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 are kaput. Here’s how to make your own quicktags.js and do whatever you want with it.
Wordpress, hacks, markdown, quicktags
I know some people have been moving away from WordPress and toward blogging solutions like Tumblr. The number one reason I hear for making this move is that WordPress gets to complicated once you start customizing. Distractingly so. I don’t disagree.
Wordpress, plugin, review
Another quick experiment. Honestly, I don’t use pluggable functions in jQuery nearly as much as I should, so this is really just a brain exercise to get myself used to it. This one, called Pully, lets you specify a selector to have its contents cloned and inserted as a pull quote in your text.
experiments, javascript, jquery, plugin
These VoodooPad Script Plugins are the result of two opposing traits of mine: laziness and curiosity. Laziness because, well, why should I have to move my hand all the way over to my mouse to go to the previous day in my VoodooPad log? Curiosity because I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing in Lua and wanted to see if I could do something just slightly more interesting than my “Go to Today” script.
logging, scripting, voodoopad
And now for something entirely different… I wanted to test out GarageBand ‘11 as a musical scratchpad, so I put this together last night (also my first recording with an electric guitar). It’s mostly first takes (which is especially obvious on the vocal tracks) because I wanted to see how well the app worked for just getting ideas out of my head. My conclusion: it works really well. The Groove Sync and Flex Timing fixed a lot of little mistakes. If only it had an autotuner (…
music, personal, something precious
Apparently I missed the memo: TabLinks 2.0 was actually approved by Apple in September. I’ve been sitting on my hands and just recently bothered to write them and ask what was up. Miscommunication, I guess, but it’s live in the updater now, so if you have 1.3 installed, it should update to 2.0. If you have automatic updates turned off, just check the updates section at the bottom of your extensions preferences.
extension, safari, tablinks
I just discovered Sparkup (via NetTuts+). It adds the one thing I find lacking in Zen Coding: the ability to traverse backward in a shortcut (among several other improvements).
html, textmate
Marco.org - The Mac App Store isn’t for today’s Mac developers Marco’s take on the announcement of Apple’s Mac App Store, and what it could really mean for developers and the user community.
bookmarks
I saw a man driving down a busy street the other day, with a cigarette in one hand and a cell phone in the other. I was driving toward him, and in the brief period between his coming into my field of view and his passing by, I observed him attempting to juggle the aforementioned accessories as he tried to downshift. I didn’t get to see the final outcome of the procedure, but his panic was clear as I watched him pass. I laughed, but then the gravity of the situation hit me. This man&rsquo…
commentary, productivity
I found a great new service via Smashing Magazine today: historio.us. It’s a bookmarking service with some seriously impressive twists.
bookmarking, productivity, quicklink
A quick script in response to Donald’s query on my TextExpander Experiments post. He wanted to know if I could make the bit.ly script which expands to a bit.ly-shortened version of a url in the clipboard work with an authenticated account, presumably for click tracking. Well, sure! Just adjust the script below to contain your bit.ly username and your API key (in lines 6 & 7), and replace the existing script in the TextExpander experiments bundle with this one (or create a new snippet with…
bitly, ruby, scripting, textexpander, url shortener
This is a song I recorded a couple of years ago. I like it, although it’s a bit dark. Yes, even darker than my usual. You may be happy to know that — since getting my new electric guitar — I’ve actually been writing some happier music. I haven’t recorded any of it yet, but hope to find some time soon.
music, personal, recording, something precious
I recently wrote a tiny web app called PromptDown to let me drop in some Markdown (or plain text) and use it as a teleprompter for screencast voiceovers. I wasn’t going to put any more time into it, as it did what I needed. Then it started to bug me that it didn’t work on my iPad, which could actually be really handy. So my lunch break fine, and an extra half an hour went to making it work a little more smoothly as an iPhone/iPad app. It’s also ready to install as a web app…
css, experiments, ipad, iphone, javascript, jquery, markdown
