“If you bought $1000 of stock a year ago, you would now have:
But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the recycling REFUND… You would have $214.00 in cash.”
(reddit)
Nerd Alert: I’ve been playing around with Callback URLs a lot lately. Essentially this means that I can write programs that accept SMS messages.
For example, I now text things like “$7 sandwich” to 74433 which is the short code for Shifd. Shifd receives that message and promptly hits a URL that I gave it. That URL adds the $7 sandwich to a google spreadsheet. It’s a super painless way to track my expenses.
Next I’m going to hook it up to some home automation stuff at my apartment. “Turn on the air conditioner” would be great… if I had AC.
The last time a Cubs pitcher threw a no hitter was in the early 70s. The market promptly took a dive.
It happened again this past Sunday.
The lady and I are going to Portland tonight. It’s our first time back there since leaving for NYC in a rented truck super early in the morning all those years ago.
After some sightseeing and various other activities, we’ll be heading out for drinks tomorrow night. Do you live in Portland? Do we know you? We’d love to see you! We’re heading to Bailey’s Taproom at 8pm on Saturday. More info on the shifdlet.
I was able to distract the guys working on shifd long enough to slide a couple of commits past them.
So for today, I'll just talk about one of the features I added when the rest of the staff wasn't looking. You can now edit and save shifd content using familiar key commands. 1
First, because it was easy, I added vi shortcuts. So i will put you in insert mode. It opens up the text box, focuses it and waits patiently. When you've added your text, you can hit [escape] :wq and it'll save and close it.
Adding vi shortcuts made me feel dirty, so I quickly added emacs commands too. The emacs version is pretty much only useful on a Mac, because control-s means something very different on windows/linux. To start a new shifd note, you can press [control]-x [control]-f2. To save the note, press [control]-x [control]-s. Not bad, eh?
There are a couple other shortcuts as well. For example, t will show/hide the input box, but those aren't quite on the same level of nerdiness, so I won't mention them all here. Go try it out for yourself.
1. This stuff, like most of the internet, is disabled in Internet Explorer.
2. I know that this would generally prompt you in emacs, but you get the gist of it.
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