Monthly Archives: October 2007

Twitter’s Mojo Bubble

October 17, 2007 – 10:36 pm

Michael Gartenberg: “First, it’s another queue to check. … It looks like I could add Twitter into the flow of RSS feeds but do I really want to do that?“ No, you don’t want to do that. If you’re “checking your Twitter queue” – you’re doing it wrong. You should be using something like Twitteriffic or [...]

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Wine is Nicely Enabled

October 17, 2007 – 10:29 pm

Wine is Getting Good: “Anyone else notice lately how good Wine is getting?“ I haven’t checked Wine out in awhile, but I’m a big fan. I was using it to run Radio UserLand under Linux, about 5 years ago. (Wow, has it been that long?) I’ve kind of assumed that Wine would get [...]

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OPML reading lists in FeedMagick2

October 17, 2007 – 3:22 am

For anyone who’s interested: I’ve been hacking a little bit on FeedMagick2 again, with the latest addition being an OPML reading list feed blender. What’s an OPML reading list? Basically, it’s the same as as OPML export of a feed reader’s subscription list – only rather than doing a one-time import into [...]

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Beautiful Code

October 9, 2007 – 11:59 pm

Michael McCracken: “Once you get a piece of code to the point where you believe it works – it’s passing its tests – go back over it and edit it. That is, go back and edit it for clarity, flow, and style. Just as if it were an essay.“ This is something I just don’t hear [...]

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bookmarking outlier

October 9, 2007 – 12:18 pm

I’ve amassed 9681 bookmarks on del.icio.us as of right now. Quick napkin calculation: I post an average of 7 bookmarks a day, over my lifetime of 1353 days using the site. Within the next 45 days or so, I should reach 10000 bookmarks at this rate. I wonder if I should [...]

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