March 2012
586 posts
Whatcha Readin' For?: Handy TextMate tips for... →
I use TextMate a lot when doing web development, and I absolutely love it. Some of my friends and colleagues also use TextMate, and I get questions like “what was that thing you did with the thing with the text” sometimes. Here, I thought I would document some of the ones I use most…
Pangeekery: Don't Occupy Sydney →
elomis:
At the moment in the US there is a collection of affiliated protests, centred on New York city. As with all “grass roots” protest movements, some of the protesters are unemployed or students who enjoy shows of unity and demands for change as a recreational sport. Some of them are people who have…
elastic threads: nvIt -- Chrome and Safari... →
elasticthreads:
Brett and I just released nvALT 2.1 with a lot of bug fixes, UI improvements, and some new features. Some of my favorite additions:
- TextMate style auto-pairing of matched characters like parenthesis, brackets, and double quotes.
- Shortcut (CMD-Shift-L) for Inserting [[Links]]
Read more about…
elastic threads: Put Your Mac's Caps Lock Key to... →
elasticthreads:
After reading about Google’s Cr-48 ChromeOS prototype netbook, I had two immediate reactions: 1. My Mac runs Chrome + 1000s of other applications. Why would I want to reduce that to just Chrome? 2. The Cr-48 has no Caps Lock key. Instead it has a web search key. Slap your left pinky against that…
elastic threads: Notational Velocity forked:... →
elasticthreads:
[Quick 10/22/10 update: there’s now user customizable themes, multiple note tagging, proper support for PPC machines, and more. Read about it here.
The correct version should be: Version 2.0 β3et (6.65) <—I’ll keep this line up to date.]
Like everyone else, I love Notational…
i'm chris eigner.: Genetic Programming 101 (Ruby) →
I took a machine learning course this quarter and had the chance to do some genetic programming. Given Ruby’s readability, it struck me as a bit odd that there weren’t more genetic programming tutorials written using it. I had a blast playing with the programs, so I set out to write a short…
Report pro-a-n-a.tumblr.com under tumblr content...
dyke-recovery:
A blog which attacks other’s on a painfully regular basis and encourages eating disordered behaviour should not have a place on tumblr.
destroy/dstorey: What are CSS Shaders? →
dstorey:
Adobe announced a proposal for CSS Shaders at Adobe Max two days ago. This was backed by both Opera and Apple, and the spec will be developed by the FX Task Force at the W3C. For those of you who are not aware, the FX task force is an elite band of ninjas’s chosen from the ranks of the CSS…
destroy/dstorey: The makeup of the Open Web stack →
dstorey:
The Open Web has never had as many capabilities as it has today. We’re seeing an explosion in new or updated specifications, and prototype and stable implementations to go with them. This blog post will look back as the platform we have had available (Called Open Web 0 here) and then looks forward…
Doctor Who Official on Tumblr: BBC America... →
doctorwho:
Today is the day for finding out things. Like that BBC America has a Doctor Who SMS Club, and also:
BBC America is having a Halloween Costume Contest!
Things to note:
1. Contest ends on October 18th, 11:59p EDT. (Plenty of time!)
2. Only open to U.S. residents 18 and older…
DiogeneX: On Market Share →
diogenex:
Android has overtaken Symbian smartphone operating system market share. Apple’s lead in tablets is plummeting (or not). These days news about mobile market share is rampant, and seemingly everyone wants to add their voice to the chorus of pundits discussing the numbers.
But let’s set…
My Dinner With Android: Dual wielding →
dinnerwithandroid:
She was cute.
Maybe too cute. When I leaned over to talk to her, I wouldn’t have been offended to hear another passenger mumble, “She’s out of your league, pal.”
But this wasn’t that sort of opening line. The girl sitting across from me on the train had a Samsung Galaxy S (something something, I…
Four months with Android: reflections, grievances...
dinnerwithandroid:
OR, The longest, most awkward dinner of my life
tl;dr version: I’m really glad to have an iPhone 4S.
(Note: this was written over multiple days, spaced weeks apart.)
I approached this experiment with a lot of questions, the primary of which was quite simple: why do people use Android? I had my own preconceived answers — they dislike Apple or couldn’t get an iPhone for one...
Secrets & Happiness of Digital Publishing:... →
digitalpublishing:
When submitting a digital magazine to either Apple’s App Store or Google’s Android Market, you need to supply App Icons and more artwork. Typically these icons include the homescreen icon and one icon for the market place. You provide these icons to the Viewer Builder.
A valid App Store app or…
Secrets & Happiness of Digital Publishing: Open... →
digitalpublishing:
This week, WoodWing, one of Adobes biggest competitor, made a big move: they released an open format for interactive publications, called “ofip”, and with that it is the first format dedicated to interactive digital publishing.
A format is called “open” when it’s standards and rules are…
Secrets & Happiness of Digital Publishing: Adobe... →
digitalpublishing:
You may have heard about the Adobe & WoodWing announcment earlier this month. Last week, Victor Cardoso (WoodWing’s Product Evangelist) gave a Webinar at WoodWing about the transition they are doing onto the DPS distribution system. You can watch the record of the recorded session. Mainly, it…
Secrets & Happiness of Digital Publishing:... →
digitalpublishing:
Scrollable Frames are great for scrolling a secondary text inside a longer article.
In my digital magazine DONE (available for iPad and Android, for free) I used them alot. I also added a fadeout effect on top and bottom.
Here is how:
creating the scrollable text frame as usual
put a
Dan K's Blog: A Modest Proposal for Warren Buffett →
dfkoz:
I have a modest proposal for Warren Buffett. After his New York Times Op-Ed became the talk of the town over the weekend, I got into a pretty vigorous debate with a few folks I know. “If he thinks it’s unfair that his secretary pays lower taxes than he does”, they posited, “then he should…
powered by hate: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine -... →
designislaw:
So my Tumblr has today been mostly arguing with idiots, and the feminism tag on twitter has been filled with a lot of garbage recently. I apologize, and I thought I’d offer something a little more positive. Something refreshing, just, something that honestly surprised me today. It was nice to…
How to reblog your own tumblr posts...
designerconfetti:
It seems to be impossible to reblog a post from your main tumblr account for example to another tumblr account, but it isn’t…
To do it, you just need to write it like following to your browser:
http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url=(your whole URL post here)
It should look for example like this:
...
Tumblr tricks...
designerconfetti:
When you want to link a special tumblr day, you can do it like this:
(yourtumblrname).tumblr.com/day/(year)/(month)/(day)
at the end it should look for example like this:
designerconfetti.tumblr.com/day/2010/08/07
The good is, that it shows up more than just the maximum 15 posts (when you have posted more on this day), but you don’t need to tag your posts to get this...
Design by Code: Introducing the Android UI... →
designbycode:
About a month ago, I tweeted a link to a teaser video that showed off an Android icon generation tool I was building. The goal of the tool was to simplify Android icon creation for developers that don’t have access to design resources.
Today, I’m happy to make this and a few other tools…
delbius: Rogue OAuth Apps: Like Vampires, You Must... →
delbius:
Tweet this!
As most of you reading this blog know, I lead Twitter’s Trust and Safety department. Two of my teams are API Policy and Spam. While these teams have a number of responsibilities, they also both work to find and suspend bad apps that appear on Twitter. Sometimes, though, bad apps…
Debacle Timeline: The Pratfall of Penny Arcade - A... →
debacle:
Help me fill this in. I’m trying to keep the language dry. If you have questions, here is a FAQ.
NOTE: To those of you just joining us, please don’t just read the first three links and then decide you’ve got the full story. The full story is complex and contains multiple points of view, not…
Lois Lane, Girl Reporter
deantrippe:
Here are some notes and images from Lois Lane, Girl Reporter, a pitch for a series of illustrated young adult novels I worked on a few years ago for DC Comics. Story by me, with considerable brainstorming help from my pal John Campbell, and art by Project: Rooftop fan favorite Daniel Krall.
My wonderful editor, Chris Cerasi, was a real champion of the series, which we codenamed...
d center baltimore: H2OMG →
dcenterbaltimore:
D CENTER @ MAP ANNOUNCES SECOND EXHIBITION, H2OMG Exhibition Dates: September 5, 2011 – October 6, 2011 Exhibition Reception: September 23, 2011, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. D center @ MAP announces H2OMG, its second exhibition in its storefront gallery at 218 Saratoga Street. H2OMG responds to and…
Mad Melvin - the angriest BBC local radio caller... →
davelee:
This hilarious clip comes from BBC Three Counties Radio this morning. I’m not sure we’ll be seeing Melvin at the Royal Wedding tomorrow, do you?
Or, in his words: “Yet some…. URGGGH!….Some….. OORHHH!”
Edit: Well this has gone a little bit, er, viral. Trying to get in touch with the 3CR team to see if they can do a follow up. Watch this space. Follow the show on Twitter: @jvsshow
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Dan Lewis: How I Grew My Email Newsletter From 0... →
danlewis:
I published the first issue of Now I Know on June 22, 2010. It went to 20 people. I knew most of them — a few others came in from, if I recall correctly, a Facebook post by Jimmy Wales, who I used to work for at Wikia. Only 12 people opened it — that’s high, at 60%, but low, at 12 people.
On…
