Reed-Kellogg Diagrammer It’s SilverLight, and it’s butt ugly, but it’s so awesome. It automatically diagrams any sentence you give it, it with rollovers to tell you what each branch is. I’m having way more fun with it than I did when I was in grade school. Plus, my lexicon of dirty words is bigger, so the sentences are far more interesting. readown - Project Hosting on Google Code Just stumbled on this. It shows a preview of your Markdown file, and watches the…
bookmarks
I know, I said I was done with the Lorem Ipsum generators. Then Dr. Drang responded with a brilliant solution which doesn’t require Internet access to generate some beautiful dummy text. I set it up and ran it myself, and loved the results. Then I found myself wanting to expand it to do more, such as multiple paragraphs, list items and other things I use regularly when making dummy layouts. The problem is that I’m only good for one-liners in Perl, and didn’t want to take take…
experiments, lipsum, ruby, textexpander
Ok, this is the last TextExpander Lipsum post, I promise (with my fingers crossed). I’m posting a full TextExpander group with all of the TextExpander random Lorem Ipsum generators I’ve posted so far (LoremIpsum.com, LoremIpscream), plus some new ones based on the Kwisatz Haderach1 generator. That one seemed to make a few people pretty happy (looking at MacSparky). It combines word lists from various “universes,” including Dune, Foundation, Ringworld, Harry Potter and Doctor Who (…
experiments, html, lipsum, snippet, textexpander
I put up a dummy replacement for the Winona Chiropractic site yesterday. I didn’t expect many people to see it, except hopefully the client. It’s gone viral on Twitter in the meantime, and I just wanted to verify that yes, it was real.
freelancing, personal, webdesign
I usually get up an hour or two before I start my work day and “play.” Playtime usually results in half-finished scripts and deleted git branches, but sometimes I do something simple and useful (to me). Wednesday was Bash fun, and here’s this morning’s project: LaunchBar actions to url encode and decode strings1. If you run them outside of LaunchBar, they’ll encode/decode your clipboard, replacing what’s in your clipboard with the result, so they have multiple…
applescript, experiments, launchbar
This is probably going to seem stupid, but every time I decide to do something in Bash that should only take me a minute, I end up losing an hour. I obsess over “better” ways to do everything. Not surprisingly, my motivation often wanes before I actually find the better, more elegant way, so these little projects end up lackluster. Fortunately, I end up learning all kinds of new, mostly unrelated things in the process, which is what happened this evening. It’s amazing to me that I use…
experiments, scripting, terminal
Backbone.js What’s not to love about key-value models, custom events, collections and enumeration, views with declarative event handling, and a RESTful JSON interface? … My doctor says I have an MVC deficiency, anyway. Duck Duck Go Zero-click Info API Duck Duck Go is my new default search engine. I love it to death. The API for topic summaries and categories is pretty cool, too. Also see the Zero Click jQuery plugin for example usage. Eight Ways to Combine Typefaces &…
bookmarks
It turns out it was me that was broken, not the Loremipscream API. That API can return just plain text, so the shell scripts are much more readable than trying to hack apart XML in Bash. You can get a list of “flavors” from the website, or just from the command line. That will also give you the slugs you need to use when calling them.
api, experiments, lipsum, scripting, snippet, textexpander
I hate it when I get an idea for something simple and end up spending an hour figuring out how to do it. I figured I’d make a post out of it to make myself feel better. It all started with my being disappointed that the Loripscream API wasn’t working. I did a little digging and found that had a not-well-publicized XML feed you can pull from. That’s where the fun began.
experiments, lipsum, scripting, textexpander
Readability Blog – Enjoy reading, support writing. Neat. Pure Reader for Safari – Na’Design If you dig Reeder’s stylish interface, you can bring it to Google Reader, too. This theme is gorgeous. I’ll still be using Reeder most of the time, but this was too cool not to mention. Also available for Chrome and Greasemonkey (which works well with Fluid, I checked). Applying Color Schemes Requires Seeing Them Anew – Webdesigner Depot A great piece on…
bookmarks
