon that watches a website's media folder and automatically compresses the images in a lossless format using the smush library. Looks very interesting.

Yes, I am blogging about blogging. What follows is both boring and tedious. There must be something better for both of us to do. Skimming is recommended. I made a major update to my home-grown system for blogging. For a quick summary, I use Hazel in conjunction with a Python script to allow me to blog directly from a Dropbox folder. When I began the project, I used Simplenote to post from my iPad and iPhone.

A really nice post about using the Mac clipboard in Python. Specifically, the script adds a nice bit to filter the clipboard content type. The entire site is great.

Clark's script prints the entire list of Python packages installed with easy_install. I don't know what's normal, but I feel like maybe I have too many.

Plumbum is a Python library for cross platform shell commands in Python? I'm not sure when I would use this instead of the Python OS modules. Maybe if I wrote more scripts that were intended to be cross platform. It's something interesting to play with. By way of Clark's Tech Blog.

I've been fiddling with my Hazel Dropbox to FTP rule lately. But in the middle of it, I received a polite prompt to make it work with Amazon S3 instead. I'm a sucker for learning something new so I made this Python based Hazel rule. I Installed the boto module for working with Amazon AWS. This is a mature library of methods for doing all sorts of stuff with Amazon AWS.

Macstories.net linked to QuickShot 2.0. It's an iOS app that can send photos directly to Dropbox. But I was thinking, I would prefer an app that could quickly send images to my FTP server at Macdrifter.com. So I came up with a little Hazel rule to connect Dropbox and my FTP server. Design Considerations I want to put these files on my FTP server so that I can use them for posts to this site.

I don't remember how I stumbled across this, but Outputty is a Python module for transforming structured tabular data from one format to another. For example, converting CSV to an HTML table. Just look at this tutorial. Nice.