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Social novelty filtering (or Google Reader, R.I.P.) 14 Mar 2013 | 09:17 am
Wherein I muse about Google Reader past, and what it might have been. And, wherein I describe what I hope springs up in the aftermath of its closing. Reader’s been long gone already So, they’re finall...
Too long? Read anyway. 26 Feb 2013 | 05:16 am
Wherein I rant at medium length about functional literacy and language competency in knowledge work and information technology. Look, I realize that we live in a TL;DR culture. I lived through 8 years...
Looking for a Django app to manage Roles within Groups 23 Feb 2013 | 10:21 pm
I want to add some team-based features to django-badger. I was hoping that someone had already built a reusable app to do most of the work for me. This happens quite a lot when I’m working with Django...
KumaScript: Bringing scripting to the wiki bears 21 Feb 2013 | 11:30 pm
KumaScript turned one year old back at the end of January, and I’m sad to say no one celebrated its birthday – not even me. I’m pretty sure very few people outside of the core team at the Mozilla Deve...
Building my couch computing station 10 Feb 2013 | 10:27 am
Remember when I posted about gaming from the Orchard House couch? The key part was figuring out how to get a laptop-quality LCD monitor working in the living room, preferably attached to my trusty IKE...
Naming Things: CamelCase vs snake_case 24 Jan 2013 | 03:37 am
I’ve contributed code to a number of projects, often as a drive-by bug fix in a GitHub pull request. And, usually, I’ll try to do as the Romans do and follow the local naming and coding conventions. B...
Gaming from the Orchard House couch 21 Jan 2013 | 11:37 am
I like playing video games; it’s one of my favorite things in life. I also like hanging out with my wife; she’s my favorite person in the world. This is a post about ensuring these two things can happ...
Trifecta #59: Intention 9 Jan 2013 | 10:41 pm
Thought I might try my hand at this Trifecta thing I just found, by way of Fred. The challenge is to write fiction, between 33 and 333 words, using the word of the week and its associated definition. ...
Memoirs 4 Jan 2013 | 10:34 am
TL;DR: This is a story about what might happen if one takes life hacks, GTD, and IFTTT a bit too far. Okay, so maybe that’s not a great intro. But, it’s the first thing my brain spewed out. I’ve had t...
My experience in becoming a FirefoxOS contributor 15 Nov 2012 | 10:34 pm
Back in September, I wrote that I wasn’t leaving MDN. And, I’m not, really. But, it turns out that FirefoxOS needs some help to reach its first release milestones. So, some of us webdevs from around M...
