Clark's Tech Blog
August 20, 2009 at 8:52 PM by Dr. Drang
I learned about Clark’s Tech Blog when its proprietor, Clark Goble, commented on this post of mine, letting me know that one of the downsides of Python 3 is that it can’t be used for PyObjC development. I read through several of Clark’s posts and decided to subscribe. He seems like a better version of me, in that
- He writes simple but very practical scripts to help automate his digital life.
- He writes in Python.
- He uses a Mac.
- He has a job that seems to bear little relation to his blog. (Unlike me, though, he doesn’t hide his non-blog life.)
How is he better than me? Well, just look at his scripts. Clark writes Python the way it’s supposed to be written: well structured, with an
if __name__ == '__main__':
stanza at the end that allows the code to be used as a module as well as an executable script. My code isn’t nearly as clean.
Another example is in his series of posts on cleaning his iTunes library. I talked about fixing the capitalization of the track titles in my library; he went ahead and wrote a script to do it—a script I will be stealing, by the way.
One thing I won’t be stealing are his recent tips on jailbreaking an iPhone. Reminds me too much of the effort I went through to get a smoothly running Linux desktop system in the mid-90s. An effort that I don’t regret but don’t want to relive.
