John Nagro immediately reported errors with the Spider Ruby gem, so I’ve fixed them in 0.2.1. You should upgrade, especially if you want support for:
URLs without any path component (e.g. http://example.com?s=1).
HTTP redirects.
HTTPS.
John also had some good ideas, so here is what is in the works:
The ability to construct a complete graph of every node found.
Defeat [...]
Ah, the thrill of working for a Web startup: one day you think you might get an obscene raise; the next you discover that the company is out of business.
And yet, I’m addicted to them.
If you or someone you know needs a programmer for their Web startup (or any other job, really), I would be [...]
I’ve released version 0.2.0 of Spider. Everything has changed:
Use RSpec to ensure that it mostly works.
Use WEBrick to create a small test server for additional testing.
Completely re-do the API to prepare for future expansion.
Add the ability to apply each URL to a series of custom allowed?-like matchers.
BSD license.
The new API is kinda cool. From the [...]
I’ve been working on the uberman sleep schedule for the past week-and-a-half. Here the crontab I use to help remember to follow the schedule:
DISPLAY=:0.0
0 2,6,10,14,18,22 * * * /usr/local/bin/dbus-launch /usr/local/bin/notify-send -u low -t 5000 -i stock_timer ‘Sleep in 30 minutes’ ‘Your sleep is coming up in a half hour’
25 2,6,10,14,18,22 * * * /usr/local/bin/dbus-launch /usr/local/bin/notify-send [...]
