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I wonder if there's something like irc it for Jabber?
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Age of Conan looks interesting, but I think I'm not so attracted to it because it's just so damn serious and grim.
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Thinking I'll soon stop redirecting decafbad.com to my accumulator and replace it with a simpler intro page with big buttons pointing at my big topics, maybe with a few teaser bits.
Project idea: Replace / rework my accumulator with a daily bucket fed from FriendFeed.
Accumulate a day's worth of FriendFeed droppings, archive by date in static files.
Leave the door open to replace FriendFeed with my own parts.
Copy FriendFeed's presentation for grouping and collapsing multiple successive updates for a given service.
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Looks like my adoption curve for this, yet another blogging tool, is falling off like usual. Maybe faster than usual. Not sure what that means yet.
Trying to read Shadow Unit, because I really love the concept of writing episodes for a TV series that never aired.
Part of the reason I love the concept of Shadow Unit is that I'm thinking about doing something similar myself.
But, I can't really get into it, because I'm just not into cop / profiler shows.
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So, like, if Twitter keeps going down, we're all going to have to talk to each other through blogs and IRC again. It's certainly a hard act to follow.
Holy crap, the new Penny Arcade game is so completely made of win.
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Thinking a bit about creative constraints. 140 characters on Twitter, 1024 on Ficlets.
Writing feels a lot more considered and tight - I wonder how that could be applied to longer works?
I know this is not a new idea, but it's lately novel to me.
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i've got a text editor on my Centro. So, I might try maintaining a mobile bucket.
Apropos of my US$0.02 on Markdown yesterday, an app idea occured to me:
GreaseMonkey script that uses Showdown to turn all <textareas> into Markdown fields, like I did for hCal awhile ago.
Yesterday, I managed to write something longer than the usual quick thought, about Markdown.
I think it really pushed the usefulness of this thing, and belongs in a full-on blog post after lots of editing.
I met Rohit Khare for the first time at SHDH yesterday. Upon my being introduced, he recognized my name from the SHDH 25 who's who list—mainly because of how unreadable this bucket composition was.
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At SuperHappyDevHouse 25 today, hopefully getting a little writing done in between wandering around mingling and playing Rock Band.
Now having written this whole thing on Markdown, I've succeeded in entirely Yak Shaving my way away from writing in Word thus far.
I'm using Markdown to write in this Bucket. I consider it crucial to actually getting any writing done online.
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Considering a trip to SuperHappyDevHouse 25 tomorrow.
I should probably try working on writing there.
But I might also work on this bucket and a few other things.
And I really should try to mingle a bit and make a few last connections with people before we move.
Today was a day of Mozilla work from home, followed by an evening of book work from home.
I feel like I've read every line of mootools-trunk-1553.js.
I've probably missed a bunch of things.
On the other hand, I think I found a few bugs too - I wonder if and how I should file those with that community.
Firefox 3.0 RC1 dropped today!
Real Synthetic Audio is one of my favorite music podcasts evar.
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Attached a patch to a bug today, and watched it get announced in an IRC channel. Like, in public. This'll take some getting used to.
As seen on Twitter, I biked to work today. It was only about 11 miles from Santa Clara to Mountain View, but that was enough for me.
But, it wasn't too much for me. I've only got about a month left out here in CA, but I wonder if I might just keep this up.
Oh yeah, and I wore this snazzy Firefox cycling jersey. I felt at once silly and like a superhero.
Once upon a time, about 5 or 6 years ago if I recall, I quit smoking cold turkey. Having done that, I feel like I can do damn near anything sometimes.
The trick is remembering that feeling.
And the other trick—as I find it currently difficult to rise from the couch with muscles overused through 22 miles of bike riding today—is not to overdo it.
Seems like Twitter is down again. Makes me happy I have a bucket.
I need to collect bucket thoughts in order to compose a long-form blog post explaining and introducing the thing. Maybe it'll happen under this bullet.
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Thinking about writing a proper long-form blog entry about our having bought a house in Michigan.
Thank you, Akismet:
I'm hoping to make this the Summer of Skein.
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Someday, I'm going to explain what this bucket is about. Prerequisite to that is figuring out what it's about. A few quick notions, though:
For me, at least, perceptible interface + laziness threshold = weblog silence
Dave Winer's OPML Editor has been the only tool in recent memory to keep me publishing thoughts for any respectable stretch.
My favorite word processor, once upon a time, was WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS.
I always did love "Reveal Codes"
No me gusta mucho el WYSIWYG.
I keep thinking I want a Psion PDA. They seem to have nice workable keyboards. I miss my 8086 palmtop with Microsoft Works and a sunlight-viewable greyscale screen.
Something else I want to do things with:
Comments were working in Firefox. Just checked in Safari and found things broken there. Can't be bothered to try MSIE yet.
To emphasize the notional units here, I've tried especially styling first-level bullets. I can't remember if MSIE is happy with this particular CSS selector yet. If not, tough.
Tagging per bullet or line in this thing would be interesting at some point, too.
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I added the bucket to my accumulator, which should be interesting to watch when the "final" version of each day's bucket shows up in the feed.
At some point, I want to return to that accumulator and implement the custom feed filtering stuff I meant to do. That way, I can offer feeds that gather:
Time soon to check this bucket stuff into SVN, since it's grown to about a half-dozen scripts and templates. There's some content accumulated, too.
Tossed in some Haloscan comment links next to the titles. I'm also thinking about switching to Disqus if I can find a clean way to integrate.
Hmm. I wonder how hard it would be to tell blosxom to mind the creation date and not modification date on these entries?
touch-based hackery to sort this kind of thing out, years ago.Have a passing thought that I might convert everything from my OPML blog into entries for this bucket. They're very, very similar in spirit.
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Nothing much dumped here today - I spent pretty much the whole day finishing the third-to-last chapter of the book.
So, I'd thought that the upload script was working, but it was failing on the SSH auth part of the rsync. Seems to be working again now.
Since I end up using a lot of the same links repeatedly, some sort of link palette or persistent link notepad would be nice.
Still thinking a feed-to-markdown thing would work nicely for copying over links to things I've bookmarked, made favorite, or whatever.
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More things to remember to play with:
Oh hey, my laptop's on PDT time and my server's on UTC time. That'll affect Blosxom date headers a bit, ugh.
Okay, so I slapped together a quick CSS theme and an rsync-based uploader running every 10 minutes. It's live, after a fashion.
I've also hacked the feed not to include the most recent entry that I'm editing right now. That's important, and hopefully I'll explain soon.
There's not much to this thing yet besides Blosxom and a handful of shell scripts that:
Keeping it stupidly simple for now. Maybe I'll keep using it.
Thinking of borrowing my Haloscan comments integration from my OPML blog and trying it here too.
Also thinking of trying Disqus, but not sure it lends itself well to this thing.
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Since I'm walking distance from Google now, I should see who I know over there who might want to share a table for lunch.
Hitting the home stretch on writing my part of Professional JavaScript Frameworks. The first half or so went pretty well, but the last month or so has brought a legendary number of disruptions. I'm hoping to write about them all soon.
Once finished with the book, I hope to have a brief period of getting my shit together before starting to do serially enthusiastic things again.
I'm also yak shaving and procrastinating a bit in this home stretch, trying to think of sufficiently interesting things to say about what's been happening with me and what it feels like to be a newbie at Mozilla.
There's a lot of awesome here at Mozilla that's making me feel the need to step up again.
More stuff I want to do things with:
Been reading Let's Tell a Story Together. Here's a goal: Complete at least one work of interactive fiction per month.
Wondering if scheduling some serial enthusiasms with deadlines over the summer and fall might help me get some interesting things done. Like:
Be careful using images hosted on my site. You might get nipples.
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I hadn't realized before how close the relationship was between Mozilla and Google. We have the same snacks, and I can have the famous free (and tasty) lunch and dinner over there.
Also on the Google campus, lots of awkwardly piloted blue granny bikes with mud fenders and MacBook Pros in metal handlebar baskets. Doesn't pay to be a pedestrian when a dozen or so of those go by on the sidewalk.
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It's kind of weird starting work for a company where almost everything I'm starting to learn, install, and work on are all already open source.
I have a list of things brewing in my head that guy I want to be when I grow up would be doing interesting things with:
Just when I was thinking I wish I had a command-line tool to look at what Time Machine was doing, behold it appears!
If ever I turn this thing into a web app, I'll think about making a textarea work like Vim
So I'm just going to start writing this blog on my laptop using Blosxom and see if I actually manage to capture some ideas, even if only I'm reading them for now.
This thing isn't going to be solved by software - at least not at first and not ever entirely. To get it going, I'm going to just open a Vim window and start spewing into a text file and let Blosxom feed from the directory.
Is "bucket" a good name for this thing? I keep thinking I want to come up with some coffee-based pun for it that's not yet been used by a Java project.
Code so far, in a midnight crontab:
BASE=$HOME/Documents/bucket/entries;
NOW=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
NOW_FN=$BASE/`date +%Y/%m/%d-%H_%M_%S.txt`;
NOW_DIR=`dirname $NOW_FN`;
mkdir -p $NOW_DIR;
mv $BASE/now.txt $NOW_FN;
echo "bucket for $NOW" > $BASE/now.txt
echo "" >> $BASE/now.txt
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