My father says almost the whole world's asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says only a few people are awake. And they live in a state of constant total amazement.
-Joe Vs. The Volcano
I have been learning violin for about 2 years now, on and off, and I can reasonably play some basic stuff from sheet music.
Sometimes though, for more complex pieces, it is tricky to get a feel for how the notes match up to the actual expected way the song can should sound.
I have been using
...
Price gouging is a natural thing when demand outstrips supply. You fight against it and you just maintain scarcity and no one gets anything (and you create a black market) You allow it to happen and competitors see $$$ and production skyrockets, outpaces demand and prices fall. Usually too far...
Pivotal tracker is one of my favorite apps, and it looks like it is getting shut down. As such, I am looking to build a similar tracker software to fill this niche.
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Barbell strategy means to do two absolute different things to extremes rather than two middling things.
It comes from investing where you invest half in high risk/reward stocks, and half in risk free assets rather than just average stocks.
Some real life, non-financial examples:
This came from a dream, I have cats, just changed the litters before bed, and I love the movie Hot Tub Time Machine.
In the dream, me and a bunch of friends discover that a cat litter box can send you to a parallel universe (it might have also possibly traveled through time a bit).
This presen...
I have tried a bunch of task list management methods, and I am going to try a new one.
On my work calendar app, I created a new calendar where events get a light blue color. I have some repeating events on there that I want to do every day: working out, playing violin, working on individual pro...
Chrome and Edge really dominate the tech landscape. At work, I use Firefox as I like to support something different, and even though my company says only Chrome is supported for our customers, I like that when I am developing, and seeing compatibility bugs, I am fixing them for Firefox users so t...
I wonder how many different subjects and skills you can learn at the same time - during a week, not simultaneously - and still progress in them. Like if you spend 30-60 minutes a day on one skill, take a rest, and then do the same thing with another skill, and so on, what would happen over the co...
A wind that stays still is a wind no more
Someone posted up the various differences between different years that Rolling Stone released their top 500 albums of all time here: https://beckchris.com/2020/10/14/rolling-stones-500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-lists-an-analysis/
I took that and created a spreadsheet so you can do some sorting...
Well, I started hitting walls with 20 reps for arms. It just is hard to get to 20 at the limits of what my arms can do, but using rep/weight calculations of the higher amount for 15 reps, I am able to achieve and upgrade my weights, even when I have been stuck for weeks at the limits of what I ca...
Musicians used to make money via album sales (records, tapes, cds, mp3s, etc). This is how they exploded financially by selling millions of copies.
Today we have streaming, such as Spotify, as the main avenue to make money as a musician. This is a very different economic situation.
In the initi...
Sometimes I have so many things to do in a day, that it is hard to move forward on some things I want to do. Needs trumping wants.
Today I got finished with the garden. I planted some starts I did in little trays the weekend before last, but they were all looking rather sickly, so I went through...
This was inspired by this article: https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/25/capitalism-is-dead-long-live-capital/
Through the weaving of all forms of capitalism through large entities that perform rent seeking behavior, we have turned ourselves into pesants working the land of our lord. Nearly compa...
There is a thread of thought about AI, that it isn't violating copyright, because, just like humans, it is just synthesizing new works from it's learning.
I was a little on the fence about this, but after a bit of mental wanderings, I side hard on the side that it is violating copyright. To get...
In WWI when tanks were being developed, they were first thought of landships. Kinda like a battleship that rolled on the land.
The Brits chose the rather commonplace name of tank to keep it a secret about what they were developing. "Oh, this here we are making... oh it's just a tank. Nothing int...
This video is a great video listing life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUZ9VATeF_4
Ancient civilizations primarily used the base 12 number system. It was perfect because it has factors of 2,3,4,6, and you can even combine together like 8 being 2/3rds of 12. This was the base of mathematics for a long time, and gave rise to concepts such as angles, measurements of time, and was ...
Also, looking at this for some insperation: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1019224596054886
Youtube video for this: https://youtu.be/wb9hVUk3SS8
These two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, and there are many conflicting definitions that sometimes switch the roles of these terms.
To me, artificial intelligence is the effort to simulate the real intelligence of humans. For this...
https://github.com/luser/gamepadtest
https://github.com/ungoldman/gamepad-tester
https://www.reddit.com/r/electronjs/comments/ncfiwc/electron_allowed_us_to_make_a_big_steam_game/
https://github.com/greenheartgames/greenworks
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=electron+steam&ia=web
https://gith...
So I have been doing two workout days for a while, and each one takes nearly an hour, and it becomes hard to get myself to be motivated to do it, it isn't a daily routine, and trying to fit in that big of a time block can be challenging during the day.
I thought about it a bunch, as this is the ...
First snow, then silence. This thousand dollar screen dies so beautifully.
-- Simon Firth
The Web site you seek cannot be located but endless others exist
-- Joy Rothke
There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge
-- Rahul Sonnad
To have no errors Would be life without m...
"This is what I constantly tell my students: The hard part about doing a tech product for the most part isn't the what beginners think makes tech hard â the hard part is wrangling systemic complexity in a good, sustainable and reliable way.
Many non-tech people e.g. look at programmers and t...
So I built Elf Factory initially when I didn't have a playdate, and created some tiny fonts to make it so a decent amount of text could appear on the screen.
That looked great on my computer monitor, but apparently not so much on the playdate.
Now that I have one in hand, I was able to tweak a...
If you ever have a need to download some video from youtube, this is the best tool I found: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
It gives you lots of options for output sizes and types and can download channels and playlists.
I started doing a slight tweak to my workout routine.
I do 1 set per exercise, and push to do 20 reps of that set. If I don't make it, I rest for 30 seconds and try to squeeze out some more, and repeat until I hit 20 with minimal rest.
I write down the weight and the number of reps of my f...
I needed to drop out a background and turn it transparent, and I found this great site which allows you to do that and so much more with images: https://www4.lunapic.com/editor/
You can create animated gifs, do art style filters, do some basic drawing and modifications, etc.
Many of the thinks ...
This is a response to this article https://medium.com/@kobalazs/five-fallacies-of-estimations-in-software-development-897c5bc0630f
I disagree with the whole team doing pointing thing. It always devolves into a much taller normal curve centered at 3 or 5 points. And it takes forever to come up w...
Dishwasher that wouldn't run because it thought it wasn't draining but it was Car backup sensor thought there was something there, but wasn't and wouldn't let me back up, but car had an override The airplane that they were pulling up in, but ignoring the stall warning Teslas that people let drive...
- There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
- Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
- There is no editing stage.
- Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what...
You have two real options:
So I am 45, about to be 46. My father is 83. He is pretty far along with dementia, is in a VA home in Alabama, and nearly died, but that was due to being in a really bad state care facility prior that seemed to prefer to drug and leave their patients in a room to die rather than take care of th...
In this movie, Drew Barrymore plays as both a slapstick comedy movie actor (Candy) that is famous, as well as her stand in (Paula).
In it Candy hates her career as a character that basically is a mix of Johnny Knoxville and Adam Sandler. The Paula is the person who is there to stand in for he...
Writing things down is a way of thinking. Not a way of recording what you wrote. One way to do this is to create a TIL - today I learned.
Another way is to apply the...
The Feynman Technique is a method named after the physicist Richard Feynman, designed to help indiv...
I created a context system in SolidJS for forms
export const FormContext = createContext<Form>();
export interface Form {
data: any;
set: (data: any) => void;
validationResult: Accessor<Joi.ValidationResult<any> | undefined>;
touched: Accessor<TouchedData>;
setFieldValue...
Tailwind is a css framework that with some html code that looks like this:
You can style your site without css.
Instead, you throw classes on dom elements and then tailwind will ladle some css on your element to get it to look the way you like.
As someone who has done scss for a long time, ...
I had a link to his youtube video, but it looks like he took down his youtube account. You can watch the video here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ho5mm103zt33w2uywzvth/h?dl=0&e=1&preview=You+Suck+at+Excel+with+Joel+Spolsky+%5BBV1734y187KS%5D.mp4&rlkey=qq3y3axe5u31goaiqffx05g32
(note: update at end as there some issues with method)
Very often html looks like a soup of divs in projects
<div class="item">
<div class="name">Toothpaste</div>
<div class="description">Used to clean teeth</div>
<div class="price">$20</div>
<div class="actions"><button>add to cart</div>...
So, I am working on this forum software for neverall.com/f. I am working on making right now in solidjs because I feel that is a better platform for development.
I have the server all setup in node.js. This is now able to handle registration and login.
I have basically nothing as far as the fr...
One of the most annoying user experiences is registering and trying to create a password that passes a bunch of validation rules, such as must contain a uppercase, lowercase, special character, etc.
This doesn't always create the strongest password, and more importantly it doesn't create the mo...
It seems that any addon related to youtube downloading gets zapped form the Firefox and Chrome app stores. :(
Here is one I have used on Firefox that disappeared:
If you want to audit it before installing it, change the extension to zip, and unzip it (xpi is just a zip file). It looks like i...
I like to use my 3d printer a lot, but sometimes when there is a problem, I drop out of use for a while. Recently, a big ball of melted plastic formed around the hot end, and I didn't have an urge to fix it for a while.
Since we were doing the Nightmare Before Christmas as the theme for our card...
Longview has an annual cardboard boat regatta, and I wanted to participate this year.
The theme was Christmas in July, and my daughter Chloe's favorite movie is Nightmare Before Christmas, so of course we had to do that.
I had my neighbor Scott and my son Jevon help with the construction.
...
I have various timers. I use to remind me to take time away from my screen to walk around, play some violin, lift weights, or just grab a cup of coffee and take a minute to chat with my wife and have a moment with the kids.
If I am deep in thought or work or even some distraction, I will skip ...
About 5 years ago google plus went by by, but I made sure to export using their checkout feature all the posts.
Turns out that I was a pretty prolific poster there with about 250 posts. Each exported file was a way too cluttered blob of html and style code.
I had the goal of copying them into...
So this marks about a year since I started charting my weightlifting journey, and for most of the exercises I have doubled my strength.
In my older age, I have found that more reps and less weight is the way to avoid pulling muscles - a thing that in the past has hampered progress, keeping m...
Do the imperfect.
Do that which is tedious in whatever way gets you through it.
Though it may suck, both the doing and how well you do it, it is far better than to not do the thing you are looking to do.
Everyone is always intimidated that the thing they want to do is populated by those who ar...
I wiped out RobKohr.com as I haven't touched it in over 5 years, and replaced it with this blog.
It was built just using one long markdown file called blog.md that I edit in obsidian and each article is separated by ## Blog titles, and under that I use @date and @tags to specify those two value...
Often you will get deep in some code and come up against a wall. After working through it, and reading some documentation, if you haven't figured it out, it is time to go to stackoverflow.
I have been on stackoverflow for a little over 14 years now, and while I don't answer a lot of questions (t...
I kinda love going to a popular youtuber's channel, going to their videos section, and sorting by oldest.
What is now a polished producer of content that makes you feel intimidated to even attempt to make videos was once someone with a crappy camera, shooting in their back yard with a bad audio...
Just remember it starts with Laby.
Just a word I gave up on trying to spell right long ago. I have never been a good speller, and I think I have a slight bit of dyslexia, so I never really saw the inner spelling of the word, but finally I just decided to split the word into pieces, and remember...
Consistency is what I have been progressing more to. It helps to have lots of ideas and passion, but to do something big: build strength, learning a music instrument, run for office, build a side project, etc, requires doing something every day towards that goal in an endless way. I am actually d...
Finish up the analytics part, and then create a reddit clone on Neverall. The url could be something like neverall.com/n and then the subreddit name. I could have neverall.com/g be for games, and neverall.com/s for sites, and neverall.com/p for projects, and neverall.com/b for blogs, and neverall...
I have been working out using a google spreadsheet to track workouts. I aim to do a 20 rep max each week for each exercise that is slightly above the previous week. So far, it has lead to a nice continuous improvement... assuming I don't ever skip weeks. Each time I skip more than 2 weeks it push...
Scott and I are building a 5 person boat for the Longview Go 4th cardboard boat regatta. It is difficult to find time to work on it though.
First one dried out from a day of neglect.
I am attempting to do this to make bread at home to help with Ella's gluten intolerance. Apparently even rustic breads from the grocery store are very high in gluten from the sped up process of bread making that helps keep it fluffy and more shelf stabl...
I have grown to love Obsidian, the notetaking app.
I think about making a blogging app, but I l...
sawdust in my prints
Grinding dust - I imagine
stacking in warm light
I have been playing with svelte, and liking it, but things just seem to mysterious. With SolidJS, I know what to expect.
I got to creating some input components with svelte and started to do a registration form. Going to try again with SolidJS to build the same thing. Let's see if it goes a litt...
know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away, know when to run
Start a timer and see if you can beat your all time score. Just listen and talk to them. Remember, every 10 seconds you are on the phone, they are losing out on harassing someone else - you are really helping a lot of people and costing them money, thus destroying a bit of their scammy business. ...
And just like that, I now understand so many more aws services https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIbIYCM48to I like that you can tap into things like brackets to work with quantum computers.
I still do think that AWS is like sticky fly paper to tech organizations. Yes, come use all of our fancy sm...
The best tutorial on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXwgpUvLiwk
Being a fan of time travel movies, and my wife being a fan of romantic time-travel movies, this was an easy choice. This is a story of a girl who lost the love her life in a tragic accident, and getting a chance to go back in time to save him with at time traveling mix tape. The catch is that she...
My mind gets such a buzz from taking an idea and spinning it into the concept for a game and then making it so (the last part being so ardurious that it rarely comes into being). This fun open ended thought process that then needs to be rangled by the realities of time and effort to actually make...
I looked up 2000's music yesterday on spotify. I am a child of the 80's and 90's and when I listen to music, I really lean heavy into those decades, and like most people when they hit middle age, they tune into the newest music on the radio, and feel that the music of their childhood is way super...
To be updated with new ones from time to time:
Put a note pad next to your bed. Write down everything going through your mind. Keep writing while you are thinking until everything is covered. Now no more reason to think about things and you go to sleep. You can review the stuff when you wake up.
Allow 30 minute blocks for things, and only have one active task at a time. Count how many 30 minute blocks you use... this should be equal to the points... maybe? Not really very scrummy, but might be a good thing to track.
6 points a day = 30 points a week.z
Original video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g
(There are also some other videos of him talking about creativity)
Creativity is derived from play.
We exist in one of two states: Open and Closed
Closed is for when creativity is decided on and should be the follow up to being open. ...
Consistency with side projects is only accomplished with scheduling tasks on a consistent basis.
Having a family, side projects, main work, hobbies, etc can just be too much to keep track of, and also to allot time to. How often do you say "I'll do X around the house" and you just never get around to it.
Recently I have fallen in love with Pivotal Tracker for work purposes in managing tas...
After working with typescript a lot on work projects, I typically skip it on personal projects as it just seems tedious at times.
Well, I just threw it into the neverall project while working on an alerting system, and by golly did it help clean up some things.
The issues I find are related t...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03QJJBN2hGI
I wonder how long it took to create this script and how much it was don't virtually without the machine, and how much of it was done directly with the machine.
These are glorious self balancing machines that have perfected the challenging AI task of p...
Cohesive colors is a color palette randomizer that does a great job picking a set of 5 colors that work really well together, and also allows you to throw a hue adjustment on them all.
This would be good for a quick way to colorize game levels or websites t...
Pixlr photo editor really fulfills what I am looking for in a photoshop replacement without spending big bucks on what is basically 31 year old technology.
As someone who way the hell back in the late 90s liked to do silly things with mashing up different photos and doing...
A little over a decade ago, I went on a binge and made a bunch of web apps of various sorts:
Want to have your server update itself whenever you deploy to a github branch? Piece of cake:
I have a bit of a thought that 3d printing boardgames would be great, particularly portable ones with nice cases.
For sizing, I am thinking of basing it off of the iso 216 paper sizing formats. Most people will think of this relating to the A4 printer pap...
I am thinking it would be fun to go surfing at the oregon and washington coast this summer.
One thing that I find that helps is to open up a text file and start typing what your thoughts are and be unfiltered (I sometimes look away from my screen so I don't proofread). Try and get everything out, and let yourself brainstorm.
Keeping it all in a conversation in your head creates too man...
This is a great article about what games perform well on steam based upon their tags (categories).
Some games like strategy war games, which I have a gre...
This is a great article about using subdomains vs subfolders for seo:
I looks pretty clear that subfolders are the way to go.
With a single server with nginx on it, you can reverse proxy to multiple servers usi...
I used Grommet for a react project, and here are some of my thoughts on it.
Things I like
Things I don't like
When doing react, I have on worked with CRA up until now. I just took over a next.js app, and when built and deployed, it is speedy, but didn't like some of the details of development:
This is pretty fascinating stuff: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/blog/search-results-analysis
With just 3 clicks on average, you can get from any wikipedia article to any other wikipedia article.
I have a problem with time wasting websites such as youtube, facebook, twitter, etc. I start going down rabbit holes that suck away my work day.
As such, I am putting all social media sites on a 7 day time out. I have added them all to my /etc/hosts file so that visiting them just goes to an err...
For the last few years I have been using cloudflare in front of editthis.info. On the 21st I dropped it, and saw an immediate decrease in average load times (from google analytics):
This was without any changes to the system at all, and with about 800-900 active users per day.
Also, as mentio...
My wife and I went to Disneyworld for our honeymoon this month and it was fantastic. Due to pandemic fears, flights were super cheap, the disney resort was discounted and nearly empty, and lines were nearly non-existent at the parks. Most rides were about a 5 minute wait, with some of the more po...
EditThis.info has long been overdue for an upgrade. I've been postponing it for a while, and now that I have just finished a big move, a wedding, and a honeymoon in Disney (covid be damned), I am circling back on it.
Task list (this article will be updated as things are c...
Instaboardgame will be a place for people to instantly play and create boardgames with their friends wherever they may be.
Think of it like a big box of board game pieces that you can pull out and start playing with.
To start with, you create a table, then you can e...
I use rss feeds, reddit, twitter, news sites, etc, etc, but the most distilled grouping of great new things to read on the web regarding programming, science, design, and many other things is Hacker Newsletter. It is a weekly email newsletter that is a curated ...
Last month I made a doodle post of an idea for an instant online board game system.
Well, progress is coming along fast:
So far I have:
Certbot is the tool from letsencrypt.org that lets you generate ssl certificates for your site without having to pay the likes of Verisign ever again. Basically I love the heck out of them for what they do.
Nginx runs on your server to redirect examplesite.com to loc...
I was reading this BGG page:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4550/1000-blank-white-cards
And it looks like a fun game to play, especially with some jumbo index cards.
Some ideas for a go...
React hooks is what got me to actually like React enough to make it my primary web development framework (at least at this date). They break away from the ugly class based heavily nested object form of React, and make it truly more functional, while giving allowances for managing state in a sta...
I am going through my notebook directory where I have a bunch of little jottings, and these next posts are from those files all brought into this blog so they can be deleted.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Weighted task chooser is a command line node script that will select a randomly weighted task to do out of a tasklist markdown file.
So you have a list of tasks to do in a markdown file:
This is roughly a reply to/inspired by Write everything twice, just not a third time.
This is really a heavy "it depends". The goals of making it so you have one source of things to be debugged and modified ...
I started working with using index cards for writing ideas similar to the slipcard (Zettelkasten Method). I started working with 3x5's but found they were too small to write ideas on. Now I am using 5x8's. This works well, because I use them in portrait orientation and they fit in the [box I got ...
I have gotten so interested in different writing systems lately. I have more notebooks than I know what to do with. I use a daily notebook.md file which I use to track work tasks. I have this blog, which is generated from a blog.md file. I recently got index cards and am trying to figure out ho...
Using a long notebook file has made it easier to keep track of what I need to do each day. On any day I grab things from the backlog, and stick them under the header for today's date. Then I checkmark competed items. Incomplete items just move to the next day (or back to the backlog).
Perhaps ...
A lot of stocks are really down, some much more than average: Cruise ships, amusement parks, Dave and Busters, movie theater chains.
Selling all of my stock index funds and buying up whatever is cheap.
UPDATE 2 years later: everything went great :D
It amazes me how much can be done with VS code. It is really the perfect editor thanks to all of the extensions.
The FAANG's of the world are doing us a big disservice. They filter out the best of the best programmers in the world, and then shackle them with 300K+ golden handcuffs to work on meaningless tasks on already developed products.
I was talking with a recruiter many years back about when Yahoo had...
Octomaze is a A good puzzler that gets you thinking, is challenging, but not so much that I have gotten stuck yet.
The mechanics and style of this game concept are great, but what really makes this shine is how much obvious th...
Progress update on https://godotassetstore.org
What works
In progress
Next Up
Tired of having to annoyingly see those accept cookies messages that EU bureaucrats have foisted upon us all? Use the StyleBot chrome extension and then open stylebot->options->Edit Global Style Sheet, and the...
Elevator Saga is a javascript programming game where you have to write code to control elevators in the most efficient possible manner to be increasingly difficult levels. Warning: this is totally a nerd trap that will suck your attention if you are a programme...
Node red this is a very similar thing to yahoo pipes back in the day. It is a self hosted tool to pipe things into each other and do operations on them (best to watch the video there).
I have a PC hooked up to a TV with a bunch of controllers, and I love local multiplayer games with my kids. If you have a game you would like us to beta test, and write a review of, just send me a message on twitter.
I was talking with @octagon_game_st about his game Octomaze
I didn't finish the demo, and well, I figured I should paste it in as I think it is a good breakdo...
NesRocks made this very cool refreshed version of Super Pitfall that is a rom hack that updates graphics and music. He really does a great job in keeping true to the original designs.
 development, 1.5 ...
It is way too difficult to find a domain that isn't being squatted on. Take any two random words in the dictionary, put them together for a domain name, and some squatter will own it.
As painful as it would be to raise prices, a domain name should be $100 per year rather than $10. This would des...
I have a bunch of devices that use micro-usb, and as such I have chargers for them everywhere, but inevitably the tips on those cables start to fail, and devices have to be wiggled around and set just right to charge. On top of it, the devices themselves start to w...
My vive has died in all the ways:
Looking at much of the traffic on the asset store, and non-USA visitors seem to be a big part of it (China, Russia, etc).
To satisfy this market (and target them for SEO), I will do something relating to using the google translate api to translate the various assets and text in the site. Urls wi...
Constant Sail Pirates and Traders analytics seems to do consistently well despite being a page with no content on it other than an old video. I should make it a priority to make this game again with newer tech to support more users than before as there is just a continu...
I just registered godotassetstore.org for the Godot Asset Store. It seems like it would be an easier name to share with people and the media than godotasset.store, which just seems a little odd. I'll have to set an nginx redirect for it on the server and set up cert...
And just like that, now we have a dead simple blog generator tool:
Github / dead-simple-markdown-to-static-blog-creator
This was used to create the site you are currently on!
This blog was created with a simple markdown file and a directory of images. Trying to come up with a good way to host it will be interesting
I should come up with a new username on twitter and domain name to match it.
3am is often the time I wake up, eat some cereal and do about an hour or so of hacking before heading back to bed at 5am. It just seems to be the most productive time for me (assuming I don't get wrapped up in social media).
I started developing the Godot Asset Store a few weeks ago. It is built with Angular and node.js as the backend api with nginx as the frontend.
I am getting to the tricky parts now:
Stack Overflow is like a magic wish granting genie, if all your wishes are constrained to be answers to technical problems. Pretty much and far flung technical question I put in there, the right person comes along and provides an answer.
10/25/2019 is the day I started the Godot Asset Store, and so I am inserting this entry for that day. After creating my first godot app (the tutorial dodge game), and after years of dipping my toe into Unity but never making much of anything, I see great potential in Godot.
One of the biggest pa...
Generate domain names from keywords using mixmatchdomains.com
Watch me struggle :)
I wrote this a long while back about a dream I had about a race that happens every year. This isn't a normal race, but one where participants can bring all manner of things to race with (skateboards, bikes, etc) but most chose to go by foot.
The race starts in the dark of night, in a dense ci...
I created a new google chrome extension that changes the functionality of the netflix left/right scroll buttons. Instead of doing the annoying slow scroll, this makes it jump to show the next set of movies in the carousel.Â
[Netflix Jump Scroll](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/netflix-j...
After years of using git from the command line, I pretty much only handle git from this app now. I started using it 4 months ago for work, and now also use it to manage my personal github stuff. It makes managing and visualizing git a breeze.Â
[Tower - The most powerful Git client for Mac](http:...
This looks like a really fun original game. Basically you are one of a number of companies competing to develop on Mars and you acquire resources and trade them on the market trying to outdo your competitors.Â
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHdh9jDWDRM&feature=autoshare
I am working on a game at islandwarfare.com
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It will be a game where you build up the resources and units on an island and use them to capture other neighboring islands.
I see so many charts posted predicting the future value of bitcoin.
I love it when people put lines all over price charts hoping to predict the subjective valuation of thousands of irrational actors.Â
Trends are meaningless, and mass action will come in response to events out in the wor...
Starting to re-find my love of google+. Facebook tends to just be a collection of highschool and other old friends' updates about their lives: marriage, kids, etc. It is nice to browse, but in the end I don't think I get much from it. Also, since I was in politics for a while, and made a lot of p...
I was reading an article in Gamasutra about novel game design and he told a little story about how this game helped snap him out of depression (and also helped him realize that games can provide more than just casual fun).
If you know anyone that might be dealing with depression, send them the li...
If you like Go and Tetris, give this a try.
Warning: it is super hard.Â
This is so cool! You can take and mesh together icons from different font sets along with svg images and define the names of the icons however you like.
This is the most awesome way to make an icon set for your website!
With this you can scale things as you like, and make icons any color you lik...
The internet is a functioning thriving ecosystem that works with the current very light regulation regime, and it has been for decades.Â
How about this: when the telcoms get around to screwing the consumers by throttling their youtube and netflix (yes ignoring that one incident) then we can ...
javascript : how could a loosely typed, prototype-based, asynchronous language, with complex scoping rules, and a propensity for complex callback loops be possibly dangerous :) Â Â
It does make for some fun surprises
Cool, I love Bjork
http://whowillsaverockandroll.blogspot.com/2015/01/bjork-in-new-york-times-magazine.html
2015-01-07T10:52:54-0500
Parody atari game covers... many look like they would have been fun :)
Because... Â Just because.
From the meaning of life we have the Monty Python Universe song. A great rendition that shows just how amazing the universe really is from one ridiculous movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq4uCWtQE24
I use the javascript console as a calculator, and it is funny when binary <- -> decimal rounding/conversion errors pop up unexpectedly.
This is a good reason to be careful when doing if(x==someNumber) conditionals in your code.
If you would like to contact me via bitmessage, my address isÂ
BM-2cUH7jMop6tgKaNTt6KG5hhzvjqti1XWyQ
Update: I no longer have access to this address
It would be interesting if kindergarten teachers went with you all the way up to senior year of high school. They wouldn't just be a teacher for a grade level, but for the lifetime of a kid till they go off to college.Â
Yep, I can see plenty of problems with this and plenty of work arounds t...
This will list  recorded full albums on YT
Loving DigitalOcean.com vps. Only $5 a month for a base one, but if you are using it for development, you can snapshot it and shut it down, and only pay a few cents for the hours you had it running.Â
Basically I treat snapshoting and shutting down like putting away my toys for playing with l...
So, Truecrypt posted that they are no longer secure anymore and you can no longer download their software and ... oh yeah, you should start using Microsoft's Bitlocker instead. Never mind that it is closed source and that MS promises that they won't put in a back door for the NSA.
The nice thing...
Cool craftiness
I'm in the empire business -- Breaking Bad season finale party
Oculus rift is being bought by facebook. Now we can have facebook for your face.
So it looks like Verisign has increased domain registration prices to over $10 for .coms:
 After 7/1/2013, prices change
  .com from $10.99 to $14.99 per year.
  .name, .ws and .biz from $12.99 to $14.99 per year.
  .ca from $11.99 to $14.99 per year.
  .org, .info, .net and ...
Wow, that's it. Game over for Nintendo, XBox, and playstation. It is so easy to make a game on android and put it on this store, consoles and their gated developer communities don't stand a chance.Â
There have been a few android game consoles that were made by small firms and a bunch that were i...
Hacking on a new version of Tank!
Test if spen
Look a blimp
One of my favorite mobile apps is Mind Wall. It is a simple puzzle game where you need to chip off one square of a wall to fit a tetris like block through the wall. It is mildly challenging, and makes for a good spacial puzzle. It was created for ld48
iOS: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="...
This is advice I would have taken had I known when I started college. I would pass this on to anyone you know that is going to college soon.
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/01/14/testing-out-how-to-moneyball-your-way-to...
I used to work in e-commerce, and one term you might not heard of is called an "abandoned cart." It is when a user is about to check out, but then leaves the site. This happens frequently, and many savvy e-commerce sites try to recover these abandoned carts.
If you got through much of the process...
I am using redphone now, so feel free to call me using it.
Google Extension Idea: Check out elsewhere for amazon. I use a chrome extension called "the invisible hand" which shows you what other online stores are charging in comparison to amazon. It would be great if there was an extension called "check out elsewhere" where your whole cart could be dro...
#IdeaNeedsHackers Have a good idea that you want to get some hackers on board with? Just put it out there and use the #IdeaNeedsHackers  hash tag. You should state whether or not you can contribute to the development effort, or if this is just an idea that you want to kick out into the world and...
If you or anyone you know is using bitcoin on android, there is a issue with how android was creating random numbers which made transactions generated on android wallets vulnerable where the private keys could be reverse engineered.Â
I use BitcoinSpinner, and I upgraded BitcoinSpinner, and then i...
So I have been using node.js and mongo for some time, and yeah, it works fine and all, but I am starting to wonder, why bother with a db at all?
When you are using PHP each load of a page restarts the PHP app, and the only way you can have any state stored for anything is to use some database sys...
For some reason I have been thinking a lot about health bars, HP in RPGs, and RTS'
The idea of diminishing health until a character is dead just seems to be very far from reality. If you get hit by a sword or arrow or bullet, you are either critically wounded (crippled), dead, or maybe it was ju...
Google Distopia?
So I was watching this video Google Glass - The First Fight & Arrest Caught on Glass - July 4 Wildwood, N...
http://blog.xkcd.com/2013/05/15/dictionary-of-numbers/
This looks to be big: https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
Demo of http://ConstantSail.com for nodepdx ( http://nodepdx.org/ )
This was done completely with node.js using mongodb as the data store, and using jQuery Mobile as the front end framework. Also used was express.js and ejs as the templating engine.
A quick and easy way to make Chrome web browser more secure:
Go to this url: chrome://plugins/
and start disabling plugins. The number 1 on your hit list is Java, which accounts for 50% of the security issues in the last year. (source:Â <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.c...
Now available in the iTunes store!
This is my first phone app I have made in over a year. It is a simple RPG dice roller. More apps to come :)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id603097725?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
"Go Go Red Team" "Go Go Blue Team"
Whatever side you are identified yourself with, you are identifying yourself with a side that supports an evil financial system, an imperialist military system, and a corrupt bought out political system controlled by career politicians who's main focus is gettin...
Photoshop wasn't handy, and gimp is a pain to use. After trying to find a decent alternative, I stumbled upon sumopaint, a free web based photo editor. It might be a bit weak for super-advanced users, but for me it worked just fine.Â
It does layers, magic wand selection, and 98% of all of the oth...
I put out my first android app today. :)
Wow, this looks like it will be a really fun game.
So 25 btc are mined every 10 minutes, 3600 per day. At $13 a piece, that is $4800 per day. Considering the number of people that are doing bitcoin mining, it doesn't seem like a lucritive investment - unless you have free/subsidized electricity.
Wow, the fiscal cliff sounds great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_fiscal_cliff Basically both parties hate it as i...
This is the first time I funded a kickstarter. Although I don't do miniature gaming, I love these little houses that you can pop apart and put back together, and think they would be great for the kids.Â
I funded this for $15 to get the "Fisherman's Cottage" which comes with a cool sod roof.
I know everyone is all heated up about the presidential race, but if you are local to oregon, check out James Buchal who is running for Attorney General. He is a liberty oriented candidate who got on the Republican ticket through a write in campaign.Â
Issues that are important to him are ...
I am in on the October Challenge for Ludum Dare, and will be developing http://islandwarfare.com
You can sign up for email/rss/twitter updates on the website. ...
I think conspiracy theories are sometimes conspiracy in themselves.Â
ZeroHedge put the RT as a bullet point, and feel that it requires a little comment.Â
I think that the RT is nothing more than a russian news puppet show that is similar to our leaflet bombings of enemies in prior wars. Their pu...
So I now have two separate projects on github where people are forking and merging in code.Â
I now see the delight in the git experience. :)
After using mongodb for quite some time and building several systems with it, I am starting to drift back into preferring structured data in a mysql db.Â
I think the seco...
Google maps has a bike mode and a mass transit mode. It would be great if they had a mixed mode which just showed the speediest way to get there assuming you could skip mass transit things that are too slow.
A new way to round - rand_round So in grade school you are taught the basics of rounding. If the decimal portion of the number is < .5 round down to the integer so 5.3 becomes 5. If it is >= .5 round up, so 5.8 becomes 6. â This is well and good if you are doing something that has an even d...
Ebay's failure as an auction site
Too often when I go to ebay now, I just find merchants filling the search results with either "buy it now" items, or auctions with too high of a starting price.
I wish they would do something about this. A simple solution would be a 5% charge of the listing pr...
This is a pretty no-fills website that has been running since 1999. It emails you whenever a web page changes. I use it whenever a site doesn't provide rss or a newsletter, but I want to keep track of when there are updates.
The original plot of the Little Mermaid was more dramatic than Disney's version.
Book review of Starship Troopers I posted on Amazon.com
This is totally different than the movie, but only in good ways. Heinlein is a expert of political philosophy applied to science fiction and paints a world of a fascist government that is embraced by its citizens, and you can sympathise ...
First done, first paid :)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90701.msg998158#msg998158
"The code isn't going to write itself"
I constantly tell myself that every time I wonder why things aren't getting done at the speed that I expect for personal projects. Typically it comes down to being overzealous with my project timelines, or just doing too many things that are distracting me f...
My shaving arsenal - similar to your grandfather's:
Burger time
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArtOfManliness/~3/ks4RTnqVz6I/
When we reach 21 Million Bitcoins, will their be no economic activity, and a deflation spiral?
#bitcoin
I think an assumption here is
Fixed monetary quantity = deflation.
The increase or decrease in money value is not entirely based upon scarcity.
A major factor in inflation is monetar...
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/oregonians-for-liberty?fromplusone=1
http://www.fairvote.org/response-to-a-rogue-convention-how-gop-party-rules-may-su...
Need a decent rating system for a matched based game system?
I just implemented the glicko-2 rating system (similar to ELO, except much better) in javascript: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/RobKohr/glicko" class="ot-anchor bidi_isolate" jslog="10929; track:click" dir=...
I am surprised it took people this long to strap a gun to a quadrocopter. Unfortunately, FPS is right. This is the future. Though I can see a person controlling a semi-autonomous squad of them rather than just a single one.
One would be the eyes of the operator, and with a mouse he could click mu...
ChangeDetection.com is a great way to monitor a website that you go to infrequently (in this example, once a year). They email you whenever a change happens
The link below is for google code jam's change log, and it is fun to see some of the minor copy tweaks the make over time.
If you have had enough of high res flashy backgrounds, and you would like something a little simpler.
Have a mac, here is how to check if your infected. *Open terminal run this
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment and this defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
If both those commands come back with something that ends with "does not exist" you ...
An law school professor and former criminal defense attorney tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by t...
Unity is giving away iOS and Android add ons until April 8th for free.
They put all over this that this is conceptual design, and not actual gameplay. But I hope they make it look even a little like this as it is pretty hot.
This will require a constant internet connection as they are implementing stuff that will have economic balancing with other cities in your "re...
On FB and G+ games, they don't allow you to modify the permissions for the games. What if I don't want to give you my email address and all of my info?
Checkboxes would be nice, and the game creator will then have the chose of refusing me if I don't give enough info.
For game creators, don't ask...
When I mouse over a person who just circled me, it would be great to see their most recent post(s) without having to click them.
Answers are just the embryos of new questions.
I wish there was 2x, 4x, 8x speed modes for youtube and other video sites. Some interesting talks take to long.
I remember this was a feature on my iphone, and I used to use it for some podcasts.
Can anyone sum up why the google policy changes are important. I would like to know the tl;dr version.
Singing with headphones on is like driving without looking at the road.
I can't stand out of office auto-replies.
I send a message to 10 people and 3 back. I don't care that you took off on friday.
It would be great if when you send out an email you can tack on #noOOO or something like that, and the auto-reply system will not send those back.
Or maybe reverse it...
So the banks are being incentivised 63 cents on the dollar for the for every dollar of a mortgage that is forgiven. This will be paid for with tax funds.
That is huge.
If you are in forclosue is time to give the bank a call and negotiate.
There is a Mongolian place we go to where one of the bins of meat is labeled "Turkey Shrimp." The legendary Turkey Shrimp is a crowd favorite.
This is a sketch of a live turkey shrimp drawn by +<a class="proflink bidi_isolate" href="http...
Follow everyone that someone else is following on twitter
I opened up a second twitter account, and I wanted to follow everyone my first twitter account was following. I went to the "following" page for the first account and started clicking away, till bordom ensued. Then I did an inspect ele...
Virus=very yes
Strong Bad Email
Digg/Reddit like News site. Voting is based on Bitcoins!
I created a site where you can post links, videos, images, and blobs of text (h...
This will make it so you can click a button to open iTerm in any finder folder:
Download *<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://raw.github.com/gist/905546/e1a34cf2d217d44858146af71d76546d3289c4b0/finder-open-iterm-here.scpt" class="ot-anchor bidi_isolate" jslog="10929; track:click" dir...
XKCD has a great comic about how to create a strong yet easy to remember password: http://xkcd.com/936/
And this site created a generator for it: <a rel="nofollow"...
Pissed about SOPA, it will be back. Here are some better ways to keep it from coming back:
Make sure these pricks don't get reelected:
Lamar Smith (R-TX) -- introduced the legislation Harry Reid (D-NV) Howard Berman (D-CA) Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) Steve Chabot (R-OH) J...
Particle physics have come a long way.
This is a new Multiphysics simulator by Lagoa Technologies Inc.
It looks like SOPA and PIPA have likely been stopped as politicians have dropped support for it.
It was a great move for freedom, but on a more sour grapes note: where was this outpouring of popular dissent when so many non-internet freedoms have been taken away.
It looks as though without yest...
editthis.info and cueflash.com ...
Picture wars is a forum based game where a 2-d sidescroll style map is used. 2 or more players each use their own sprite pack armies in a turned based war game.
Each turn, players move their units and attack things by updating the image. Whatever makes sense is considered acceptable. Along with ...
Strong Bad makes a techno song.
I dropped google a couple weeks ago as my default search system in favor of duckduckgo.com. The reason was that the results for technical terms started getting mor...
Great comment on hacker news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3451527
sunchild 27 minutes ago This is such an important point: there is...
Top 50 entries for the 48 hour game development competition.
Fake Amazon Reviews
Important when looking at reviews on Amazon: click on their profiles and see what else a person reviewed.
I find a lot of reviewers are fake, and are really just sock puppets of the person selling the item.
When the person reviewing the item only ever reviewed this item,...
Obama signed the NDAA today.
The Act legislatively codifies the President's authority to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects without trial. This can include US citizens on American soil.
(at this point I had about a dozen sarcastic remarks about Obama, but really I think none are needed.)
Being a father of a 4 year old, I have watched someone learn their first language. He really understands english very well, but he has shown me the many inconstancies and exceptions in our language. It would be great to use a survey of common "mistakes" a child makes in understanding the english l...
Anyone interested in minatures should check out shapeways.
You can have them 3d print pretty much anything you can come up with.
#rpg #gaming
Javascript implementation of glicko-2 rating system along with a ffa-team based setup.
Thinking of setting up a utility to have the amazon turk sort out all of the good photos in my photo albums.
A better way to fight SOPA
GoDaddy has been a supporter of SOPA which has caused many to boycott them.
Here is an even better way to hit them in the bottom line...
Add this somewhere in your webpage (you can just stick it somewhere in the footer)
GoDaddy is #1 in google for "Domain Registrati...
Reminds me of the girl from Real Genius
Triangles!
FAIL! !!!!!!!
Google has been manipulating their algorithm, with the goal of making it more friendly to users.
This means it will find results that do not match all of your criteria, but are more "meaningful" ~= higher page rank.
They have also ditched the + operator (+keyword) which forces only results that ...
It is really annoying when source code download sites don't provide a url that you can use with curl (usually it is some html redirect page that does tracking for them).
I want to download the code onto the server. I don't want to download it locally and then scp it to the server.
What I love ...
It looks like the next batman movie is a mortal kombat crossover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion_(Mortal_Kombat)
The D...
After futzing with Adobe Illustrator for a while, and getting fed up, I hand coded an SVG file and imported it in. So much easier when you want to be accurate. Trying to tell the software what you want with pointing and clicking just isn't as good as typing in
...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53869.0 I added a description of how I handle ecommerce.
An image of a bitcoin mining rig. It is so industrial, it looks almost like equipment to do real physical mining.
Pictures like this remind me never to get into mining. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq9z4zJUom1qfy0bho1_500.jpg" class="ot-anchor bidi_is...
Using my kids' playroom as a photo studio can be amusing in retrospect.
http://printcoins.com/images/gallery/cheque.jpg
Bitcoin cheques now available on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://printcoi...
I am sharing the share of my own post ... and deleting original. ...
Nice, someone has pulled videos together for all of these academic classes.
Really, set up any command to run on startup as a service (and have "start/stop myprocess" commands available to you).
Much easier than init.d
http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/run_nodejs_as_a_service_on_ubuntu_karmic/
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
I run a UGC site on a dreamhost virtual private server called cueflash.com. A user posted up content that was copyrighted, and dreamhost recieved a DMCA takedown not...
So someone sent a DMCA notice to my service provider. They were complaining about content that they considered their copyright in a wiki I am hosting. It was a page about their news station WHKY TV. Looking through the history of the page, I could see that a bunch of people worked together to crea...
I wish I could pay not to see ads on youtube. I would pay $10 a year to not see them. Surely that is worth more than the advertisers are paying you.
I got tired of being distracted by that little red notification, and was about to write an extension to hide it. Thankfully someone beat me to it.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ogcfegjiehdakiogchpnllekccphhebd
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/october-challenge-2011/?uid=4337 Launched <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://c...
brilliant
What happens when you round 3.6 ---> you get 4.
What about in a game? Should every time a player kills 3.6 of an enemy, should it be really 4?
Probably not, but the math might have that happen all of the time. It should be that it rounds up 60% of the time. Over time, the average player would ...
When working with mongodb especially, but also in other cases, you can create a deep stack of calls that can get pretty ugly in javascript.
To avoid this I created a function that will recursively go through an array of things you want to process in a callback stack.
Follow link to read more...
Working hard on Constant Sail: Pirates & Traders for the October competition. It is a pirate game where you sail around a world and trade goods. It is multiplayer and web based with a big emphasis on PvP fighting.
As you can see, even though I am making this for the web, it is being formatted to ...
Visited the portland occupy protests today and had some great chats with some revolutionaries :)
This is what 3d should really be.
Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual enviro...
Totally into ...
We're going on tour in October, check it out!!! Pomplamoose 2011 West Coast Tour Los Angeles October 21 @ The Troubadour Tickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/62829/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=150526285036434 Santa Barbara October 22 @ SoHo (21+) T...
Anyone accept #Bitcoin on any e-commerce or game site?
Does anyone want the domain: PopulationMatrix.com ? I had plans on building something like Survey Monkey with it, but I don't think it would be worth my time.
I think it is a pretty awesome name, but not worth it to me to do the $10 renewal. If you want it, let me know (though keep in mind it wi...
If you have a search results page on your website, try to minimize the amount that users have to use the pager on those results.
Google gets away with showing only 10 results, because they are awesome at delivering what you are looking for in that first page. Your results probably aren't that su...
"Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines." (http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2907)
Greed is not the problem. Capitalism is not the problem. Corporate control of the government is the problem.
What is amazing is that there are so many interesting products that you can buy now. Looks like a great way to get some cool presents for people for christmas.
1994 - Pulp fiction & Inflation
There was a scene that really focused on the cost of a $5 milkshake. This was between two characters that probably blow plenty of money on coke and heroin.
Today, a $5 milkshake is no big deal. Heck, that is how much a coffee is (the cheapest beverage to make on e...
I am looking forward to the race to the bottom in the tablet wars.
Give me a call when they are priced right above the raw materials it took to produce them.
What do people in Ludum Dare use for timelapse on Mac.
Want to add jquery to a page you are viewing on your browser for some quick hackery?
Create a bookmark with this as the location:
javascript:void((function(){j=document.createElement("SCRIPT");j.src="<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.pack.js" class="...
What a great video.
Official video for 'The Stampede' by Biting Elbows from our debut EP - 'Dope Fiend Massacre' Click to Tweet: http://clicktotweet.com/7fIbn Buy @ iTunes http://goo.gl/07jyf @ Amazon http://goo.gl/53Kcl facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bitingelbows www.BitingEl...
Minecraft
http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2011/09/hardest-game-for-adults.html
Attempted to play Dwarf Fortress last night. It is a tough game to get into.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
http://www.vayapotra.es/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/2rmqi6o.gif
http://ciracar.com/build-a-house-for-less-than-5000/
The Jumpers
The year was 2016, and researchers at the CTEX2 particle accelerator lab discovered a way to slow time around a local area to near zero. Anyone within this field would feel that they jumped forward in time in a flash.
Before long, the jumpBooth became a commercial product, retailing...
I had to take down both of the games I had on the iPhone due to a takedown request from Atari for copyright violations. Guess it wasn't a good idea to create a nock off of games that were from the 70s. (They were a very similar to Asteroids and Atari Combat)
It is simple:
If you send a newsletter and your unsubscribe link requires me to log in, fill out a form, or do anything for that matter, I go back to the email and just mark as spam.
If you are too lazy to make it easy to opt out, I am too lazy to help you with your email deliverability.
Unsub...
Been researching the Cetera audial algorithm after hearing about (and experiencing) the Virtual Barber Shop for the first time. The technology in itself is incredible, and it surely opens an entire world of alternative entertainment and media. It's a surprise no one's really capitalised on it yet...
Portal clone that instead of just traversing space, you do a snapshot and can connect moments in time (moving you and other things through time).
in which i rip off portal and snapshot http://www.superfundungeonrun.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph60iKWmtos
This looks very cool. Interesting concept. I wonder how well it plays out.
_scoreTag allows you to tag your posts the same way you could using twitter #hashTags
It is has a _chromeExtension which turns a _scoreTag into a link. This allows users to quickly find other posts regarding a particular topic.
Why not just use #hashTag? Well, google ignores the # symbol when i...
Calling a PHP File From HTML's Script Tag
Have you been programming in php for years and need to write some javascript, only to find you really could use a php function to solve a js problem.
Well stop before you rewrite it.
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://phpjs.org/" class="ot-anchor bidi_isolate" jslog="10929; track:c...
http://sale.images.woot.com/An_Elephant_in_Bantha_Clothing7leDetail.png
Currently #1 on Ludum Dare. Pretty crazy game.
Fun and challenging game. It requires deep thought, but not as heavy as chess and go. This is a good thing as it makes it easy to play a bunch of rounds of it without being overwhelmed.
Don't lose your marbles -- make them stronger with this classic marble strategy game from Foxmind. See mor...
This is a pretty unique game.
In it you create a fleet and send it into battle, but the catch is that you don't control anything once play begins.
Most of the actual interaction you have with the game is tweaking the ships, and you can do it in extreme detail. This is basically where you grit ...
Ha!
Fairy tales of old were pretty scary. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm047.html
This was a semi-sarcastic comment I made on how all politicians are controlled by political donations: "Maybe to remove the whole illusion, we should just literally vote with dollars. Those dollars can than be used by the govt in place of taxes. Could lead to an interesting distopia or utopia. Who...
Grizzly awesome
So my 3 year old is totally into video games (in particular a game on the wii called Excite Truck).
This game and a bunch of games on the iphone that he likes has led me to one conclusion.
Menus suck (especially if you can't read).
What would be best is a big Go button that is green and flashi...
I would love it if google allowed you to sort your stream by how often you +1 posters.
I am working on a programming game where you control an army of robots via a web api.
You can send orders to robots, or you can install javascript code in robots, and when they are out of communications range from your command center, they can use that code to work autonomously.
The robots wil...
Hi John, this seems like a good cheatsheet for you: http://startuplawyer.com/startup-issues/if-i-launched-a-startup
Going to see The Protomen tomorrow night. Totally psyched.
The first music video of The Protomen. For more info. visit http://www.protomen.com/ [Lyrics] Narrator: No one was left who could remember how it had happened, how the world had fallen under darkness. At least no one who would do anythin...
Needed a simple painting application, but with the ability to do layers, transparency, and a few of the things I take for granted in photoshop. Also needed it on Mac.
This worked well: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://seashore.sourceforge.net/The_Seashore_Project/About.html" class=...
Have you ever played the board game Diplomacy before? I am looking to start a postal game (where you mail stamped letters to each-other) where the adjudication is done via the web (there is no game master). I set up a game that starts in 6 days at the link. Join up, and send me an email with your ...
Filmed and Directed by Amy Hobby. Edited by Tony Zajkowski. Over 20 different NYC female keyboardists playing vintage keyboards at Joe McGinty's Carousel Studio in Brooklyn, NY. Available on iTunes! http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tubular-bells/id398862997 Featuring: Kaia Wong (Mixel Pixel...
Not shown on the menu bar in Hacker News, their is a page called "best," which has less updates per day, and is nice if you don't want to get too sucked in to what is "hot". <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://news.ycombinator.com/best" class="ot-anchor bidi_isolate" jslog="10929; track...
Here's something for the punk rock fans. The Misfits are releasing their first album in 12 years this October. I guess I know what to give my brother for Christmas.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-the-misfits-...
If you need to generate a sound for events (clicking on things, explosions, etc) this works great. Works on OS X, windows, and linux.
Blown away
Industrial Revolutions is the amazing new film from street trials riding star Danny Macaskill. Filmed and edited for Channel 4 's documentary Concrete Circus. Industrial Revolutions sees Danny take his incredible bike skills into an industrial train yard and some derelict building...
Speedcrunch is a great calculator application that is available on all major OSes
It works very much like a scientific calculator, with variables and complex expressions. It also gives you updates to the calculation as you are typing. Though it is seems complex, it is my favorite to use even for ...
Due to really poor sales in the app store (kinda expected since it was just an astroids clone) space rocks is now free. When I get around to it, I will post up the source code on github. It was written with JS using the canvas element for drawing. It was bundled into an iOS app using phonegap.
If...
Full of awesome
http://www.elated.com/articles/banish-javascript-in-web-forms-with-html5/
And even more really awesomeness.
http://www.elated.com/articles/7-lovely-things-about-html5-markup/
How to draw squiggles like a Hilbert.
I like this channel on turntable for electronic music.
It would be nice if they gave a nice title and description view for sharing
This is the best TANK! game ever created. In the fantastically 80's vein of classic arcade games...TANK! is simple, fun and satisfying. Play someone else on your iPhone and relive all the fun that old skool video games used to be.
NOTE: This is a two player game only (on the same device), so be...
What is this fed thing anyway? http://i.imgur.com/20wIm.jpg
Rowan Atkinson comes across an invisible drum kit while sweeping. He's not too bad with it.
http://thoughtballoonhelium.blogspot.com/2011/06/portland-oregon-trail.html
Marvel once again at the wonders of the natural world with Monty Buggershop-Hooty, author of Cooking With A Top Hat and Wilderness Ponce.
Michael Fishbach, co-founder of The Great Whale Conservancy (GWC), narrates his encounter with a young humpback whale entangled in local fishing nets. At first, the animal appeared to be dead, yet Fishbach investigated and quickly discovered that the poor creature was tangled in a fishing net. ...
Awesome.
*DISCLAIMER: Dear movie studio and Benny Benassi- this video is not intended for commercial use. It is simply a side project created for the fun of it. I like apes and monkeys, I like classic movies like this one, I like dance music, I like Benny Benassi, and I used to like glowsticks w...
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So much sexier than the more modern versions.
The late great Peggy Lee, a favorite of mine (I'm a huge Jazz fan). Peggy was a singer in The Benny Goodman Orchestra before going solo. You may also know her as the voice of the Siamese Cats in Disneys 'Lady and The Tramp.'
http://www...
So nice. I was fiddling with Gimp to edit an image, but aviary is so much easier to use.
I created a google group here:
http://groups.google.com/group/editthisinfo
from now on status messages and updates will be posted there. A blog is very much a one way form of communication, and I feel it goes against the collaborative nature of a wiki service. This group will be where problem...
After being on Dreamhost for a long time, I have switched for Slicehost. They have great uptime, cheaper prices, and allows you to do more geeky things with your webserver.
This isn't a big jab against Dreamhost though. I am still a big user of them, but their VPS service doesn't give me the...
Editthis.info has gone through a major upgrade over the last week. It has been moved to a new database system (mysql->sqlite) and has been upgraded from mediawiki 1.5.5 to 1.15.1. This is basically a 3 year jump in versions.
Some of the reasons for the upgrade:
*Stability - The massive MyS...
Editthis.info now handles foreign characters properly (just tested cyrillic and french).
For those that are a little geeky, it seems that the php function htmlentities doesn't have a multibyte string version.
There have been a lot of server errors recently, and they are the result of system resources being overwhelmed (using up system memory and processor).
I suspect that this is due to another app I have been working on - a real time web game called constantsail.com.
I am now setting up a separate ...
It seems that editthis.info was attacked by a distributor of malware. I have reverted the site code that was modified and removed the offending code they added (they add iframe tags that make it so when you visit editthis.info, you were also visiting their site in the background).
I have sinc...
So in grade school you are taught the basics of rounding. If the decimal portion of the number is < .5 round down to the integer so 5.3 becomes 5. If it is >= .5 round up, so 5.8 becomes 6.
This is well and good if you are doing something that has an even distribution after the decimal point. Bu...
I am working on a great new web game at: http://constantsail.com/ It is currently somewhere between alpha and beta phases, and I am
If ever you are dealing with a really large file in head (1GB+) and you need to grab a large segment of it (such as half the file), don't use -n option to get lines. Instead, do ls -l to find the the size of the file in bytes, figure out how many bytes you need (perhaps a portion of the of the to...
I am currently looking for users to beta test Island Warfare, which is a new game I am developing. In it you start with an empty island that you can build various types of buildings on, train soldiers, and sail off to conquer other players islands.
To sign up to become a beta tester go to: http:/...
So Dreamhost recently locked out creation of new files on the account that hosts editthis.info. It turns out that that account had 250,000+ files, and huge file systems have been a problem for them regarding stability. Almost all of the files were in the image upload...
Some of the wikis still reside on the previous server. There is now a transfer system in place. Simply go to your wiki's url and it will ask you if you want to transfer. Click the link and it will add you to the transfer queue.
If the transfer queue gets stuck (no wikis are disappearing off the ...
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UPDATE: Ok, not quite working yet. Debugging...
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Updated update: didn't really do anything, but it seems to be working now.
Editthis.info will be down from Friday May 23rd to roughly Friday May 30th. My family and I are moving from New Jersey to San Francisco, California, and it will take about a week before the server is set up out there. My goal is to have it set up in 5 days, but I think 7 is more realistic.
I wil...
The new version of cueflash is now out. It has been rewritten from the ground up with the following goals:
*Easier to add features to - my previous version was pretty poorly coded
*Decks are no longer copied when imported by new users - this created a bloated db
*People can edit each other'...
The network seems to be back up to speed. I am still going to moving off the current ISP, as I haven't been happy with their service recently.
I am currently research new ISPs since recently it has had intermittent slowness/outages. I didn't really have a problem with them when they were out for a power outage, or a downed line, or a nearby transformer bursting into flame. That is just the way the network crumbles. Now it just seems to ...
A new version of cueflash is in development and will be released shortly. It will feature deck ratings, ajax card loads (just loads the content of the cards to speed up card viewing), comments, and a cleaned up interface.
The current design (not really functional) is at:
[http://robkohr.co...
In an effort to maintain information flows during down times, I have moved the ConstantSun status blog to blogger.
Please go here for to check for updates:
http://constantsun.blogspot.com/
Thanks,
Rob
PS: Old posts will still be available [here](htt...
Constant Sail is a pirate and sailing massive multiplayer game that is in development
Island Warfare will be a game where you build up your islands and the armies on your island to go take over other user's islands
Inselkampf is a game of diplomacy pretending to be a game of war. It mimics real politics in many ways. Small nations get trampled on so that the big get bigger, and the big nations have continual face offs that lead to few actual conflicts. When conflict occurs between big nations, there are mas...
Cueflash is a study tool where you can create and share flashcards (cuecards). As you study with it, it will adapt to you and show you cards more frequently based upon how well you know them.
Editthis.info is a wiki hosting service where you can create your own wiki in seconds for free!
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Had a crazy dream where I was preparing to climb up the cliff face of a cove. After stopping at a little wooden shack that rented out the climbing equipment I headed down to the water. It was a beautiful blue and it was cold and refreshing. The cove was a deep lake that was surrounded by huge cli...
I just started a movie making group. I am pulling people together through craig's list and using yahoo groups as a forum. I also set up this site: http://moviemakers.robkohr.com
I figure this will be a fun hobby to start on. I always loved watching movies, I figure it might be intresting to make...
Went up to play diplomacy in nyc and had a good time despite losing quickly.
Just bought a new cell phone,
It is pretty cool, and has a camera on the back
So I am going to start a little blog here with images from places I visit.
U...
Put up this fine web site I also put together my image gallery. Feel
free to browse around it and leave comments and stuff.
A little while back I had a video game night. I put the photos of that
night here.
It includes the final scoreboard of tournament.
Hap...
