Python Lifestream

The last few days I had some time to create a lifestream, as you can find some here and there.

It was actually pretty simple thanks to Mark Pilgrim’s Universal Feed Parser. I simply stuffed all my personal feeds into a dict, including the source description for different styles, text,…; did the feed parsing, collected all entries, sorted them and wrote them to an html file (I was a bit shy about an online solution due to some speed, performance and privacy concerns - at least not everybody can see my virtual-personal actions for every second of my life).

All in all the hardest part was getting that damn thing running on Dreamhost via a cronjob (mainly because I’m using my own version of Python, own modules,…).