02. October 2017 · Comments Off on Piwigo to RSS · Categories: Programming · Tags: , , ,

Ok, this is another wildly specific hack but on the off chance there’s another human trying to do the same thing: here’s a file you can download if you’re using Piwigo to host your images and you want to send a feed of random images from one category to a program via RSS. In my case, I love using John’s Background Switcher (JBS) to show pictures I’ve taken as background photos. JBS is one of those programs that does one thing and does it very well. It can pull files from a variety of popular hosting services, I started using it back when I had my photos on Flickr. Here’s how you can point it to your Piwigo instance.
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11. January 2015 · Comments Off on Exporting a list of bought and borrowed Kindle books from Amazon · Categories: Programming · Tags: , , , ,

Updated December, 2021

This is a very quick-and-dirty method to pull all the books that Amazon knows you have bought or borrowed for your Kindle. There are various ways to export the list of purchased books from Amazon but I read a lot of e-books from the library and couldn’t find a way to export those. (Dec, 2021 Update: Fixed code after Amazon revamped their layout – thanks for letting me know, Robin!)

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