Hacks

Scraping Country Codes

For a recent project, I needed a list of all countries, their country codes, and an emoji for their flag. Two-letter alphanumeric country codes (following ISO 3166-1) are a common identifier for country names. Unfortunately, to download the official data set as CSV, you'll have to pay \$330

Hacks

Updating your GitHub status with ghstatus

I'm glad to announce the release of yet another command-line tool to make your life a little easier - at least if you're one of the few people that actively use GitHub's status feature: Let's get a round of applause for ghstatus,