Posts tagged ‘twitter’
Blackbird.py and background images
January 29th, 2012 at 11:42 pm by Dr. Drang
In his comment on last night’s post about that fraction with the interesting decimal representation, Matthew McVickar pointed out a bug in my system for displaying tweets: I’m curious about the background in that embedded tweet of mine. My Twitter profile background is solid blue, and I don’t have a background image set. Looking up…
My life as a Twitter spammer
January 28th, 2012 at 9:52 am by Dr. Drang
Something weird is going on with Twitter’s shortened links. I don’t know how it’s happening, but there must be several people on Twitter who think I’m using fake accounts to spam them with links to one of my posts. I get many visits from people following links from the t.co domain, Twitter’s own link shortening…
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,…
Tweeting images
January 7th, 2012 at 10:02 am by Dr. Drang
Back in August, I added some code to my personal Twitter client, Dr. Twoot, that allowed it to display tweeted images inline. This ability is limited to pictures that use Twitter’s “native” image system, which includes the image data as a tweet entity. This isn’t as nice as having hooks to display images from all…
Fortunate tweets
December 28th, 2011 at 9:27 pm by Dr. Drang
Earlier this month I read a couple of things that made a connection in my head and turned into this little program. As best I can tell, it has absolutely no value other than to give me something to do while sitting in airports and on planes. A perfect project for the week between Christmas…
Regexes, BBEdit, and Twitter screen names
December 22nd, 2011 at 8:41 pm by Dr. Drang
I found another bug in Dr. Twoot today. A pretty embarrassing one, given the context in which I found it. Here’s what my Twitter timeline looked like when I opened Dr. Twoot this morning: For some reason, the screen name for @bbedit_hints wasn’t turned into a link, only the @bbedit part was. It wasn’t too…
Best product review
December 22nd, 2011 at 9:20 am by Dr. Drang
Much talk on Mac blogs this week about product reviews, strong opinions, and the journalists/blogger/fanboy division. I was reminded of that when this popped up in my Twitter stream just a few minutes ago. It is, I believe, the best product review I’ve ever seen. Have acquired and used @LeapCard. Worked smoothly, totally hassle-free so…
Twitter replies and JavaScript filtering
December 20th, 2011 at 9:03 pm by Dr. Drang
According to its Git history, I added a Reply to All button to Dr. Twoot back in September. Because I’m all clever and mathy and shit, the button I added for this looks like an upside-down A, which is the math symbol that means for all. It works like the Reply to All feature of…
Hashtags and water coolers
December 19th, 2011 at 8:16 am by Dr. Drang
My heart sank as I listened to the most recent Hypercritical. Late in the show, John Siracusa decided to follow up on some things Dan Benjamin and John Gruber had said about Twitter in The Talk Show episode from earlier in the week. He’s going to say everything I wanted to blog about, I thought.…
Have you seen this tweet?
December 11th, 2011 at 9:44 pm by Dr. Drang
I was cleaning up my nightstand this afternoon and tweeted this from my phone: I knew that iPhone box would come handy some day. “Other stuff” collector in my nightstand. 1:22 PM Sun Dec 11, 2011@drdrang Dr. Drang Kinda dull, but whatever. Thing is, when I checked Tweetbot a while later, that tweet was nowhere…
