Peace, Love and C++

A while back I wrote some nodejs that mish-moshed email and web 2.0 long-poll action into a very ugly, but fairly up-to-date showing of debian changes. That is over on my server here.

The code’s fairly simple, so I also wrote a python consumer here.

Since it’s so simple, I’ve pasted it below, too.

Feel free to use (but please not abuse) my server :)

#!/usr/bin/env python

import time
import urllib
import json

service = "http://pault.ag:8080/tail"
lastts  = 0

def loop():
        global lastts
        while True:
                f = urllib.urlopen("%s?since=%s" % (service, str(lastts)))
                msgs = json.loads(f.read())
                for x in msgs['messages']:
                        print x['text']
                        if lastts < x['timestamp']:
                                lastts = x['timestamp']

loop()