Monthly Archives: July 2008

using Twitterrific with identi.ca

July 18, 2008 – 5:56 pm

Since identi.ca has introduced support for the Twitter API, switching Twitterrific over seems to be as easy as entering this command in a Terminal window: defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific baseUrl -string ‘identi.ca/api’ The command to switch back is the following: defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific baseUrl -string ‘twitter.com’ You’ll also need to restart Twitterrific after each of these to see the change [...]

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date-based pagination

July 17, 2008 – 2:16 pm

Here’s a small idea I’ve not yet had the chance to try out on a large scale: Time-based pagination in lieu of page-number-based pagination for personal content – ie. blogs, bookmarks, status updates, etc. (You know, User Generated Content except I dislike the term.) Page numbers change over time, while time-based URLs are stable. [...]

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Queue everything and delight everyone

July 4, 2008 – 3:17 pm

This is a blog post I’ve had simmering in my brainmeats for well over a year or two. I’m suddenly inspired to break blog-radio-silence and get it out of my head. From Let the microblogs bloom – RussellBeattie.com: Once this is widely accepted (and I’m sure there are many that would argue with me), the thing [...]

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on what should I hack next?

July 3, 2008 – 8:15 pm

I know this isn’t LiveJournal, but I just found what looks like a decent poll plugin for WordPress. So, I’ll try it out and solicit your opinion all at once: [poll id="2"]

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Why I’m playing with Laconica

July 3, 2008 – 4:32 pm

I just posted a quick writeup on Laconica installation. But, beyond the how, there’s the why. As I mentioned in that entry, I’ve started and neglected at least two attempts at building a distributed Twitter clone. That’s mostly been a function of how busy I’ve been; how long I screwed around with [...]

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Getting Laconica up and running

July 3, 2008 – 3:21 pm

Update, 30 Sep 2008: You don’t want to follow the directions on this page—instead, leave this page and read this: http://laconi.ca/darcs/README At one point, very early on in Laconica-time, this blog post offered useful information on getting Laconica up and running. But since then, my time has taken me away from playing with Laconica [...]

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