Today I m releasing an initial version of my latest tool, CurlyQ . It s a work in progress, though should be immediately useful to those who need it. I need your input on where it goes next, what s

Joel Esler, Sourcefire, Snort, Immunet, ClamAV, Apple, and Network Security. This is my blog.

As promised, I’ve updated Read2Text as a standalone binary using the Swift versions of Readability and HTML2Text. In the process I made it a whole new tool called Gather . You may recall that name

Send your podcast from YouTube to Anchor.fm

Downloading whole YouTube channels using the yt-dlp tool, with specifying video quality and format types. For a general run down and usage guide on yt-dlp go here. Go to the bottom for the full yt-dlp…

YouTube is great for music discovery. Here are 3 ways to convert your discovered YouTube music videos to your music app for regular listening.

The landmark web scraping case was bounced back to the Ninth Circuit by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Painstaking new techniques for archiving social media posts could provide crucial evidence in future prosecutions.

A bash script to check the HTTP status code of a bunch of URLs, for simple and portable uptime checking.

In xcode on OSX app, I can change the app icon in the dock by using this code: let image = NSImage.init(named: NSImage.Name(rawValue: "AltAppIcon")) NSApp.applicationIconImage = image But when I ...

The music industry is shifting up a gear and is now taking action against a German hosting provider. Three big labels are suing the provider Uberspace for hosting the website of the open source project youtube-dl. With the software, which is available on the code sharing platform Github, YouTube videos and music files can be… Continue reading Music industry is...

Journalists have used scrapers to collect data that rooted out extremist cops, tracked lobbyists, and uncovered an underground market for adopted children

A week ago, GitHub received a DMCA takedown notice regarding a program called youtube-dl. Their response has shattered the tiny amount of...