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kickstarter: Thur, 5:31am: Double Fine Adventure reaches its...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:16:19 -0500

Thur, 5:31am: Double Fine Adventure reaches its $400,000 goal in just eight hours. It’s the fastest start to any project in Kickstarter history.

Thur, 7:33am: We notice that Double Fine creator Tim Schafer stayed up all night watching it happen (us too!).
We had a crazy 24 hours over here at Kickstarter HQ. Yancey broke it all down by the minute — check it out.

Gets me pumped about young companies.

scottlava: “The Beast got it.”

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:14:56 -0500

scottlava:

“The Beast got it.”

bashirsultani: Quit Smoking

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:20:27 -0500

bashirsultani:

Quit Smoking

Wow.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:36:51 -0500

Wow.

mynt - Python-powered static site generator

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:29:14 -0500

mynt - Python-powered static site generator:

thechangelog:

There’s no shortage of static site generators lately, but most are very blog-focused. Mynt from Andrew Fricke aims to deliver true CMS flexibility in a Python package. Mynt supports custom date and tag-based archives, Jinja templates, Markdown posts, and YAML front matter.

Check out the nicely done docs site for usage and options, or drop into #mynt on IRC.

New Smarty Plugin - Attr

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:00:53 -0500

New Smarty Plugin - Attr:

Hey,

Created a new Smarty plugin that makes it easy to add attributes to html elements based on properties of an object.

attr

This attr function is meant to shorten the syntax used to set various html attributes more specifically the class attribute. It was inspired by the bindAttr helper in ember.js. You provide a target object and that is used to grab properties from. If the value passed in for the attribute is a property on the target the value of that property is returned. If it is not a valid property then the string literal will be used instead.

When dealing with a class attribute it acts a little differently. First of all you can pass in a space delimited list of property names or values. If the property is a boolean it will dashize the property name some_bool => is-some_bool. If you don’t want that you can pass in an alternate value for when the bool is true some_bool:this-was-true => this-was-true. If the bool is false the class won’t be added to the attribute.

# Sample object
$obj->active     = true;
$obj->title      = 'Whaddup';
$obj->status     = 'pending';
$obj->public_url = 'http://example.com';

template file

{attr target=$obj class="active active:this-is-active status crap" href="public_url"}
> class="is-active this-is-active pending" href="http://example.com"

Options

There are a few options you can pass in to customize the output of the generated attributes string.

enclose

default: “

{attr target=$obj class="active" enclose="'"}
> class='is-active'

delimiter

default: ” ” (single space)

{attr target=$obj class="active" href="public_url" delimiter="\n"}
> class="is-active"\nhref="http://example.com"

sort

default: false

{attr target=$obj href="public_url" class="active" sort=true}
> class="is-active" href="http://example.com"

Check out the github repo to download it and provide any feedback. Thanks!

Photo

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:14:29 -0500

damiano.braga: SHIT

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:52:22 -0500

damiano.braga: SHIT
damiano.braga: they didnt let me close my account
damiano.braga: because i use the debit card today
damiano.braga: that's bulsshit
damiano.braga: bullshit
Derek Reynolds: what the fuuuuuck
Derek Reynolds: that's dumb
Derek Reynolds: did you kill them?
damiano.braga: no i was polite
damiano.braga: i just spit on the table

Photo

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:11:03 -0500

Photo

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:51:20 -0500

Moved to San Francisco and no longer need my car. Looking to...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:56:00 -0500

Moved to San Francisco and no longer need my car. Looking to sell a 2011 Ford Fiesta w/ very low mileage. I’ve owned it for a little over a year now, and have taken really great care of it. I love this car, and am bummed to be getting rid of it, but my loss is your gain.

Specs

make: Ford
model: Fiesta
year: 2011
color: Black
miles: 13,000
transmission: manual 5 speed
Front-wheel drive.

Features

Microsoft Sync
- Play music via blue tooth from your phone (this is my favorite feature).
- Voice operated commands (answer phone, make calls, play music).
- Turn by Turn GPS.
Plug in a USB device to play music from.
CD Player.
AM/FM Radio.
Two power sockets.
5 cup holders.
Power Locks/Windows.
Lots of trunk space.
Display how many miles until empty.
Display mpg/average speed.

Notes

Have never spilled anything in the car.
Rarely brought fast food in it.
There is minor damage on the front bumper from someone backing in to it while parked.
I have most if not all maintenance documents.
Passed smog test.
Have had no mechanical issues/failures.

PRICE

$14,500 OBO

More Photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/111866066735022395763/FordFiesta2011?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCP2b4sv764qziwE&feat=directlink

As noted above I’m in San Francisco now so my mom will be helping me out with showing the car to anyone interested.

If you have any questions about the car or want to schedule a time to check it out feel free to email or call 949 407 8125.

Thanks!

Derek

Put Display to Sleep With Alfred

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:41:59 -0400

Buh-Bye is an Alfred extension that allows you to put your display to sleep.

You’ll need 2 things for this to work:

Set your top-left hot corner to put the display to sleep.
And the Alfred Powerpack.

Install the plugin by double clicking the icon. Invoke by typing bye.

It works by executing an apple script originally found at http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100418152304108.

britefutures: Just putting this here so when I look back at the...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:23:39 -0400

britefutures:

Just putting this here so when I look back at the archives, I’ll know today we lost an amazing man. RIP Steve. 

robsheridan: I knew it!

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:56:44 -0400

robsheridan:

I knew it!

gtmcknight: Today we used Jonathan’s Starbucks Card to get...

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:54:24 -0400

gtmcknight:

Today we used Jonathan’s Starbucks Card to get Kaitlyn a free Iced Caramel Macchiato. More about the project:

Hi! I’m Jonathan Stark. You can download this picture of my Starbucks card to your phone and buy coffee at Starbucks with it. Seriously. My card gets charged, you don’t. Details are here.

If you’re feeling generous, you can also add money to my Starbucks card by doing this and enjoy some serious good karma.

Jonathan’s Card is an experiment in social sharing of physical goods using digital currency on mobile phones. I stumbled on the idea while doing research for a blog post about Broadcasting Mobile Currency.

Based on the similarity to the “take a penny, leave a penny” trays at convenience stores in the US, I’ve adopted a similar “get a coffee, give a coffee” terminology for Jonathan’s Card.

Also worth checking out The Atlantic’s post: Charting a High-Tech ‘Get a Coffee, Give a Coffee’ Experiment

Update: There’s now an article on CNN about it.

Such a rad idea. I am all about these social projects revolving around the idea of common decency. Life is so much easier when you can inherently trust people.

ben: The censors missed this apparently. This show was great....

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:12:21 -0400

ben:

The censors missed this apparently. This show was great. (via VHX)

Deployinator - Deploy with Style, by Etsy

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:16:13 -0400

Deployinator - Deploy with Style, by Etsy:

thechangelog:

I am super excited to make this post.

One of my favorite engineering blogs is Code as Craft. Etsy is one of my favorite startups, they’ve got cool people working there, they help people make and sell neat things, and contribute a lot back to the community.

A while ago, they mentioned that they had an in-house, custom deployment tool. And they were thinking about open sourcing it. I’m really fascinated by what (by now) is being hailed as “DevOps,” and so I was really interested to see what they were building.

And then I waited.

And now, they’ve released it. From their GitHub, it’s just a little Sinatra app that you can run. It has the concept of ‘stacks,’ so you can roll things out in waves if you’d like. They give an example of having a ‘search’ stack and a ‘web’ stack. Each stack can have environments, so you have ‘search staging’ and ‘search production,’ for example.

It’s a bit light on documentation at the moment, and since it came out under an hour ago, I have yet to try it out for myself. But I’m super excited to, and wanted to share. Bust out those fork buttons!

[GitHub] [README]

http://9elements.com/io/?p=620

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:27:25 -0400

http://9elements.com/io/?p=620:

Dope live data visualization is dope.

Digging the new tumblr iOS app.

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:23:03 -0400

Digging the new tumblr iOS app.

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/exquisite_embroidered_portraits_by_daniel_kornrumpf_/

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:08:23 -0400

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/exquisite_embroidered_portraits_by_daniel_kornrumpf_/