MeFi Projects

I've been playing around with this API that I was making for kind of a joke Metafilter-filter extension (I have since shelved the filterer). Since I'm not planning on finishing Metafilter-filter, I wanted to still do something with the API, so I've hooked it up to this website! [more inside]
posted by samuelfullerth on Jul 16, 2018 - 4 comments

Magically translate AskMe song recommendations into Spotify playlists (it takes a minute or two). [more inside]
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? on Nov 27, 2016 - 5 comments

The exports of Metafilter are numerous in amount. One thing they export is Simpsons quotes, or as the Indians call it, “memes”. Another famous Indian was “Crazy Horse”. In conclusion, Metafilter is a land of contrast. Thank you. [more inside]
posted by maryr on Oct 17, 2014 - 3 comments

Our UFO mutant vehicle, The Mothership took part in the destruction of The Alien Siege Machine at Burning Man 2014. [more inside]
posted by bobdow on Sep 5, 2014 - 0 comments

I made a mock up of the proposed tartan (a jokey pony suggestion for mod uniform in meta talk) [more inside]
posted by titanium_geek on Oct 5, 2011 - 26 comments

I decided to teach myself some python and CGI. This is what came of it. It is a single serving page that delivers a markov chain of every deleted post's title, plus a markov deleted reason and some text from my comments made into a fake post description. In later versions, I may scrape deleted post descriptions so it's less disjointed than it is, but I don't want to think about how long it would take to scrape every deleted post, and if it could be done in a server-friendly fashion (I haven't done any back of the envelope math to see how it goes). [more inside]
posted by mccarty.tim on Aug 4, 2011 - 14 comments