Using the post timestamps as seeds was really cool. Instantly reproducible results! Nice.
If I just “chose” the seed I’d obviously tweak to to ensure certain people (i.e. you!) don’t get the goods ;)
Seriously though: It’s funny you mention instantly reproducible results. I originally did datetime.strptime() and used that as the seed… but it was non-deterministic for some reason. Multiple runs gave different results. I couldn’t be bothered to figure out why so I just manually converted the date to a time stamp!
edit: It turns out hash randomisation also applies to datetime.