Seriously, is this interesting? I mean, the top-like programs maybe useful (although I'm a browser man, and I think that keep pinging the sites each 30 sec. isn't polite at all.), but how these two simple programs were made... Come on! The net if full of articles about how much more interesting pieces of code were made or why they were made this way! I think mainly of kernels and HA systems, but not these.
Downvote me, but can you explain me why you find this article interesting? (And my comment offending...)
Not everyone here is an expert programmer.
stop with the wa wa wa... this guy did something cool and fun that some people find interesting.
why are there always haters pulling people down? stop hating.
If anyone was actually curious how these scripts worked the .py files were right there... Open in an editor instead of running through Python. Not exactly a secret.