Posts tagged ‘blogging’
New Blackbird.py for embedding tweets
January 12th, 2012 at 11:45 pm by Dr. Drang
If you have access to the NewNewNew Twitter (as I did for about a day several weeks ago, but haven’t since), you’ll find a button that’ll give you the HTML code necessary to embed any given tweet in your blog or webpage. This is a big improvement on the common way of showing a tweet,…
Beating the spread
December 19th, 2011 at 10:15 pm by Dr. Drang
I have a weakness for parenthetical comments. Usually they’re not in parentheses—my real penchant is for dashes—but whatever punctuation I use, I love to shoehorn extra comments into my sentences. And ever since I adapted Lukas Mathis’s popup footnote JavaScript to work here, I’ve been sticking footnotes into almost every post. The problem with footnotes…
Branding
December 5th, 2011 at 11:53 pm by Dr. Drang
Three things I remember fondly about Spy magazine: That it always referred to Donald Trump as a “short-fingered vulgarian.” The “Separated at Birth” feature, which spawned two books and was probably its most famous continuing piece. The “Logrolling in Our Time” feature, which chronicled the mutual masturbatory reviews and cover blurbs authors gave to each…
Craft
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:35 pm by Dr. Drang
Generally speaking, I’m in favor of celebrating the spirit of amateurism; that we should make and do things for ourselves rather than always relying professionals and retailers. Even if our results aren’t perfect, the skills we develop in doing for ourselves are important in making us well-rounded humans. I’m no fan of Robert Heinlein’s politics,…
Your writing style has been surprised me
November 16th, 2011 at 5:30 pm by Dr. Drang
I wouldn’t have comments on the site if it weren’t for Akismet, which does an excellent job of filtering out the spam. But it isn’t perfect, and today I noticed a spam comment that got through the filter and had to be reclassified by hand. After telling WordPress that the comment was spam, I clicked…
A word about sponsors
September 19th, 2011 at 8:20 pm by Dr. Drang
If you’ve visited my site in the past couple of weeks rather than reading through RSS, you’ve noticed both a change in the layout and the inclusion of ads. And you’ve probably guessed that they’re not unrelated. I’ve wanted to increase the width of the sidebar for some time but didn’t do it because people…
Caching out
September 9th, 2011 at 11:25 pm by Dr. Drang
I can’t say that it’s happened every day, but more days than not over the past week or two, this site has become unavailable. Sometimes I’ve noticed it myself, sometimes a reader has tweeted me about it. I know it’s not because of traffic, but beyond that I have no idea of the cause. I…
Evergreen
September 3rd, 2011 at 10:19 pm by Dr. Drang
The battery in one of the emergency lights in our office died a couple of weeks ago. We have five sets of emergency lights (those are the small lights that go on when the power goes out so you can see your way to an exit), and none of the batteries have been changed in…
Footnote popup interference
August 20th, 2011 at 11:30 pm by Dr. Drang
Last week I saw this announcement, written by Hans Petter Eikemo and retweeted by John Siracusa: @siracusa You can now read footnotes in in peace. http://t.co/H3ZySKU (Announcing the Footnotify Chrome and Safari extension)10:57 AM Tue Aug 16, 2011@hpeikemo Hans Petter Eikemo Eikemo is the developer of Footnotify, a Chrome and Safari extension for showing footnotes…
Scramble
August 19th, 2011 at 9:22 am by Dr. Drang
I woke up this morning realizing that David Sparks was going to link here today. The top post on the blog, the first thing David’s fans from Macsparky and Mac Power Users were going to see, was a post about hotel showers. Not putting my best foot forward. Now, a smart blogger, a focused blogger,…
