If not the saddest song I’ve ever written, “Junky Angel” is at least in the top 5. I’m not always this much of a downer, but I really needed to get this one up here as I start publishing my more recent work, mostly because this song in particular lays a historical and emotional backdrop for the journey and growth that follows.
music, personal, recording, something precious
This is a bugfix release of Instapaper Beyond for Safari which brings the version up to 1.8.6. It fixes a few visual glitches, but most importantly it restores the functionality of the text style menu at the top of a read page, allowing you to set and remember the font, size, width and line spacing of your text view.
extension, instapaper, instapaper beyond, safari
Safari 5 has brought several solutions for managing lists of open tabs, from the simple (like my TabLinks extension) to full session-management capabilities (see the beautiful Sessions extension). However, I’ve found I still like using my EverSave script in many situations, primarily because it allows me to annotate, tag and sync my important sessions for later retrieval. One thing’s been bugging me, though, and that’s the inability to do a mass restore on a tab list (i.e…
applescript, evernote, safari, service, snow leopard
A couple of very cool Safari Extensions came down the pipe today, both geared toward web developers and code monkeys. The two of them combined make viewing source in Safari a whole lot better. I love doing web development in Safari, and the Web Inspector pretty well covers the Firebug front for me, but these two extensions are going to make life much easier.
extension, safari, source
A good friend of mine, Christina Warren, just published a piece on Mashable / Dev & Design about TextMate themes, and it warms my heart to know there are other people as dedicated to this aging text editor as I am. She also made her collection available on GitHub, so check that out if you’re in the market for a new look.
design, textmate, themes
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 admin’s username, it makes it that much harder to hack the admin account).
Wordpress, comments, functions.php, hacks
While I normally keep my blogging pretty technical, I’ve decided to start sharing some of my more personal projects, just to see what happens. I’ve been (slowly) working on a few songs for a very low-budget EP, and this is the first one I’ve “finished,” per my own standards, anyway.
music, personal, recording, something precious
I just posted version 1.3 of TabLinks. It doesn’t fix all of the things I eventually want to fix, but it does do some rudimentary entity encoding that allows you to actually use HTML tags in the templates. I had said that would work as a template, but it didn’t. Now it does.
extension, safari, tablinks
There was a nice mention of Antique today over at PimpMySafari.com. Thanks, Scott! Despite having sworn off the Reader hacking, I’ve actually been continuing development, making tweaks and expanding functionality. My ultimate goal is still to find a way to override the stylesheet via a global page in an extension, turning it from a hack into something a little more legitimate. If I can’t pull that off, though, I’ll have to share the current version again as a hack… I…
antique, safari
I have most of the websites I work on set up with separate development (usually local1) and production/deployment servers. It’s pretty easy to keep straight when I’m first designing a site, but going back later and making changes can cause some confusion with all the refreshing and dealing with caches and all. So I’ve been using a trick to make it clear which version I’m loading at any given time.
css, php, webdesign
