Tag Archives: programming

Shutting down @LinkArchiver, the Twitter link backup bot

posted on 26 August, 2018 also tagged ,

After a little over a year of service, @LinkArchiver, the Twitter bot that automatically made Internet Archive backups of the links you tweeted, has archived its last link. In that time it archived somewhere around 7.2 million links total from about 9,000 users.1“Quote tweets” are treated like links to tweets, and constituted about a third […]

Pulling free and open weather data

posted on 22 September, 2017 also tagged , , , ,

When I decided to add realtime weather effects to @choochoobot, I knew there were a few qualities I wanted to find in a data source. Ideally I would find something free and reliable that didn’t require me to agree to many developer terms or sign up for an API token. Google shuttered its undocumented Weather […]

Which states hated Wesley?

posted on 8 September, 2017 also tagged , , , , ,

One of my goals while at Recurse Center has been to improve my ability to manipulate and visualize data sets. To that end, I’ve been toying around with the Social Security Administration’s baby name dataset, which records the number of babies born with each given name every year, both federally and at the state level. […]

New bot: @78_sampler, serving up old records

posted on 11 August, 2017 also tagged , , , ,

The Internet Archive hosts an incredible collection of over 25,000 professionally digitized 78rpm records. The great thing about a catalog that large is that, if you know what you want, you’re likely to find it. On the other hand, if you just want to browse it can be overwhelming and even intimidating. Each item could […]

He did the monster mosh: automated datamoshing with tweaked GOP lengths

posted on 21 July, 2017 also tagged , , ,

After I posted yesterday about my automated datamoshing experiment, I got a nice message on Twitter from developer and botmaker Ryan Bauman who was able to run my script on his own videos. We talked for a bit about how it could be improved, and I had a major realization that I had to test […]