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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.

HTML5 vs. Flash

First of all I wanted to make the title of this post "HTML5 and Flash", but I know it's going to bait more readers if I say versus. I should state for the record that for the foreseeable future I think Flash has a valid place on the web, and I don't personally see it [...]

A better Twitter search

If you've not noticed already the search in Twitter has been downgraded to 7 days history. In fact, that changed some time ago. I've had the good fortune to be able to ask Twitter employees directly about the history via attending Devnest and I've been assured the history is being kept. That doesn't solve [...]

dConstruct 2009 & Barcamp Brighton 4

This last week has been a huge social/talky/knowledge festival for me. It comprised of dConstruct 2009 and my first attendance at any barcamp: Barcamp Brighton 4.

Saving Figure & Detail

In finding that the legend element simply doesn't work inside both details and figure, myself and others been keen to find a solution.