<story><title>Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes</title><url>https://github.com/cantino/huginn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Good stuff, although I&apos;m not a Ruby user. Tools like this should be much more widespread. Code Is Bad because you can&apos;t write code without a minimum level of vocabulary and syntax, and that excludes a lot of people. True, code offers the most flexibility, but 99% of the time people don&apos;t need all that flexibility and want to accomplish fairly straightforward tasks - which is why GUIs are the norm. With GUIs and visual network design, users select from a palette of what&apos;s available and can connect components together without wasting time on syntax.&lt;p&gt;The oft-repeated cry that &apos;everyone should learn to code&apos; is wrong, wrong, wrong. It&apos;s like telling a kid to learn CAD and use a makerbot instead of providing them with a Lego set. Coding is great when you want to make a procedural &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt; generator. If you want to make something specific, then coding often imposes an annoying and unnecessary layer of abstraction. For example, you can write music and/or perform sound synthesis in a superbly powerful language called CSound, but only a tiny number of academic masochists bother to do so. Commercial DSP engineers write in C or assembler, commercial sound designers use Max or Reaktor, much as most electronic engineers use SPICE rather than describe their circuits in code.&lt;p&gt;In short, keep up the good work!</text></comment>
<story><title>Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes</title><url>https://github.com/cantino/huginn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jfim</author><text>Interesting project. Were you aware there&apos;s also an unrelated project called Hugin[1]?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_(software)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_(software)&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>