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Various open-source bits and pieces by Evan McLean.
Table of contents
BDay: The super simple birthday and anniversary reminder program.
Erudite: Download articles from Instapaper or Pocket, convert them to an appropriate format such as EPUB or MOBI, and add them to your Calibre ebook library.
Evlib Java: A collection of reusable tools and utilities that I found I was often re-implementing in different Java projects.
In Brief: The miscellaneous bucket for other small projects.
The super simple birthday and anniversary reminder program.
BDay is a simple program to help you track birthdays and anniversaries. It runs when you start or log in to your computer, displays any events that are coming up, and then exits when you click OK. It does not hang around in the system tray or as a background process taking up your computer’s resources. If there are no events to be displayed, then you wont even see BDay run.
Erudite will download articles from Instapaper or Pocket, convert them to an appropriate format such as EPUB or MOBI, and add them to your Calibre ebook library. It is a command-line driven tool.
A collection of reusable tools and utilities that I found I was often re-implementing in different Java projects.
Highlights include:
and plenty more.
See the javadoc for all the details, source and binary downloads available via github.
Released under a BSD style license.
clementinemonitor: Monitors what is currently playing in your Clementine music player, by hooking into the relevant dbus signals to detect state change.
timeline: Shell script that collects screen captures and (optionally) webcam captures and builds a daily time-lapsed video of the day’s activity.
Evan is a computer programmer, software architect, application developer or whatever you want to call it. Most of the time he just says, “I work with computers.” When he is contracting he trades as McLean Computer Services.
Evan likes lots of open source things like Linux, and runs Arch Linux on his main computer at home, although he tries not to be smug about it. He also develops software for Windows as well.
You can find Evan on Mastodon where he describes himself as a “software developer and wry observationist.”
Evan, along with his spousal overunit live in Melbourne, Australia with two children, two cats, one guinea pig, and one dog, who wrote this page.
Evan’s professional site, for when he is contracting.
An informal place to chuck up stuff on the web that he finds interesting, be it funny pictures, or his own articles and pet projects.