September 2008
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IndexOptions HTMLTable
Quixotically, I continue to apply my husk.org style to the things nobody looks at, rather than the things everyone does. The latest victim is the neglected husk.org/code, which now sports a fancy look, courtesy of a little HTML and the following in a .htaccess file:
IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble
IndexOptions HTMLTable
IndexOptions SuppressDescription
IndexOptions NameWidth=*
HeaderName...
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JavaScript Engines and the IE Hegemony
Another day, another JavaScript performance increase. This time, it’s the WebKit team, with the somewhat ludicrously named SquirrelFish Extreme, which manages a tenfold speed increase on Safari 3’s JSKit engine, apparently.
Oddly, it seems as if most of the work involved has been done under the auspices of the Summer of Code, Google’s programme to get college students involved...
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Vocal Grumblr
Tumblr has a nice API (for reading anyway) that lets you get posts as JSON. Unfortunately, you can’t filter by tag, and per-tag pages don’t have RSS or Atom feeds of their own.
Vox has a nasty heavy Atom API for reading which doesn’t seem to do JSON, but it does filter by tag, and per-tag pages have feeds of their own.
Sigh.
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Android at Google Developer Day London
As part of the keynote of Google’s Developer Day in London, Mike Jennings ran a demo of Android on prototype hardware. (In fact, it may have been the first public demo of such in Europe.) Some notes:
It works, and not slowly.
The name of the device manufacturer was covered in tape.
The browser seemed to load + render Slashdot on a private wifi network about as quickly as my iPod touch on...
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snaptrip: an announcement of sorts
I’ve finally got to the point where I’m happy to really start posting about snaptrip.
snaptrip is a little web project that lets you use Dopplr and Flickr together. Initially, it allows you to put machine tags - specially formatted bits of data - on your Flickr photos. Why bother? Well, Dopplr itself uses this data, if available, to show you photos on its site.
Obviously that’s...
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Applying Design
After fiddling about with it in private for a while, I’ve put a custom theme on notes.husk.org which matches my main site. More or less.
Annoyingly, Tumblr doesn’t provide title fields for all its post types, so I’ve used the post ID (which crops up in the URL) instead. Hopefully this works. Sort of. It also seems to provide only minute-level resolution on its timestamps. Eh.
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Compare/Contrast
A ruthless dictator turned up to a lead a well-orchestrated propaganda event yesterday, defying rumours of their ill health.
Meanwhile, Kim Jong-Il is unwell.
(Thank you, I’ll be here all week.)
On Watching Television →
optimistclub:
“In contrast to the average American adult, who watches three hours of television a day, non-watchers fill their time with a plethora of activities.”
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Out There: People Who Live Without TV (via primitivemachine)
Watching TV on their computer
Watching TV on their phone
Watching TV at the laundromat
Watching TV at the airport
Watching TV on the sidewalk in front of the...
On Drobo
blech: A couple of my Twitter contacts have just got Drobo
blech: they seem inordinately excited. IT'S JUST A DISK.
muttley: I like it, it's easy to use
muttley: it's clever
blech: Sure, but it's JUST A DISK
muttley: it's kind of shiny looking
blech: maybe this is how people feel about Macs...
blech: muttley: actually, I would like one.
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Google Chrome for developers?
In all the commentary about Google’s new browser, I haven’t seen any note of a feature that’s becoming central to many other browsers - development tools.
After all, Firefox has the pack-leading Firebug, and Safari’s (bundled) Web Inspector is getting more capable with every release. Given Chrome’s process manager, at least a profiler for developers (to make sure...