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Opera’s latest feature, implemented as a Firefox extension within a week!
Greasemonkey script to fix one of my pet peeves — W*nk*rs wh* ast*risk sw**r-w*rds. If you’re not willing to say “fuck”, saying “f*ck” isn’t any more genteel, you f**ker.
Bez won’t be appearing with the Happy Mondays at Coachella this weekend. What’s the point in seeing them, then? Bez *was* the Happy Mondays.
Simple easy-to-get-started programming tutorial, based upon Ruby and Mozilla. Written by “Why the Lucky Stiff”. The “Hackety Manifesto” is worth reading.
Project Honey Pot announce a blacklist for IP addresses known to comment spam. This could be easy to integrate with a Django middleware…
Interesting attempt by the City of Boston to encourage hybrid taxis — They’ll get to cut to the front of the taxi queue at Logan Airport. Hybrid car owners get “preferred parking” too.
For $5, PayPal will give you a SecurID-type keyfob to make it much harder for anyone to penetrate your account. I’ve been carrying mine for a couple of months now.
Project Honey Pot’s traps are now presenting spiders with forms that resemble comments/guestbooks/forums to try to gather some data on comment spamming. If you have a web site, it’s well worth installing the honeypot (or linking to a QuickLink) to help the cause.
Holsters to keep your MooCards pristine prior to handing them out.
Simon Willison’s OpenID consuming middleware for Django. I’ll probably have a stab at mixing this with my blog comments shortly.
Since 99% of what I write here is now in the category of “links” rather than posts, and at the prodding of Mike, I’ve added the ability to comment on links on the site.
Turned out to be about 2 new lines of code and minor templatery tweaks (Thank you Django!)
Go crazy, gang. Feedback-me-do!
Day-long photo project on May 5th to create a book and “sponsored event”.
25 years ago today, the ZX Spectrum was unleashed by Sir Clive. And now, let’s pause for a quick Manic Miner session in celebration.
“But for now: let all just pretend for one moment that Coda is so 100% pefect that this page is literally useless.”
Panic’s newest app is aimed squarely at web-devs, attempting to roll “all” the stuff you need to build a website into one app. Looks interesting — I’m definitely guilty of needing about 7 windows open to do web development (a couple of TextMates, Firefox, Safari, a terminal or two). It’ll be interesting to see if this can bring it all together for me.
Piss-poor information design from the MBTA. "Downtown Crossing", the station that links the Red, Orange and Silver lines, is abbreviated to the meaningless "DNTN XING" on this service map. (Spotted on the wall at Copley Station)
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.
