araroden: Harriet in her knitted bloomers. Just in time for spring. at Ted Roden

Mar 18

Harriet in her knitted bloomers.

Just in time for spring.

I'm looking for some programmers to help me out with something. If you know python or java: can you test this: bit.ly/9B4Hwk

Ted Roden

Help me test something?

I'm looking for Python (or perhaps Java) programmers to help me test something:

blah = """V'z|ybbxvat sbe nabgure FZNYY tebhc
bs|crbcyr gb grpu erivrj zl B'Ervyyl obbx ba gur ernygvzr jro.
Vagrerfgrq|rznvy zr ng grqebqra+ernygvzr-grpu-erivrj@tznvy.pbz
...|Lbh'yy unir gb npghnyyl ybbx ng gur pbqr
naq|znxr fher vg qbrfa'g fgvax
gbb|onq (gubhtu lbh qba'g unir gb npghnyyl eha
gur|pbqr ba rirel rknzcyr). Vs lbh unir
gvzr|gb qb guvf va gur irel arne shgher. Cyrnfr uryc!"""
 
def l33t_cracker(s, n=13):
    r = ""
    for c in s:
        cc = c
        if cc.isalpha():
            cc = cc.lower()
            o = ord(cc)
            ro = (o+n) % 122
            if ro == 0: ro = 122
            if ro < 97: ro += 96
            cc = chr(ro)
        r = ''.join((r,cc))
    return r
print ""
for x in xrange(30): print "*",
print ""
print ""
lines = blah.split("\n")
for x in lines:
    for y in x.split("|"):
        print "%s " % l33t_cracker(y),
 
print ""
print ""
for x in xrange(30): print "*",
 
print ""

I love that in the final blog post to joelonsoftware.com, Joel goes out on a limb to proclaim that the technology powering is latest product is, in fact, a good thing.

Uncle O’Grimacey

Breaking Bad?

Mar 17

heykurt:

I donated to Ted’s Charity because I want to see him turn into Walter White from Breaking Bad.

For work, I’m looking through some code that has been abandoned by it’s original maintainer. The only documentation is a Microsoft Word file.

None of this software would run comfortably on Windows.

I love Panic. I think they’re great. Having said that…

I know that I’ve picked on Panic’s Transmit app in the past, but they’re considered so good at UI and sometimes I have trouble seeing it. Transmit is one app that needs a lot of polish. Example:

Drag one folder of mp3’s or something to your hard drive from a remote server. Then do it again from the same window/server. You suddenly have two, totally separate progress bars and two different queues that are not tied together in any way. So in order to check on the progress of your downloads, you need to keep an eye on two different windows.

I'm shaving my luxorious hair tonight to support kids with cancer. Unless you like kids having cancer, donate now: bit.ly/bYo0CP

Ted Roden

Mar 16

"Writing doesn't actually take that long. It's the long stretches of procrastinating that take up most of your time." - bit.ly/8Zvcp9

Ted Roden

ack: a grep for programmers

Pretty nice grep-like tool. Especially if (somehow) grep is tailored enough for a programmer. Among it’s touted features:

Command name is 25% fewer characters to type!

I just noticed that the featured blogs on the directory pages are paid placements. Kind of a a great little feature.

One dude seems to have bought space on several different topics, he should chill out (refresh a few times on each, you should see a pattern).

Although, I have a feeling their not all paid spots. Fred Wilson has one of the featured in “Entrepreneurs,” which while perfect placement topic-wise, would probably not have been a valuable ad buy for him.

I’m shaving my head for money tomorrow. Once I have all of your money, I’m going to give that money to kids with cancer. It’s some sort of charity thing called “St. Baldrick’s.”

Feel free to donate, and by “feel free to donate,” I mean “click here and donate lest I make the lord unleash another storm to ruin all of your apartments, again.”

webkitbits:

Sergey Chikuyonok has created a beautiful Ambilight video effect with HTML5 and Canvas.

Amazing ambient lighting behind an HTML5 video player (using a canvas): bit.ly/cV2trs

Ted Roden

The Guardian on my job at NYT R+D: bit.ly/d48zzb - Also highlights tons of the awesome work from NYT proper. @nytimes represent!

Ted Roden

Hairball just got this:

git push origin master

Mar 15

"Promise Roger your strawberry kisses" - enj.im/374588 (and other vintage Maybelline ads)

Ted Roden

Mar 14

Do you like me, hate cancer, or both? Pay money to a bunch of little kids and I'll shave my head: bit.ly/bSBS0F

Ted Roden