Archive for the 'Automation' Category

Blog Comment Autofill Is Back (Greasemonkey Script)

My Blog Comment Autofill Greasemonkey script is back. (direct greasemonkey link)
In its first incarnation, you’d be on Digg, reddit, etc and the script would actually fill in your blog’s URL into the submission field!
Now, I check the meta generator tag, i.e. if you view source on this page you’ll see something like this in the […]

How to Upgrade WordPress across Multiple Blogs

First off, I keep my main WordPress installation in Subversion.
This does have the added drawback that all of my WP blogs will be out of date until I update my main WP Subversion trunk and svn up on the server(s). At the same time, updating X number of WordPress blogs by hand would be […]

13-Line Shell Script Votes for Mr. Splashy Pants 100s of Times

Sorry, Greenpeace, but apparently you may not have gotten the memo.
Apparently the weblog.greenpeace.org site is written in Rails?!? (Via curl: “Server: Mongrel 1.1″) Surely the method described below does not _actually_ submit 100s of counted votes!?!
Using my super 3r33t h@x0r skills, I spent 2 minutes writing a shell script that votes for our beloved […]

Poll Code Writers Are Lazy and Stupid

update: the title was just in jest so please don’t get too offended anyone =) upon thinking about this problem a little more, the solutions are all rather similar to the solutions for blog comment / social media spam. if you want to be 100% sure a human is voting, then you have […]

How to Automate (just about) Anything - Case Study 1: WordPress Subversion Change

One of the biggest things I regret in my technical career is not becoming more of a *nix ninja earlier.
Macs were always way too expensive, and not nearly as cool (in my circle) anyway, so getting one was never really an option. (and, it only would’ve helped once macs came with OS X)
So I was […]