Category Archives: asides

Simple, short statements of thought — previously “quickies”

The more things change…

September 2, 2008 – 12:46 am

So, in anticipation of hopefully carving out time to write more article-length entries like my last one on Ubiquity, I’ve revamped the design on this blog and updated the colophon. I’m also hoping to post more short entries as well, and get this place revived again in general. Let me know what you [...]

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delicious 2.0 legacy bookmarklet fix

August 2, 2008 – 6:34 pm

As you’ve probably seen by now, Delicious 2.0 has launched. It’s an all new design and the whole thing has been rewritten from the ground up. Most of the gripes I’ve seem like general dislike of change—which actually attests to the gargantuan effort put forth to reimplement the original from scratch in a [...]

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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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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:

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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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Putting the Sexy into Firefox Theme Browsing

June 16, 2008 – 12:07 pm

As mentioned back in week 3, I’d started work on bug 419647 to “add a sexy theme browser” to addons.mozilla.org. Well, I’m not sure about my success in imbuing it with the required sexiness, but it’s at least been noticed by someone. :)

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amazing visitors

February 1, 2008 – 12:56 am

And I’m amazed that people seem to still visit this blog, despite the near-complete inactivity. That reminds me, I really should do something with that MyBlogLog API sometime — I’m totally digging what Kent Brewster is doing with it.

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