All about the Teutonic Knights

This post is not about coding, but, I had so much fun with this, I thought I'd share.

The history.  The imdb entry.  The film itself:

Whilst it's in Polish (and sadly lacks subtitles), it still is interesting to watch, and, for the most part, is quite self-explanatory... :-)

If all that is not enough Teutonics for you, there's also this.

(How did I come across this?  By listening to the 'Lesser Bonapartes' history podcast, in particular the episode about rump states.  {Probably the most giggly history podcast series ever})

Today is... 2 Prairial CCXXIII

The French Republican Calendar episode of 'Revolutions' covers fairly much every aspect of user interface design and every potential pitfall and foible possible.

In fact, I think Mike's podcast is probably the TL;DR of most UI  (and application) design books that are out here (and far more fun too).

Enjoy!

Ps.: I'm not sure why the designer eventually was guillotined, but, I'm also not overly surprised ;-D

How to grab every mp3 from a Feedburner page

My little Apple finally died[1] and the major loss was my collection of the entire History of Rome podcast, by Mike Duncan.  Oh noes!

Sadly, Feedburner doesn't provide a big zip file of all the episodes, which is understandable, since it would be huge.

I could hunt around for a browser extension that does a mass download, but this is quicker, safer and way more fun:

Save the above file to your 'history_of_rome' directory as 'hist.xml'

Preferably overnight(if your 'broadband' comes via the phone line...), in the bash shell do this:

$ grep -e "enclosure url=" hist.xml | sed -e 's/[^"]*"//' -e 's/".*//' | xargs wget

And hopefully, if all goes well, in the morning you'll have this:

FINISHED --2015-05-05 02:06:31--
Total wall clock time: 2h 26m 38s
Downloaded: 191 files, 2.0G in 2h 24m 49s (240 KB/s)

~/history_of_rome>

You say that this podcast is a little bit short for such a long story?  Well, there's lots more out there, but this is my second favourite series:

All 12 episodes of 'I, Claudius' as a handy playlist.

[1] And, after all this, I found that the Apple actually wasn't broken, but the USB port I plugged in for a recharge was.  ;-D