http://decafbad.com/blog It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:09:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since the beginning, I've been a Mozilla fanboy. But, up until very recently, I've only shown that as a user and a verbal supporter, with a shallow understanding or participation in what's really done in the Mozilla community. Sure, I've checked out source code from time to time ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/08/04/moz08-rockslides-and-blackouts-and-bears-oh-my I'm no longer at Yahoo! and I no longer work on Delicious, but I'm still a huge supporter. And, since I'm pretty sure everyone over there is either burnt out or still insanely busy at the moment, it might be awhile before anyone tells the full story of what ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/08/04/delicious-20-is-more-than-a-pretty-new-face As you've probably seen by now, Delicious 2.0 has launched. It's an all new design and the whole thing has been rewritten from the ground up. Most of the gripes I've seem like general dislike of change—which actually attests to the gargantuan effort put forth to reimplement the ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/08/02/delicious-20-legacy-bookmarklet-fix Since identi.ca has introduced support for the Twitter API, switching Twitterrific over seems to be as easy as entering this command in a Terminal window: defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific baseUrl -string 'identi.ca/api' The command to switch back is the following: defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific baseUrl -string 'twitter.com' You'll also need to restart Twitterrific after each of ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/07/18/using-twitterrific-with-identica Here's a small idea I've not yet had the chance to try out on a large scale: Time-based pagination in lieu of page-number-based pagination for personal content - ie. blogs, bookmarks, status updates, etc. (You know, User Generated Content except I dislike the term.) Page numbers change over time, ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/07/17/date-based-pagination This is a blog post I've had simmering in my brainmeats for well over a year or two. I'm suddenly inspired to break blog-radio-silence and get it out of my head. From Let the microblogs bloom - RussellBeattie.com: Once this is widely accepted (and I'm sure there are many that would ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/07/04/queue-everything-and-delight-everyone I know this isn't LiveJournal, but I just found what looks like a decent poll plugin for WordPress. So, I'll try it out and solicit your opinion all at once: [poll id="2"] http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/07/03/onwhat-should-i-hack-next I just posted a quick writeup on Laconica installation. But, beyond the how, there's the why. As I mentioned in that entry, I've started and neglected at least two attempts at building a distributed Twitter clone. That's mostly been a function of how busy I've been; how ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/07/03/why-im-playing-with-laconica The latest mini-sensations to arrive through my firehoses are identi.ca, a Twitter-clone / microblogging site, and the Open Source software Laconica, which powers the aforementioned site. Having started and neglected two Twitter cloning attempts of my own, Cuckoo and OpenInterocitor, seeing someone else carry the torch with any modicum of momentum ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/07/03/getting-laconica-up-and-running As mentioned back in week 3, I'd started work on bug 419647 to "add a sexy theme browser" to addons.mozilla.org. Well, I'm not sure about my success in imbuing it with the required sexiness, but it's at least been noticed by someone. :) http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/06/16/putting-the-sexy-into-firefox-theme-browsing Update: Oh, and rumor has it that this widget will switch to reporting on downloads, rather than pledges, once the main event has begun. Update 2: It didn't quite go like clockwork, but this widget is now showing estimated downloads by countries, rather than pledges. Thanks to the completion of bug 435967, ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/06/16/firefox-3-download-day-mega-widget So, it's getting to the end of my third week at Mozilla, and I'm a part of the Planet now—hooray! Having gotten a membership into that club, I feel like I should start making some noise about what I'm doing at work. Having stayed mostly quiet about day ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/05/22/week-3-at-mozilla I use Markdown to write for this blog, and I don't think I could write much online without it. (Of course, that's not saying much lately—but nevermind that for now.) Although I do appreciate all the effort put toward enhancing <textareas> on the web, I'm not a fan of WYSIWYG ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/05/18/markdown-oh-the-humanity Reminiscent of this time almost two years ago, it's been a busy period so far. I've been working on another book, entitled Professional JavaScript Frameworks, and have changed jobs twice since leaving Yahoo! in early April. I think I'm done bouncing around now, though: As you may or ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/05/14/go-midwest-young-man When I first created this blog back in February 2002, I was talking to myself and I knew it. But, that didn't really matter: Since becoming newly digital in 1983, I'd already spent years plugging away at personal projects big and small, frequently abandoned, talking to myself all the ... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/04/26/in-retrospect