category archive: tech

mini-project: typeaheadtoggle

Tonight I got my motivation up to build a very simple Firefox extension that I’ve been wanting for a while. It’s all explained over here on its own page: http://rob.lifford.org/typeaheadtoggle/

hullo, what’s this?

Just checking out the QuickPress feature in WordPress 2.7. This might actually get me to write a quick thought down now and then, if it wasn’t for Twitter and Facebook.

we tweet, therefore we are

I’m snipping this and posting it here just so I have a place to refer people when they ask, as they sometimes do, what the hell the appeal is of Twitter (for me, at least). This nails it:
Twitter is a social network, yes, but it’s a social network without the superpoke scrabtaculous zombie noise and, [...]