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Twitter incremental backup in YAML format - python, HTML get and parse

I use Twitter primarly as a bookmarking service.

I know that Twitter is not bookmarking service and there are specialized services for such needs. In my case, using this way started as an experiment, but later I found this way very convenient.

I wrote a script that enables me to incrementally backup all my tweets in a textual file in YAML format, by parsing HTML Twitter pages. Explanation and the script follows …

Mercurial branches - ‘named branches’ way - prefered way to do it?

Mercurial provides many ways to do branch based development. I was searchingfor the best in-repo branch solution. I chose named branches …

How to count characters, bytes and words in Vim

The article provides some information and tips on the subject: how to count characters, bytes and words in Vim.

Go on windows tutorial (#golang)

Recently I invested some time to learn about new and popular language Go. I wanna give a test-drive, and since I have Windows XP and there is no GO official windows Go port, I needed to do some manual work.