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Analyzing ~425 days of Hacker News posts with standard shell commands

January 05, 2016

(About) 425 days ago (at the time of this writing) I started scraping Hacker News via its shiny new API. And then I promptly forgot about it. That is, until I noticed my cronjob had been throwing errors constantly for a few weeks:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/dummy/projects/hn-cron/hn.py", line 62, in <module>
main()
File "/home/dummy/projects/hn-cron/hn.py", line 53, in main
log_line = str(details['id']) + "\t" + details['title'] + "\t" + details['url'] + "\t" + str(details['score']) + "\n"
KeyError: 'url'

Instead of fixing anything, I just commented out the cronjob. But now I feel somewhat obligated to do at least a rudimentary analysis of this data. In keeping with my extreme negligence/laziness throughout this project, I hacked together a few bash commands to do just that.

dot-man

September 28, 2015

I recently hacked together a little 300-line bash script to manage my dotfiles called dot-man . Basically, it will let you manage your dotfiles in a git repository, and you can run it every so often to keep your local / remote dotfiles up to date.

Install is as simple as:

git clone git@github.com:cneill/dot-man.git
OR
git clone https://github.com/cneill/dot-man.git

Let me know what you think! You can find me on Twitter @ccneill .

Announcing DefectDojo v1.0.2!

June 02, 2015

I’m happy to announce the latest version of a project that the Security Engineering team at Rackspace has been working on: DefectDojo ! DefectDojo is an open source defect tracking system that was created by our team to keep up with security engagements, but it can be useful for tracking any type of application testing. It supports functionality like Finding templates, PDF report generation, metrics graphs, charts, and some self-service tools for doing port scans, for example.