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I built a Minneapolis table 12 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Earlier this year, I had an idea to build a table that is an inverted 3-D model of a metropolitan downtown. Take a bunch of 1x2 boards, cut them to scale lengths of the buildings in downtown Minneapol...
Reminiscing about old code 13 Jun 2013 | 09:32 pm
I imported some long-forgotten CVS repositories into GitHub last night: anyInventory and Toby Web Mail (which contains the first commits I ever made to a version control system). They are nine years o...
Inline Preview Plugin for WordPress 11 Jun 2013 | 10:40 pm
Problem: When creating a post in WordPress, previewing your post in a separate tab can be slow and/or complicated. Solution: Show the preview right next to the editor. Inline Preview is a plugin for W...
Decade 27 May 2013 | 11:53 pm
What software is being conceived right now that, in ten years, will fundamentally alter the landscape of the Web? Who is hacking on a personal project that will eventually be used by millions of peopl...
Major RSS Ticker Update Coming: What You Need to Know 6 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
RSS Ticker has been an alternative to Web-based feed readers since 2006, displaying feed updates directly in users' browsers. It hasn't seen significant change in a while, but some of the internal Fir...
OPML Support updated for Firefox 20 25 Apr 2013 | 07:00 pm
I've just published an update to my OPML Support Firefox extension for the first time in three years. The extension previously added an OPML button to the toolbar in the Bookmarks Manager, but as of F...
The Plight of the Self-Taught Programmer 18 Apr 2013 | 10:09 pm
At each company-wide Automattic meetup, every employee is required to give a flash talk on a topic of his or her choosing. At our meetup last September, I gave a short overview of some of the programm...
In which I forge a simile 20 Mar 2013 | 08:33 am
I was talking with my wife tonight about the shutdown of Google Reader; she uses it heavily and relies on a number of features that aren't all found in the alternatives. She was worried that on July 1...
A practical application of Typo.js 5 Mar 2013 | 10:27 pm
I released Typo.js about two years ago as a pure JavaScript implementation of the Hunspell spellchecker. I've been using it in Comment Snob for Chrome, but I haven't seen many other projects using it....
Welcome to Twenty Thirteen 25 Feb 2013 | 09:19 pm
No, not the year, the theme! Twenty Thirteen will be the default theme in WordPress 3.6, but in order to help test it ahead of time, I've already enabled the trunk version of it here on my blog. I als...
