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Re: Lists and OPML (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:30:39 -0000

Once upon a time, I wanted to see more OPML on Delicious. This is as far as I got:

http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/opml/tags/deusx
http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/opml/deusx/writing
http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/opml/deusx/filety...

That's probably as far as it will get. It did interesting things in my OPML Editor at one point.

Re: I want to divorce my iPhone (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:08:11 -0000

Esp since my MiFi is Sprint! :-)

Re: I want to divorce my iPhone (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:10:29 -0000

I'd second the recommendation for the Palm Pre. I love mine, and have started really digging the OS after releasing two small apps to the homebrew community. The only major downsides might be that 1) Sprint doesn't want you to tether with it, and 2) even if you did use the "forbidden" homebrew tethering app, it's Sprint, and would probably have the same dead spots as your MiFi

Re: Urgently need an Intel build of OPML Editor/Mac (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:48:06 -0000

Not sure if these have been fixed, but there've been little issues I've run into in getting an OPML Editor to compile from SVN. I think I emailed the list at one point many moons ago, but I don't remember getting a response.

At any rate, I seem to remember most of it involved files not included in the OPML target, and some tweaks needed to shell scripts in the XCode target.

Hmm... now that I try compiling again, I see it works okay for an OS 10.4 SDK build, but comes up with a crapton of errors (700+) for an OS 10.5 SDK

Re: Urgently need an Intel build of OPML Editor/Mac (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:37:24 -0000

I seem to be able to do OPML Editor builds from the SVN repo fairly successfully, so I can give it a shot. Wish our experiment to get you up and running had worked. Grr.

Hell, maybe the next time I'm in California, I can pay you a visit and see if I can get it working for you in person.

Oh, and FWIW, I've got a UB build I've been using off and on for awhile here:

http://decafbad.com/2008/01/OPML-10.1a15-UB.zip

I can't recall any major crashes with it, but I can't say I've done any thorough testing

Re: On HTML 5 Drag and Drop

Randy Luecke — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:43:23 -0000

Except our progress is uselessly delayed. While we're all slaving over supporting IE we slowly build technologies that already exist again, so that they will be abstracted from browser bugs. Drag and drop for example will continue to be use javascript in jQuery, Cappuccino, SproutCore, etc probably until the end of time for abstraction sake while native html apis go unused. Simply because we have to engineer things that are already there we are slowing progress. There has never been another process for progress on the web.

Now, whether I like it or not the browser is the future of applications I just wish the foundation was a bit more stable.

Re: On HTML 5 Drag and Drop

lmorchard — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:21:19 -0000

In case you haven't noticed it: The whole internet, from top to bottom, is a series of nested foil-wrapped pigs. Many people have expressed a desire to cook the thing, in whole or in part, but no one's managed to lever the thing into a big enough oven yet.

Grumble if you like, but what you're observing is the best process possible for the web—because it's the only one that's managed to cause progress of any kind. If you think you can do a better job of herding cats and applying dynamite to foundations, more power to you.

Re: Delicious Founder: I Wish I Had Not Sold to Yahoo

lmorchard — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:23:05 -0000

Joshua also commented a little further up the page there, and it wasn't to complain about the veracity of the article.

Re: Retweet is stupid (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:20:54 -0000

Twitter favorites would be the solution to retweets, if only they'd put some more work into it.

I even went so far as to throw together this crappy utility to assemble the RSS feeds of my friends' favorites into an OPML file I subscribed to on Google Reader:

http://decafbad.com/2009/01/twitter-friend-fave...

Re: The Next Killer App is to Twitter as 1-2-3 was to Visicalc (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:22:16 -0000

Identi.ca is a good start, but it isn't growing along with Twitter.

Going back to the Visicalc example, there were competitors -- SuperCalc,
Multiplan. They filled niches that VC didn't reach, and while they weren't
juggernauts they made a lot of money and got a lot of users.

Maybe Identi.ca will be one of those, but I don't see it on track to being a
1-2-3.

All this imho, ymmv.

Re: The Next Killer App is to Twitter as 1-2-3 was to Visicalc (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:13:47 -0000

You know, Laconica / Identi.ca has actually been covered a lot around here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=laconica+OR+iden...

(See the first result.)

Re: Tagaholic - What Are Machine Tags?

tagaholic — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:52:26 -0000

Hi lmorchard. If only delicious supported has:foo=bar, delicious would be a step closer to machine tags. I'll be pestering them about this whenever I get around to importing my machine tagged bookmarks to delicious.

Re: Tagaholic - What Are Machine Tags?

lmorchard — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:48:39 -0000

By the way - Delicious doesn't support foo:bar=* searches, but it does apply a hidden tag system:has:foo to every bookmark with a tag from a foo namespace. So, try checking out tags like:

http://delicious.com/tag/system:has:geo

Re: Josh is right, URL shorteners are risky (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:46:30 -0000

You might like this self-hosted URL shortener: http://get-shorty.com/

Re: Reminder: Why I switched to Mac in 2005 (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:17:15 -0000

Figured I'd help get the Linux suggestion out of the way :)

Re: Reminder: Why I switched to Mac in 2005 (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:12:06 -0000

As you guessed I need a machine that runs the OPML Editor. Without that
there's no point. So that means either Windows or Mac, until someone does a
port to Linux.

Re: Reminder: Why I switched to Mac in 2005 (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:02:32 -0000

For what it's worth, you could try running Ubuntu Linux, if you're feeling spunky. It's surprisingly usable and not so futzy. I've had the OPML Editor running via Wine before, but that's a different flavor of canned worms than what you're dealing with now. Might be on par with a hackintosh attempt.

Re: How Battlestar Galactica ends (theory) (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:38:04 -0000

My theory is that they'll figure out that they're all Cylons, just of different revisions. They'll find a long dead settlement of real humans, find the biology is based on something entirely different than their own. (eg. "real" DNA vs what they call DNA)

An archeologist on some random ship will date some artifacts and realize that humans there have been gone for a million years. Baltar will declare that Cylons are all that are left, repeating a very long running cycle stuck in their collective psyche. Ellen will declare she can debug it, Ty will ruin it by strangling her in a drunken rage, and everyone left will settle on a random Earth-like planet to start it all again.

That's how I'd write it anyway :)

Re: Archiving your tweets in XML (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:33:59 -0000

Thanks again - both for archiving yourself, as well as offering up the tools!

Re: 0xDECAFBAD Bucket

lmorchard — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:59:37 -0000

Hmm, that might be an interesting thing to pursue. Right now, all the entries are just Markdown but otherwise plain-text files.

I suppose I *could* possibly do something funky with git blame to try assigning IDs associated with commits.

Re: 0xDECAFBAD Bucket

lmorchard — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:37:13 -0000

Here's another test comment to see if the page title shows up.

Re: 0xDECAFBAD Bucket

lmorchard — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:12:35 -0000

This is a test comment to see if disqus works.

Re: Implementing OAuth is still too hard… but it doesn’t have to be

lmorchard — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:22:44 -0000

A “transparent OAuth Provider” is exactly what I was looking for when I started trying to help Dave, too. I've not yet had the chance until now to dive very deep into OAuth myself, and it's very easy to get one thing inexplicably wrong (eg. not url-encoding all the right parts) and have no clue what you got wrong because the signatures are necessarily so opaque.

Would be nice if the "training wheels" of a transparent provider could take all the client-side key/secret and duplicate the expected work for the client side as a cross-check.

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

tbuser — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:35:46 -0000

Now that is interesting. I'd never heard of OpenSearch before. Even so, such an aggregator could never be as instantaneous as a centralized service like twitter... when it works... at least it would be more stable... until the aggregator overloads.

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:23:06 -0000

WordPress is not just free or open source - it's also relatively easy to install. Until it gets those two things, the barrier to use filter excludes nearly everyone.