I believe that all code monkeys (should) strive to be the best that they can be. Part of doing so is adapting your own process to maximize productivity and to make things easier for yourself. This is just a spur-of-the-moment post about some of the specific things I have discovered/changed in my few months at Translate.org.za that has had a big influence on the way that I develop software.

After being made administrator of Translate.org.za's 19-odd mailing lists, I found the moderation of all the spam we get way too time-consuming (or rather time-wasting). To remedy this I have created a simple mechanize-based Python library (Mailmanman) to retrieve and discard messages from multiple mailing lists.

It's still a very young project, but it's already saving me a lot of time!

Give it a try and let me know what you think.