Hugo van Kemenade

January 2016 — June 2018 # To celebrate the release of Python 3.7 on 27th June 2018, here’s some statistics showing how much different Python versions have been used over the past two and a half years.

Three bots have been collecting words from Twitter for the past year.

Three bots have been collecting words from Twitter for the past year.

Here’s some quick charts of some of the words nominated for American Dialect Society 2015 Words of the Year PDF), data taken from a corpus of words talked about on Twitter (read more about them here), as collected by a trio of bots.

Three bots have been collecting words from Twitter for the past year.

David-Antoine Williams writes: What is the difference between a catch-all and a catch-phrase?

Strong Language, the swearing blog, recently wrote about Clusterboinks and clusterfornications: The children of clusterfuck.

EngLangBlog offered some man-words and asked for more.

Three bots have been collecting words from Twitter for the past year.

I wrote a Python script that searches Twitter for tweets containing “[X] is my new favourite word”.

Mobbler, the open-source Last.fm radio player and scrobbler for Symbian smartphones is five years old today!

In honour of Nokia Connects photography week, we have a guest post from the man behind this wonderfully spliced picture of the Naurissalmi strait in Helsinki.

Mobbler has now been in the Nokia Store for a year (not counting the previous stint under Symbian Horizon), so here’s an updated chart generated using Ovid.

According to Mabishu: After a lot of requests from Linux users, Spotify developers have integrated D-Bus support in version 0.4.8.282.

To scrobble the Nokia music player, Mobbler must be running in the background.

Here are some charts generated by Ovid showing the Symbian platform share for some applications in Ovi Store.

Android provides this very useful chart* for developers, making it very clear which platforms are in common usage, so developers can accurately target different platforms.

KErrNone 0 KErrNotFound -1 Unable to find the specified object KErrGeneral -2 General (unspecified) error KErrCancel -3 The operation was cancelled KErrNoMemory -4 Not enough memory KErrNotSupported -5 The operation requested is not supported KErrArgument…

Another amazing application for S60 phones!

These settings work for sending on the Nokia 6680, but not receiving… I used to be able to receive as well, but at least sending works and means I can use the “Send as email” option in things like Lifeblog, and use Opera or the phone’s built-in Web app to…

And here’s a freeware big clock for your Series 60 phone :)

After reading this and this and this I decided to knock up this dodgy prototype amazing application for S60 v2.x phones (but not v1.x or v3.x – check your version here.