Posts tagged ‘blogging’
Sidebar affiliate links
May 6th, 2013 at 11:45 pm by Dr. Drang
If you’re reading this on the site rather than through an RSS reader, you’ll see that the sidebar over on the right has changed. Gone are the Flickr photos, which I hadn’t updated since the fall, and the tag cloud, which I doubt that anyone used. In their place are affiliate links to Amazon, the…
RSS subscriber counting in a sane language
April 30th, 2013 at 10:57 pm by Dr. Drang
Recently, both Gabe Weatherhead and Marcelo Somers have tried to use this shell script to get subscriber counts for their RSS feeds. And it failed for both of them. The reason it failed (I think) is because of how it divides subscriptions into different types, counts each type, and then adds the types together. On…
Quarterly quiverings
April 24th, 2013 at 12:02 am by Dr. Drang
Today is that demisemiannual day in which Apple bloggers set aside their normal concern for fonts, rounded rectangles, and skeuomorphism and gather ’round the conference call to hear the latest financial pronouncement from the grandees of Cupertino. And as the great men speak in numbers that require exponential notation, the bloggers take to their keyboards…
Parsing comments
January 16th, 2013 at 9:34 pm by Dr. Drang
Frequent commenter Aristotle Pagaltzis and I had a brief discussion today about comments in baked blogs. We agree that Disqus, which seems to be the go-to system for people who are moving to a baked blog and want to maintain comments, is out of step with the general idea behind static blogging. It’s a service…
Local archive of WordPress posts
January 14th, 2013 at 11:50 pm by Dr. Drang
I wouldn’t be surprised to find myself jumping on the baked blog bandwagon. Everybody’s doing it. If I do, the first thing I’ll need is a collection of all my previous posts, downloaded to my local machine and saved in a directory structure that matches the URL structure WordPress has been presenting to the outside…
Lucre
January 11th, 2013 at 9:43 pm by Dr. Drang
In the most recent Crossover episode, Dan Benjamin and Christina Warren ganged up on poor Brett Terpstra and sort of berated him for not charging people to use all of his scripts and services. I didn’t think it was fair for them to force Brett to explain himself when all he’s doing is what lots…
What Apple’s working on
January 9th, 2013 at 8:09 am by Dr. Drang
For the benefit of journalists, bloggers, and tech pundits of all stripes, here’s a list of products Apple is currently working on: A smaller, cheaper iPhone. A larger iPhone. An iPhone with NFC. A larger iPad. A cheaper iPad A wearable iOS device. Macs that run on ARM processors. iPhones and iPads that run on…
Google lucky links in BBEdit
January 7th, 2013 at 7:40 pm by Dr. Drang
Last summer, I wrote a couple of scripts for creating Markdown reference-style links in BBEdit. One of them was for new links, the other was for reusing a link that’s already in the file. What I didn’t do, for reasons that aren’t clear to me, was write scripts for adding links from selected text via…
Cool and not
January 1st, 2013 at 10:57 am by Dr. Drang
I’ve been an RSS subscriber to Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site for ages. It’s like Shawn Blanc and Stephen Hackett’s Tools and Toys (and was probably the inspiration for it), but with articles submitted by readers and a list of tools covering a much broader scope. So broad, in fact, that I doubt I read…
WordPress 3.5 and the deathly auto-embeds
December 28th, 2012 at 10:18 pm by Dr. Drang
A few days ago I was searching my site for something and landed on this page about archiving tweets with IFTTT. It didn’t have what I was looking for, but as I was looking through it, I saw that the extract of my archive was formatted wrong. Instead of looking like this, it looked like…
