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Generate good-looking documentation for your app from a folder of Markdown-formatted files.
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clipodder
A small simple cron-friendly podcast downloader, with support for arbitrary user defined media types (pdf, html, etc…)
See also
csvkit
csvkit is a suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats. csvkit is to tabular data what the standard Unix text processing suite (grep, sed, cut, sort) is to text.
Update: typos corrected—thanks, David!
Clint
Clint is a module filled with a set of awesome tools for developing commandline applications.
In Python.
reddit.py
reddit.py provides an easy, convenient terminal command that will parse and print the RSS feed for the reddit front page, or any of reddit’s subreddits.
Lorem Ipsum Generator
Lorem Ipsum Generator provides a GTK+ graphical user interface, a command-line interface, and a Python module that generate random “lorem ipsum” text. The Lorem Ipsum Generator can produce a given quantity of paragraphs or sentences of “lorem ipsum” text.
I like the fact that LIG goes the extra mile and uses an English language reference text and Markov chains to generate convincing word and sentence lengths in the text it generates.
blockdiag
Generate diagrams and charts from simply-formatted text files.
Jukebox is ‘democratic music player’. A group of listeners can cue up tracks from a music library, then vote on them; the more votes a track receives, the sooner Jukebox will play it.
Sounds like a great way to resolve office music disputes!
Dexy
Dexy is an open source document automation tool that can help you create documents using your favourite programming languages and your favourite software.
Kukkaisvoima
Kukkaisvoima is a lightweight weblog system licensed under GNU Affero General Public License. Kukkaisvoima is made with Python programming language. It stores all blog entries as plain text files so you can easily write and edit those with your favorite editor.
Cinderella
Cinderella is a fully managed development environment for open source hacking on Mac OSX. It’s powered by homebrew and chef. You only need Xcode to get started. Cinderella builds everything up in ~/Developer. It won’t stomp on any of your current installations so you don’t have to commit your entire machine immediately. It’s simple to rollback if you really want to.
It installs—deep breath—mysql, postgres, redis, solr, memcached, mongodb, ruby via rbenv, python with pip, node.js with npm and erlang.
Cactus
Cactus is a simple but powerful static website generator using the Django template system. Cactus also makes it easy to develop and deploy your site to S3 directly.
Looks like a great alternative to Jekyll, particularly for those already familiar with Django.
