Sep 08
2011

Thanks to a comment from Evaryont on the original SMS from the command line with Google Voice post, a problem that was causing Error 500s in the script has been solved.

Aug 12
2011

Apple has disabled the ability to copy and paste text (or even select it) in the Mac App Store. This is fine for descriptions, you can just view the web preview and get what you need (just right click the icon in the App Store app and choose Copy Link to paste into your browser). You can even get to the first few reviews that way. Marked users have left some insanely nice reviews, though…

Dec 06
2010

Updated: the download link on this page now goes to the fourth revision, more information here.

After my experiment last night, and finding DivineDominion’s already-awesome fork of Notational Velocity, I decided to port my changes over to his fork and work from there. So here’s the current version of the final product, with the intial visual changes, CSS…

Nov 19
2010

I needed a script send an SMS today, and I found a very handy post at sudocode to send one via Google Voice, using PHP. I wanted to make it a little more command-line-friendly, so I rewrote it (ham-handedly) in Ruby and added some options parsing to it. It’s designed for—and only tested on—OS X, but may work fine elsewhere.

Nov 06
2010

You may have cause, at some point, to modify the behavior of the QuickTags in the HTML editor of WordPress (the non-WYSIWYG, non-“Visual” editor). There are a lot of tutorials available for editing the quicktags.js file in the WordPress wp-includes folder, but they all seem to want you to edit the file directly. That’s a Bad Idea™ because the next time you upgrade, your changes…

Jul 01
2010

I have an admin username (it’s not admin) which I use to manage my WordPress blog, and an editor user with which I write posts and leave comments. Sometimes, though, I get confused, lazy or both, and end up leaving comments as my admin user. This rather defeats the purpose of using a non-default admin username, which is generally done for security purposes (if they can’t guess the…

Jun 17
2010

For a quick “how-to” on using the Antique (or any) Safari Reader hack, see the related article in the HowTo section.

This will be the last release of Antique, I think, barring a few minor fixes (follow @ttscoff for updates on this and other projects). You can download it here. The code is completely open source, if anyone wants to continue the project feel…