8 May 2004, terribly early in the morning
I figured out how to display the links I store at del.icio.us here at this site as well. Currently, you can view them on the links page.
What’s going on? How does this all work? Why, I’m glad you asked.
- When I find a link I like, I can make note of it with the del.icio.us bookmarklet. The site will then be saved at my del.icio.us home page.
- I found a python script that will query del.icio.us for the links you saved on a given day. I modified the script so that it will instead find the last 10 links you saved. The links are retrieved and formated into a small snippet of HTML, which gets saved on my computer. This file is then securely copied to funkaoshi.com using
scp. Running python program and copying the file I made into a shell script.
- The shell script gets run 4 times a day using
cron. cron is a program that will run jobs at times you schedule. I didn’t know how cron worked previously, but thankfully it is quite simple to use. I found a great site that taught me enough to get by.
What I would ultimately like to do is have a bookmarklet that will let me quickly save links in textpattern, and post those links to del.icio.us. Update: I have done this!
I’m quickly running out of things I can think of to do with this site. I will probably start reading Quicksilver shortly.
[4] Web Design | Weblogs
28 April 2004, terribly early in the morning
I’ve started working on an archive page for this site. Right now, you can read older posts by the section they are in, or the category they are in, or both.
Now, some of you may be wondering why there aren’t any date based archives. The creator of textpattern, Dean Allen, isn’t a fan of them, so they aren’t a part of textpattern. I may try and add date based archives at some point in time, but I think with the search box and the categories and sections, they aren’t needed. Any opinions on this?
Lex Konrad, who runs Naked Loft Party (NSFW) managed to get date based archives and URLs working quite nicely. So, if I have time, I may and try to mimic what he has done. As it stands though, I think I may stop mucking around with this site. I would say it is pretty complete now.
[4] Web Design | Weblogs
27 April 2004, mid-afternoon
For those of you having trouble getting your websites processed by Kinja, try adding a Atom or RSS feed to your site. Shima’s site is now being processed by Kinja, although it was not before.
If you use Moveable Type or Blogger this is done for you automatically. You just need to include a link to your feed in your URL, like I am doing on this site for example. Making your own RSS feed yourself isn’t too hard a task, but it is easier if you have a program that does it for you.
For those who don’t know, Atom and RSS are syndication formats. Atom is a newer format, whose popularity stems from the fact it is the default (only) syndication format available for use within Blogger. RSS is an older format, though there are in fact several conflicting versions of RSS available for use.
[2] Weblogs | Web Design
26 April 2004, mid-afternoon
I’ve come across a lot of really great sites from reading the text pattern support forum. There are a lot of really cool designers making pages with text pattern.
Here are a few I like:
- More Complicated. Nice and Simple.
- Naked Loft Party. The content is like intelligent pornography, and the layout is pretty slick. More impressive are the number of modifications he’s made to TXP. (NSFW)
- Valblog. This site has a wicked-simple design.
- Solipsistic. Very gothic and avant-garde. My only beef with the site are the nested scroll-bars.
[3] Interesting Links | Weblogs
17 April 2004, mid-afternoon
Making a website can be tricky business. Well, if you want to do it properly, anyway. Some of you may have noticed I waste countless hours mucking around with this page. Incase you are feeling jealous, and would also like to muck around with your website, but don’t know where to start, here are some links for you to check out. Hopefully this will help get you all well on your way to prettier, well structured, web pages.
Read the rest of this post. (237 words)
[2] Web Design | Weblogs
3 April 2004, late at night
The site now works using textpattern instead of moveable type. Please let me know if there are any problems with the new system, look, layout, etc. I’ll probably be mucking around with things for the next few days, but I wanted peoples opinions on the site.
[4] Weblogs
1 April 2004, early afternoon
Here is a link to Kinja, the weblog guide. In particular, it is a link to my user page, which contains the latest posts from blogs that I read.
Kinja lets you make a digest of all the weblogs you read. They have programs that will scan those weblogs and when a new post is made, list the result. Kinja seems a bit imperfect, since Shima’s weblog has yet to show up in my digest. The service is currently a beta release, and is probably still not quite perfect.
[4] Interesting Links | Weblogs
30 March 2004, mid-afternoon
I think I like the handheld version of dollarshort.org more then that real, meant-for-the-web, version of the site. Both layouts are pretty nice though I must say. The site belongs to Mena Trott of Moveable Type fame.
Interesting Links | Weblogs
23 March 2004, early afternoon
XFN is a way to describe your relationship to someone else on the web via the rel attribute for a link. XFN is a simple idea, and seems easy to implement, so I may add the information to my links shortly. Basically if Dave is my friend, and I have a link to him on my web-page, then I state that he is my friend in that link.
Update: I’m listed on rubhub now. I haven’t thought of anything cool to do with the XFN information, except perhaps highlight links differently depending on my relationship with someone.
[8] Interesting Links | Weblogs
23 March 2004, the wee hours
I love useless widgets and other crap people add to their sites. This guy tells you the temperature in the area he lives using a banner picture that represents a garden of sorts. His description does his work much more justice then what I have just said.
[1] Interesting Links | Weblogs
22 March 2004, late evening
Apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought that this comment authentication thing was interesting:
Interesting Links | Weblogs
20 March 2004, late afternoon
I’ve been getting comment spam at my photoblog, as some of you may know. SixApart, the company that makes Moveable Type, is developing an authentication system called TypeKey that they hope will reduce comment spam. They plan to have people register with this authentication service before they can post comments to sites that are using TypeKey for authentication.
I wonder if it will be effective, and if people will want to use such a system. Some people want to post anonymously, and some people may not want the comments they post on one site to be linked in anyway to comments they post on another site. (Maybe you post comments at a forum for child abuse victims, and want those comments to remain anonymous and separate from comments you post on your friends photoblog, for example.)
Most of all though, I am really curious as to how they will implement the system.
(I found this link at one of my favourite sites on the net, kottke.org.)
Interesting Links | Weblogs
29 February 2004, the wee hours
This is sippey.com is a sort of index page for this guy with a bunch of really nice sites—I like the layout. The pages are all simple.
Interesting Links | Weblogs
