Sporkmonger

“I tried pirating Mint and it left a bad taste in my blog”

—Shaun Inman on what to do with Mint pirates

Ha! That would be awesome. I use Mint on this site and I love it.

I really like his thought on creating a hall of shame though. My plan for Sporkfed is very, very similar to what Mint did—commerical software, but the source is available to you to hack away at to your heart’s content for your own personal use. Piracy will be an inevitable problem, but if its trivial to determine if an installation is pirated, a public hall of shame could be a great way of preventing the issue through social pressure instead of copy protection.

Firefox

67%

Safari

19%

Internet Explorer

10%

Camino

2%

Opera

2%

Mozilla

<1%

NetNewsWire

<1%

Galeon

<1%

Epiphany

<1%

Konqueror

<1%

AppleWebKit (Generic)

<1%

Neat-o, I have non-conformist readers. Early on, Epiphany managed to get as high at 10% on my minty browser pie chart. But I can only assume that was the work of probably one or two people, not sure exactly who. I’d probably be all about the Camino myself if only I had a way to get my greasemonkey goodness (mostly because I really need my hoodwink.d and mouseHole isn’t perfect), and maybe also that wondrous web developer FF extension. But alas and alak! It does not appear to be likely to happen anytime soon.

FeedTools 0.2.19 is taking a bit longer than I expected, might be a few more days. I really should have aimed for a smaller release I think. I’m pretty sure this release has the most significant set of code changes so far in terms of just LOC changed. I’ve pretty much had to change every single parsing method in the whole thing. I’m really not sure why I didn’t do it this way to begin with though—just a bad original design choice on my part.