Introducing lil tom peep

lil tom peep is a new web application I wrote to fix a problem I had with web surfing. I hate having to manually check up on semi-static web pages like blog comment streams and firmware update pages (basically anything missing RSS).

Now I just submit the page url and my email address to lil tom peep and he does the checking for me. Pretty basic, but very useful to me.

ltp is powered by Sinatra. Check out the props page to see all the technologies involved. Possible future features include RSS-integration and a bookmarklet. Let me know if you have any feature requests or encounter any bugs while using the service. Enjoy!

ip2loc

ip2loc is a simple tool which visualizes location data for a given IP address using the Google Maps API. I created it for a few reasons:

1. Most sites that do this charge or are clunky
2. I wanted to write a simple application with Sinatra
3. It was a good excuse to sharpen my jQuery skills
4. Boredom

ip2loc is powered by Ruby, written in TextMate, and deployed with Passenger on DreamHost.