February 2012
16 posts
Kickstarter - FTL: Faster Than Light →
I’m now a backer.
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Starting up Insanity again
So about a week ago I decided to “get serious” again about Insanity. I’d been starting and stopping on and off since last July. I just couldn’t keep hooked for longer than two weeks. I just lost motivation and interest in the workouts. I know they’re not supposed to be fun, per say, but I seemed to enjoy P90x a bit more when I did that back in 2010.
I did...
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Moment.js - Super sexy, all-things date/time, js... →
Yeah, I looked at the examples and thought, “Self, you should use all the things!” Yes, yes I should. Looks very handy if you have to do lots of date/time manip on your client side.
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Stop Paying your jQuery Tax →
Basically: defer loading jQuery to your footer, and create a small handler for $() calls to queue up those jQuery “ready” calls until jQuery is loaded.
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Yay, more to do lists! →
Clear was released yesterday/today, and I’ve been waiting for this app for about two weeks, back when I first heard it was coming.
I’m already in love with TeuxDeux, so I’m not really searching for something better. My workflow is pretty awesome with TD, so trying out another list manager is kind of a moot point, but Clear’s interface is so damn pretty. I think I’ll...
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Update: Tumblr jQuery JSONP issues
(Previous post: Tumblr jQuery JSONP issues)
Turns out I forgot one, crucial piece to the puzzle.
- jQuery, by default, appends “callback={some random callback method name}” to jsonp call urls
- Tumblr expects it to be “jsonp={some random callback method name}”
Changing my $.ajax() method to do that was a breeze and now my simple code is working. Ugh.
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Tumblr jQuery JSONP issues
Trying to pull down my blog info via jQuery’s $.ajax() method. I have a tumblr API key, and verified it’s working via curl. Trying to use jQuery to pull down the JSON data via JSONP calls is not working out so well.
The response is returned in JSON, but fails in Firefox and Chrome.
Firefox: https://skitch.com/cfurrow/8bspq/tumblr-templator
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Created a custom tumblr theme
Still some edges to soften, but it’s up.
Creating a theme for Tumblr is more difficult than it should be, and that was a big let down. To develop a theme locally you have to find strange measures to do so, and basically host a local dev site. Here’s what I did.
Downloaded TumblrThemr and set it up to run as a local web server. I use nginx.
Copy the default theme that comes with...
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Poor Miss Ariana
Hello Dear, I know this might come to you as a surprise, but please do accept it in good faith and treat as a matter of urgency with utmost confidentiality. I am Miss Ariana Hani from Khartoum,Sudan; North-Eastern Africa, now seeking political asylum in Dakar Senegal under the UNHCR as a refugee. I am searching for a true friend, kind and honest to stand as my foreign representative to help me...
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Finch - Another js routing thing →
I’m a sucker for new js routing things.
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Homebrew install issus (resolved)
I’ve been using Homebrew for a while now, and have enjoyed it’s simplicity and similarities to MacPorts.
Recently, after a bad OSX update (10.7.3), I had to reinstall OSX Lion from target mode, and then update via the combo-update above. Well, somewhere along the way something got overwritten, and I had to reinstall some apps and rejigger some settings. One of which, was ctags.
No...
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Replacing Google with Blekko
I decided to do a week-long switch from Google to Blekko as my primary search engine. I replaced my defaults in Chrome with Blekko and away I went.
TL;DR;
There are definitely some frustrating results returned where I instantly know that I’d get better results using Google (so I do), but on the whole for the majority of my searches Blekko is fine. I had the most issues with blekko when...
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Apps I'd have a hard time being without
The list
Evernote
MacVim (via Homebrew)
1Password
TeuxDeux.com
Chrome/Firefox
Git/Gitx
TextExpander
Dropbox
Alfred
Parallels
Time Machine
CrashPlan
iTerm
Skitch
Evernote
If you read my previous post you know why I can’t live without this tool. In case you didn’t, it’s because I use Evernote to track a majority of my day, to the point of being obsessive about it. I...