750.pl is a simple Perl script which can be used as a helper to set crossposting to or from 750words.com. It either gets the current entry from your 750words.com account and saves it into a local file, or posts a local file as the current entry (overwriting its contents). Usage for get: 750.pl get filename […]
The idea of daily pages is borrowed from 750words.com, which, in turn, borrows it from “The Artist’s Way” by J. Cameron (“morning pages”). Basically, writing a certain amount of words every day is supposed to positively affect your mental state and creativity in the long run, even if your writings are merely incoherent ramblings. (It’s […]
Arachnoid is an Arkanoid/Breakout clone with a twist – instead of bricks, there are spiders crawling all over the place! There are several kinds of spiders with different abilities, as well as other obstacles and bonuses. The game is written in Python/Pygame. Graphics are adopted from several sources (see this post with the links). Click […]
Thirsty Nellan in Python is a Pygame adaptation of a public domain game Thirsty Nellan. I wrote it for the purpose of learning Python and Pygame. The original game by Geoffrey M. Draper can be found at https://geoffdraper.com/programming/nellan . All the graphics and audio were copied from the original game. The fonts are public domain […]
This is a tribute to the first graphical interactive fiction game: Mystery House by Sierra-On-Line. It’s loosely based on the Inform code from http://turbulence.org/Works/mystery but all the logics is implemented from scratch. My version is a little more user-friendly than the original. (Actually, I had never played the original Mystery House apart from the Inform […]
A simple command-line script in PHP which allows to post contents of a file, or a text string, to a blog that supports metaWeblog API through XML-RPC. (Tested only with WordPress blogs.) Its usability lies in being easy to use it from other scripts, e.g. generating a file and automatically posting or crossposting it with […]
This Perl script streamlines using Google search as a grammar checker. It allows searching for several (up to 4) variants of the same phrase (e.g. with or without articles, different order of words) to see which one gets more hits and therefore is more likely to be correct, or to check if certain words can […]