Can I tell you about my projects?

A lot has happened during the last couple of months. I quit my job at StackBuilders, got a YC interview (and blew it) and after a lot of meditation, I finally decided what I want to do with my life.

I’ve had a lot of free time so I’ve been pumping out code like a mad scientist. I want to share some of the useful stuff I’ve built.

EventualTweet

I like to schedule tweets for the future. A lot. I use EventualTweet almost daily to send messages to other people, schedule link sharing-posts or just to remind myself to do stuff later in the day.

makeitpersonal

makeitpersonal started as a service for a friend to share his Last.FM playlists with the rest of his friends. If you go to that page right now you can enter your username and get a nicely formatted list back that you can send to other people. Here’s what I’ve listened to while writing this post.

Something that I haven’t publicized about this project yet is that you can query a service for fetching lyrics. A GET request to http://makeitpersonal.com/lyrics with the artist and title params will give you the song lyrics. You can use it like this:

curl "makeitpersonal.co/lyrics?artist=Placebo&title=Days%20before%20you%20came"

I also published a Gist with instructions for fetching lyrics in Unix that uses this service: https://gist.github.com/1549991

Right now I’m working on a feature to share annotated song lyrics with other people. It currently looks like this.

mdify

This is probably my favorite personal tool right now. It’s a simple command line utility to preview Markdown pages. I’m using it to preview this blog post, the gist I linked previously and even some of the emails I send. Using it inside Emacs is <3 <3 <3. You can read more about it at https://github.com/febuiles/mdify.

All of these projects are open source, you can find the code at my Github account. Let me know if you find them useful.