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I like Instagram, but it's not as open as I'd like it to be

So here's how I got around that, and how I'm using Instagram today. I always held off installing Instagram because I felt it was another black hole to post my pictures to and friends and family viewing my pictures used Flickr. When I visited Portland earlier in 2011, Petra showed me indeed it could automatically post to [...]

Antisocial spaces on Twitter

Hopefully this doesn't become a meme instead of what I intend for this blog post. There's a way to consume at @reply timeline in Twitter by just stuffing a shed load of new lines with anything at the end (like a period). If you're a twitter app developer, please consider removing multiple white space in row. [...]

Full Frontal T-shirts in Tia's name

Full Frontal 2010 ran last Friday and (as I secretly hoped) was a huge success. As with last year, we had a good number of people asking how they could get one of the Full Frontal t-shirts (as sported by yours truly). And this year we're giving the opportunity to get your hands on one, [...]

What is a Polyfill?

A polyfill, or polyfiller, is a piece of code (or plugin) that provides the technology that you, the developer, expect the browser to provide natively. Flattening the API landscape if you will.

Hacking Twitter's reply system

I'm only writing about this because I still see some tweets coming out of Twitter that are intended for everyone, but end up just going to a select few. This trick is pretty well used, but hopefully it'll help those people who haven't spotted it yet.

Why Firebug sucks more than IE6

Updated because I got tired of the crap I was getting for venting.

Slicehost, Node.js & WebSockets

I've been looking for a small hosting provider that I could run node.js on to test out some WebSocket experiments, and this is my account so that you also can have a play.