phil ringnalda

Having previously ganked Matt’s Asides for MT, I’ve now just dropped in the original, but I haven’t figured out how to have the front page show ten posts or sections of Shorts, rather than just ten Shorts when I drop in a bunch, or how to manage them in the feed (maybe by excluding them until midnight, and then dropping them in as a single post?) so, sing heigh ho, the unordered list:

• XSLT to turn del.icio.us API output into Atom, from Aristotle
• Suprglu, a third-party service to mash together all your third-party hosted content into one third-party feed/site. I rather liked the suggestion on the greg-dev list to use Gregarius to do it yourself.
• Coming soon: WordPress 2.0
• it frequently sounds as though the word would mean something such as “written in crayon” or “words of one syllable only.”
• WordPress.com opens up: no more need to alter your Firefox UA so it claims to be Flock.
• Burn In 0 and Burn In 1: the start of an interesting series on how OS people got started in computers, inspired by Julie talking about getting kids started hacking.
• People who propose extensions should try to validate them first. × 1000.
• BlogThat plugin for Gregarius: shoot posts straight from your aggregator to your weblog, with a customizable template.
• Broken windows: far better than the usual definition.
• W3C Feed Validator, with a textarea for your quick testing pleasure, and a RESTy-SOAPish API for your bemusement.
• Closing a PHP Mail Form Vulnerability and a day later Combatting Spam. Sanitize. Sanitize. Sanitize.
• Bug 313492: Query RSS doesn’t correctly handle timezones in dc:date: add one to the list of products where I have a trivial amount of trivial code :)
• XHTML advocates considered erroneous: even though I trigger it myself, it pleases me every time I see it. Hi, my name is Phil, and I serve tag soup.
• Via Gadgetopia, I’m delighted by Tabinta, a Firefox extension to let you enter tab characters in textareas. I was thinking about replacing all the tabs in my entire WordPress install with spaces, just so I could use the builtin textarea editors for plugins and themes. Spaces rule and tabs drool, but at least now I can put up with them.
• More Google security failures: trivially obvious XSS holes really shouldn’t be how you want your “beta” described.
• Work for Google on Firefox: I almost wet myself laughing when I saw a bug titled “gBrowser is not defined” (gBrowser is the global variable containing the current browser instance, not actually Google Browser) go past, since if you watch checkins and google search for the names of new patchers, reviewers and committers along with “google” looking for “and I now work at Google,” you’ll see the Google browser already exists, and it’s named Firefox.
• I’ll watch out for the BurningAss. No one expects the BurningAss! Her two main weapons are fear, surprise, and a fanatical devotion to triples! No, wait…

Personally, I can’t quite imagine why you would want to, but because Gregarius makes it easy, and I think I’ve got it properly secured, you’re more than welcome to read over my shoulder, so that you’ll have already seen everything I linkdump because I’ve left it marked “unread,” and to enjoy watching my fumbling attempts to make tagging actually useful to me, and to stalk me in those few cases when I remember to tag an item where I commented “philcomment,” and most of all to point out feeds to which I’ve somehow forgotten to subscribe: thanks to the joy of the Doubleclick to (mark as) Read (and thus have it instantly disappear, if you display unread only) plugin, I’m finding 435 feeds isn’t nearly enough.