Disqus - Latest Comments for eng1ne

Re: Scribkin’s WordPress Plugins - Let Me Show You Them

eng1ne — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:45:42 -0000

I actually wrote this post over a year ago (5-17-08 to be precise) so the site has undergone many changes since then. Onle of the last changes I made was to go with a very light theme with no CSS so that people could choose their own font via their browser preference.

However, that doesn't mean I'm not using *any* plugins now.. In fact, I currently have 33 active plugins, including: Add to Any, Akismet, All In One SEO, Disqus and more.

Hm, I could probably stand to get rid of some of the older ones, though.

Re: louisgray.com: Apple's Dashboard Widgets Comatose As iTunes App Store Skyrockets

eng1ne — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:21:34 -0000

On my creaky old mac mini, it's much happier if I hack OSX to prevent the dashboard from even loading. Too big of a memory hog.

Re: louisgray.com: Google Engineer Tests WebFinger Client for E-mail Identity Lookup

eng1ne — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:22:55 -0000

I like this! Simply, easy, and fairly accurate!

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/will-mainstream-adoption-of-gps-reduce.html

eng1ne — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:19:00 -0000

In its current form, I don't think the iPhone could replace a dedicated nav unit in a car, for the reasons mentioned: lack of multitasking, limited support for full GPS functionality, etc. Other phones may be better candidates for this sort of use.

Aside from that though, I think there is some fundamental work that Google or Yahoo! could do to cement themselves as the *first* place people turn for directions, by enabling a handoff from computer or mobile phone to nav unit via bluetooth. Why not have a public reference standard for transferring start and end coordinates, addresses, preferences, etc. between devices?

That sort of implementation might even bring about the sort of technological synergy that futurists love to dream about. Just think how nice it would be to plan a trip on your PC, click 'send to mobile', and then have your mobile sync with your nav unit when you get in the car. No muss, no fuss.

Re: Posting and Pulling Comments From FriendFeed

cheaplouisvuitton — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:46:28 -0000

I would like to see Disqus pull through Tumblr in addition to straight RSS.

Re: New Theme, New Thoughts, Less Fluff

eng1ne — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:36:15 -0000

Thanks Scott! I do indeed. I am an experienced Linux and Windows system administrator, as well as a trainer and amateur DBA. Yay!

Re: Changing The Disqus CSS

eng1ne — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:15:33 -0000

Looks good! Very nice styling!

Re: That's not what I ordered...

eng1ne — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:10:47 -0000

Drew, I only met you very briefly this year and chatted with you a few times, but I think your approach is courageous and great. Hopefully soon, you'll have to go back to blaming your keys for losing themselves. :)

Re: Bringing Sexy Back To Sharing | (jeff)isageek.net

eng1ne — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:15:03 -0000

That's a cute little plugin!

Re: New: Enable Support for Trackbacks in Disqus

birecik — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:22:02 -0000

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Re: Upgrading Your Twitter Experience With Greasemonkey

Corvida — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:24:55 -0000

Thanks Phil. I appreciate the credit update :)

Re: Upgrading Your Twitter Experience With Greasemonkey

eng1ne — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:02:21 -0000

Aw man, I found this post doing a backtype search, I would have credited it in my RWW post today on Troy's Twitter script. I should have known you found it 3 days ago!

Updated my post with credit.

Re: this is not hell - mc chris - Nrrrd Grrrl You understand now.

eng1ne — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:34:24 -0000

I saw this on Tumblr Explore. Congrats!

On a completely unrelated note, you should make your background wallpaper into a Firefox persona theme. Seriously. I'd use it. http://www.getpersonas.com

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/please-stretch-me-thinner-im-saying-yes.html

eng1ne — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:53 -0000

I think the technical term for this is "a glutton for punishment." But I am sure that you of all people will be able to handle the additional workload with few, if any, dropped balls.

Re: Disqus “Social Media Reactions” Now Available To The Public?

eng1ne — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:23:19 -0000

I hope so, Daniel, but UberVu is already aggregating everything that looks even vaguely like a comment on their servers. They've done that since before the Mashable integration, since their primary tool is a direct competitor to backtype connect.

But perhaps there is some ongoing work on the connection between Disqus and the UberVu engine that we aren't privy to. I don't see a mention of this new feature on the Disqus blog, after all.

Re: Disqus “Social Media Reactions” Now Available To The Public?

dpritchett — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:28:43 -0000

When Disqus rolled out FF support they chose to import all existing FF comments all at once, maybe we're all stuck in that sort of plodding back-to-front scan right now. Maybe Corvida's mentions will catch up next week.

Re: Disqus “Social Media Reactions” Now Available To The Public?

eng1ne — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:39:59 -0000

I just wanted to double-check over here.. yep, it looks like the new aggregation stuff isn't actually populating yet. Same news on my site.. so for now, Mashable (and even folks like Louis Gray who use FFtoDisqus) have the advantage.

Re: obscurely famous

eng1ne — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:29:32 -0000

You're right; I do.

Re: 5 Must-Try Tumblr Extras

eng1ne — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:58:12 -0000

You didn't see me here Jennifer, but good post! I'm actually looking for an easy way to add that sidebar widget that has the tiled icons of all the people you are following.

And, to give back, here are some other good Tumblr resources:

Feedly + Tumblr: http://blog.feedly.com/2009/02/17/feedly-tumblr...
Tumblr Toys: http://toys.tumblrist.com/
TumblrStats (with my tumblelog's stats): http://tumblrstats.com/scribkin
Streampad Tumblr MP3 player: http://blog.dankantor.com/post/43158314/tumblr-...

Re: Contest: Identify The Movies #3

webomatica — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:22:42 -0000

Thanks for commenting. Try again next month, where we see if anyone
can break Rob's winning streak!

Re: Contest: Identify The Movies #3

eng1ne — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:46:35 -0000

I only would have gotten 2 and 3, but hey, I didn't want the competition to be a complete gimmie, so here I am :)

Re: rizzn's personal blog: Rizzn’s Panel Attendance List [SxSW]

eng1ne — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:18:01 -0000

Some good recommendations here, Mark. Thanks!

Re: Okay Wordpress you really need to address this

eng1ne — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:37:32 -0000

WP-Cache is easy to turn off and on from the dashboard, so it shouldn't cost you anything in terms of functionality, even if it doesn't work.

Re: Okay Wordpress you really need to address this

StevenHodson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:14:21 -0000

Actually Phil (and I just checked) the theme is loading three very small gif images as a part of the 'overall' theme. As for Firebug I'm not going to install Firefox just to suss out a problem especially when I'll never use after that point.

I haven't ruled out using WP-Cache but given where *I think* the problem is occurring I'm not sure if that will make the difference but then I could very well be wrong.

Re: Okay Wordpress you really need to address this

eng1ne — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:36:43 -0000

Quick question Steven, have you tried using Firebug and ySlow to figure out how heavy your theme is? I'd try this first. It's an invaluable tool for optimizing page load times.

You'll probably find it's the WP theme itself that you are using. You can do some things to optimize it, like taking all the comments and whitespace out of your css page, but otherwise some themes are just faster than others.

If you are resigned to your theme's size, you can use WP-Cache or supercache to make it faster. Cache requires much less in terms of sacrifice in order to work correctly.

On the admin side, there's always Google Gears to pep things up.