Posts tagged ‘twitter’
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…
Stop using shortened URLs in tweets
August 31st, 2011 at 10:06 am by Dr. Drang
Twitter doesn’t want you to, and it’s changing to make you do what it wants. I am, of course, talking about third-party shorteners like bit.ly and goo.gl, not Twitter’s own t.co service. Twitter really likes t.co. Not only does it use it to automatically shorten long URLs like http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/08/twitters-shortened-links/, as of August 15 it’s been…
Embedded tweet improvements
August 26th, 2011 at 2:45 pm by Dr. Drang
In Monday night’s post about scrolling, I included this tweet of mine: I gave the Lion scrollbar visibility default a chance, but I like knowing where I am at a glance. http://t.co/XlR975c8:37 PM Wed Aug 17, 2011@drdrang Dr. Drang As you can see if you run your mouse over it, it’s not simply a screen…
Twitter spam again
August 19th, 2011 at 10:43 pm by Dr. Drang
When I added a simple spam-fighting addition to Dr. Twoot a couple of months ago, a couple of people wondered how effective it would be. So did I. It has just a couple of rules: A tweet is identified as spam if it’s from someone I don’t follow and it contains just my handle and…
