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Recently I had possibly the nerdiest conversation of my entire life. I woke up at 5:30 am because River (5 months old) thought it was morning. My brother-in-law, Brian, happened to be online and started the conversational seed to massive nerdery: October, Halloween, horror movies, and some zombie comics he has been reading. Also, I’ve [...]
I read something earlier this week about how bias plays a bigger role in your decisions than you know. It brought up a specific example of an experiment done, all with references and good stuff like that. I thought it’d be fun to recreate the experiment. But, you know, without all the proper science stuff. [...]
So I got crazy with the lookup function and google docs. It was fun though. View it here, and you can save a copy in your own google docs if you want to use it.
It’s way fun, if you put in 5000 XP, it’ll adjust your level appropriately, and all the stat/hp/etc bonuses [...]
Fill in the blank. I promise you it sucks.
PHP sucks.
Perl sucks.
Java sucks.
Ruby sucks.
Ruby on Rails especially sucks.
.NET sucks.
C++ sucks.
Python sucks.
While I do get quite a kick out of picking on my boss’s favorite, perl, I do recognize that each language sucks and each language doesn’t suck. Personally, you’ll probably never see me start a project [...]
Just packaged up a version 0.10 beta of phpitter. It’s really looking prettier. And now has a gtk notify plugin that looks much fancier than the libnotify plugin I had going.
It also does spell checking if you compiled php-gtk with –with-spell. And I’ve got some good timeouts set for pulling the timeline so the UI [...]
Well, I switched from GtkTextView’s to GtkHTML’s for the tweets and popup. This way it’ll handle hyperlinks for me. I was getting close to figuring out how to figure out which word someone clicked on in a GtkTextView, but this was way easier.
Since now hyper linking works, sending updates works, the reply/retweet/direct [...]
Last night I hacked at it some more. Here’s what it looks like now:
Ok, now see that message from @jimctc that says “@micah pic from the breeder. she arrives first weekend in may.” Check out what happens if I hover over @jimctc’s avatar for that message:
Also, here’s what the simpleLibNotifyNotice plugin does (note, [...]
Can’t stop fooling with this. GTK is a funny funny system. You have to know all the tricks to get things to layout right and capture the right events. Wish it was more intuitive.
This new cut of phpitter is much cooler. It looks better, updates the timeline every so often, saves/loads timeline data, will keep [...]
So… yeah. This was a fun Saturday morning. I wrote a gtk twitter client in php. Well… I wrote a proof of concept gtk twitter client in php.
The code is ugly and I’m sure has tons of issues, but it pulls your timeline and allows you to send updates. Check out [...]
Call it what you will: Black hat, bad, abusive, evil, wrong, illegal. There are many things that are greatly looked down upon in the online world of the internets. Some things are outright illegal, and others just annoying. In my 10 or so years of being in IT I’ve only had to [...]