I haven't been thinking much lately.
iLounge’s iPhone OS 4 Breakdown
11th of April
Safari. “Google” has been replaced next to the keyboard’s space bar with the word “Search.” Ouch.
This makes a lot of sense, as to my knowledge, this is the only time the submit button on the keyboard is something other than “return”, “search” or “go” in Apple’s apps. It also appears to be allowing for the user to change search providers, though I’m not sure that this would be a good move UX-wise.
Edit: Forgot to mention “go” the first time.
WordPress 3.0 and Custom Post Types
3rd of April
This morning, I switched the theme on here, Beached, over from using meta fields to WordPress 3.0′s new custom post types. Aside from having to do a manual SQL query to covert the posts, it has worked wonderfully. This also enables me to have different permalinks for links (for example, this post is /92/wp3-custom-post-types/, while a link with the same title would be /link/wp3-custom-post-types/), and in the future, other fun stuff like separate feeds for links and posts, with one combined one. It’s definitely a very powerful feature.
Poisonous People
1st of April
One of my favourite talks I’ve seen is this one by Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman, and I’ve found it increasingly applicable to the WordPress hackers mailing list, as I’ve made clear.
Holidays
30th of March
Apologies for the lack of posts for the last couple of days. I’ve just started school holidays, so I’ve been asleep for the majority of them. Have these two links to make up for it.
ExtraLives’ 64 Hours of Nintendo 64
30th of March
ExtraLives is raising money for Save the Children with their 64 hour marathon of N64 games. They’re currently down to the final hours of it, so only Tim (the organiser) is left playing, but you can still donate, and watch him suffer from the lack of sleep.
Aristo, for jQuery UI
30th of March
Someone has ported Cappucino’s theme, Aristo, to jQuery UI. I will definitely be using this at some point.
Indistinguishable From Magic
25th of March
Arthur C. Clarke’s third law of prediction:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I think Photoshop CS5′s new Content Aware Fill successfully fulfils this requirement. Via John Gruber and reddit.
Google.cn Now Redirects to Google.com.hk
23rd of March
We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services. We will therefore be carefully monitoring access issues, and have created this new web page, which we will update regularly each day, so that everyone can see which Google services are available in China.
As chaddles on reddit pointed out, if this were applied to Australia, Australians would be redirected to Google.co.nz. A scary thought indeed.
Font Squirrel’s Font Face Kits
21st of March
Font Squirrel has a large collection of freely embeddable font faces, available in all necessary formats in one download. The kits also include a handy copy-paste-able stylesheet, set up to work for Firefox, Safari, Chrome and IE. This has been immensely handy.
Our Enemy Is SVN
19th of March
Our enemy is not each other, [...] we all want to do cool Python projects, [...] but this is our enemy. [SVN] is 100 times worse.
Scott Chacon on Hg vs Git. I agree that Mercurial and Git should forget their differences in order to convert Subversion users. (For some reason, I still use Subversion on occasion. I really need to change that.)