Archive for the 'blogging tech' Category

My own referrer abuse

Friday, January 31st, 2003

I need a way to stop sending referrers when people click on my “random blog” link in the original entry, rather than bookmarking it like I expected they would.

Epistula gets TrackBack

Wednesday, January 8th, 2003

Curious about where and how Aquarion will be displaying his TrackBack pings

Inklog

Sunday, January 5th, 2003

revjim.net: inklog: it’s what you’ve always wanted. Somehow, RevJim’s titles always seem to say all that I need to say.

Sucked in

Saturday, January 4th, 2003

Aquarion: Oh dear, I’m going to buy an iBook, aren’t I? Resist! (Also: threaded comments are very cool.)

Blo.gs by email and IM

Friday, January 3rd, 2003

Sign up/in to blo.gs, and on the settings page you can choose to be notified of updates to your favorites by email or AOL or Yahoo IM. Sweet! (Would that be the soft launch you had in mind, Jim?)

Ideas are not fucking worthless

Thursday, January 2nd, 2003

To a certain extent it’s true that ideas are fucking worthless, but only in the original sense, that rather than talking and talking about the design of a project, you should just code it. But the flipside is that if you never mention your ideas or code them, the world is vastly worse off. If […]

Five dollar bookmarklet

Tuesday, December 31st, 2002

Hack CMS.pm to make Movable Type produce your choice of markup in the bookmarklet.

TBPY

Wednesday, December 25th, 2002

Standalone TrackBack server, in Python.

Skip the code, use the form

Thursday, December 19th, 2002

Thanks to PapaScott‘s tip and jim‘s confirmation, I won’t be stealing Mark’s code after all: blo.gs doesn’t mind having you switch back and forth between it’s XML-RPC ping and using the ping form, and it remembers your RSS URL even if you don’t keep telling it, so you can just use the ping form once […]

Note to self: steal this code

Thursday, December 19th, 2002

Just a reminder to me that I want to steal Mark Paschal’s blo.gs RSS ping for Movable Type code and convert all the lovely Python into somewhere between three and ten times as much PHP.