Code Articles
Relatively Simple RSS Aggregation
I needed something that was simple, cached hourly, displayed various encodings well and worked with RSS and Atom formats. Most importantly, I wanted something I could install on my own server, and it needed to be community oriented (not designed for a single reader).
Low-Bandwidth user experience
I am thinking about how web developers can become more invested in the ultra-low-bandwidth user experience.
Understanding a community tag: the history of nptech
Recently there has been a lot of discussion among the nonprofit technology geeks about the use (and usefulness) of the tag nptech.
Trying to Quit
But it's exhausting, distracting, and inseparable from the cult of efficiency. It takes you away from humans, mashes your nose into an LCD all night, and leaves you with a delusional sense of total control over your environment.
Kestrel update.
We'll be gathering feedback about the initial concept and looking at some first drafts of first drafts. Basically, we're gabbing on the phone for a bit and I'm taking some notes.
The Three Simplest and Most Effective Anti-Spam Hacks I Have Ever Seen
The blocklists are just put it right there in that same block in main.cf. I typically use four of them.
Visualizing Human Rights with the Google Charts API
There are plenty of libraries for managing the requests to the API, and, in some simple cases you can even code it by hand, since all of the code is simply passed through a query tag on an image url.