I wanted a handy way to convert a feed url to the redirected url. For example, Reeder puts this url on the clipboard:

“http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/~r/harvardbusiness/~3/_folqII9-_8/beware-of-the-short-term-opera.html”

But when I make a post, I want this url:

“http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2011/12/beware-of-the-short-term-opera.html”

There are a number of reasonable ways to do this, but I like Python so that’s what I went with.

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Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) and directly in restructured text, or markdown.
A simple cli-tool to (re)generate the weblog.
Easy to interface with DVCSes and web hooks
Completely static output, so easy to host anywhere !

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jBrout is a photo manager. * manage albums/photos (= folders/files) * tag photos with IPTC keywords * use internal jpeg thumbnail * comment photos (with jpeg comment) and album (textfile in folder) * rotate loss-less jpeg (and internal jpeg thumbnail)

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