August 2008
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Accessing Tumblr Data
Mostly as a reference for myself, I’ve summarised the types of data we extract from Tumblr, and highlighted the few areas where support is inconsistent across the methods provided.
I’ve noted previously, for example, that while we can get content by post type using the Tumblr API, the same can’t be achieved using a formatted URL. Conversely, there is now a URL format for...
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The Decade of the Dude →
Rolling Stone’s Andy Greene on how The Big Lebowski became the most worshipped comedy of its generation (full text not yet online). The fact they’re triple-dipping with yet another special edition in September notwithstanding, this is still my favourite comedy ever. Impressive that it’s made twice its box office take on DVD, too. (via Peter McLennan)
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IE Death March →
Show your support for dropping IE6. I like it. (via Jonic Linley)
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“That this restriction is not yet enforced at a technical level (such as is the...”
– John Gruber rains on OpenClip’s parade. The ability for iPhone apps to read from each other’s sandboxes was never sanctioned by Apple and has been removed in version 2.1 of the OS. Hopefully the excitement around this will mean Apple bumps copy and paste up its priority list.
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Daytum →
“A home for collecting and communicating your daily data. Begin tracking anything you can count and display the results immediately… or just look around and see what other members are recording.”
Nicholas Felton (aided by Ryan Case) brings the flavour of his annual reports to this web app, currently in private beta. (via Mat Wiseman)
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“Unless I’m missing something about how [OpenClip] works, or I’m misreading the...”
– Marco Arment delves a little deeper into open source iPhone copy and paste project OpenClip and believes it’s only SDK-kosher on a technicality.
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OpenClip →
A non-profit, open source implementation of copy and paste for the iPhone, OpenClip uses an area of the filesystem to enable participating apps to share the contents of a common clipboard. A small number of apps have pledged support, and until Apple has its own version this may come in handy from time to time. (via Cameron Hunt)
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“Aw, I didn’t know anyone cared so much.”
– Tumblr’s Marco Arment reblogging my post about Ryan McGeary’s Timeago jQuery plugin. To the contrary, it’s just this sort of attention to detail that sets Tumblr apart from the rest.
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“Yes my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that...”
– Jules Verne’s novel The Mysterious Island (1874–5) was the genesis of the hydrogen economy, but aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin dispels the science in a long, technical and fascinating article for The New Atlantis, preferring ethanol and methanol as viable alternatives to the “hydrogen...
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Timeago →
Great little jQuery plugin by Ryan McGeary to display ISO 8601 date and time strings as plain-English “fuzzy” timestamps like those used on Tumblr (eg, “posted 1 day ago”). (via Script & Style)
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Long Reply →
When 140 characters isn’t enough for a Twitter reply, enter your longer message into this site, then paste the resulting URL into your tweet instead. Another Google App Engine project from the master of the microsite, John Ballinger.
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“Every time Matthew Buchanan’s posts come up on my dashboard, I think his Tumblr...”
– A gem discovered via Google Blog Search.
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“The dark and damaged superheroes of Warner Brothers’ Watchmen, set for release...”
– Michael Cieply reporting for the New York Times. (via John Gruber)
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BG Patterns →
Web app for producing tiled background images.
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“It is very hard to take Microsoft’s EOT arguments seriously when their own...”
– Mozilla developer Robert O’Callahan makes some salient points in the EOT versus @font-face debate. I’m hereby reconsidering my position.
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“I love doing little things that almost nobody will notice, such as making...”
– Tumblr’s Marco Arment on perfecting the small details, and the anticlimax of launching Tumblr Search.
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Tumblr Search
The Tumblr folks have released an integrated search for individual tumblelogs. I’ve implemented it here and it works superbly. I use a few lines of JavaScript to convert the standard textfield into an OS X-style search widget for Webkit browsers like Safari.
Here’s the code required to add a search form to your theme:
<form action="/search" method="get">
<input...
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Face Your Manga →
Create a custom avatar image using this great little Flash app, and have it emailed to you as a JPEG file. I love the way they suggest I should “ask for authorization in order to insert [their] link on [my] web site”. Seems to be a huge missed opportunity not to have a version that could be embedded into forum software, or an API of some sort. (via Peter Asquith)
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“Just last week, I purchased not one, but two t-shirts adorned with nothing more...”
– Dan Cederholm loves ampersands. I sported this ampersand tee to last night’s meetup in solidarity.
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“Formerly, the task was to supply the things that men wanted. The new necessity...”
– Samuel Strauss, 1924 (via Justin Ouellette)
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“It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0...”
– Steve Jobs in a company-wide email to staff. (via John Gruber)
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WatchOne And Twenty, a passage from A.E. Housman’s “A Shropshire Lad” by Scott Garner. I’ve added this and a several others to my Vimeo channel, Nice Type.
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“They had illustrations of the premises on their business cards and sometimes...”
– New Zealand typeface designer Kris Sowersby compares the type foundries of old with the modern-day realities of his profession, in an interview with Rose Hoare for Sunday magazine. It’s a nicely weighted piece that explains the design process in layman’s terms without being...
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Font Embedding →
A resource for designers, developers and typeface creators on font usage, technology and licensing issues. Hosted by Ascender Corporation so will eventually sell EOT licenses, but contains fairly good information and resources as well.
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