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Daring Fireball: How to Block the DiggBar

Bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, April 10, 2009 @ 08:36 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

I love this post from John Gruber on how to block the DiggBar, and in effect, Digg itself. I’m also highly amused by the message he displays to users that try to access his site via the DiggBar.

There is already some Django middleware available for this that can be easily adapted to forward users to any custom view or external site you wish. I’ll definitely be setting this up on my site soon.

UPDATE: I decided to use frame-busting JavaScript instead since that takes care of Facebook and other sites that do framing as well. Like anything else it can be countered, but it’s a start.

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GHOULS OF PROVIDENCE - Patton Oswalt

Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, March 26, 2009 @ 09:49 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is perhaps one of the best tributes to H.P. Lovecraft I have read in recent memory. Patton Oswalt tells a story of a walk through Providence, Rhode Island, and over the course of it manages to capture the feel of Lovecraft’s work without it feeling artificial or derivative. It is a striking piece and I find myself eerily affected by it.

I’ve been reading though a massive collection of Lovecraft’s short stories, doing research for one of my projects, and Oswalt’s post fits neatly into the bits of Lovecraftian lore that have been surging and sliding about inside of my head. Go read this post. Now.

Thanks go to Quentin for drawing my attention to this via his shared items feed on the GOOG.

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The Nerd Handbook: Rands in Repose

Bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, February 9, 2009 @ 16:29 CST by Daniel Andrlik

This is an excellent essay written for the poor benighted souls who have taken on having a relationship with a nerd. Honestly, I prefer the term “geek”, but in this essay the words are interchangeable. At least in my case, the observations made here may be a little exaggerated, but the general trends described are accurate. I like to think I’m a better listener and more empathetic than what is described here, but you would have to ask those who know me personally to get an objective opinion.

Still, this is a wonderful piece and worth reading for both nerds, and the brave souls who choose to spend time with them.

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Processing your offline gmail in Python - Command Line Warriors

Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 @ 21:48 CST by Daniel Andrlik

Oh, there are hours of geeky fun to be had with this. This is so going on my list of things to tinker with when I finish my current coding project.

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Stupid Coding Tricks: T-SQL Mandelbrot

Bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 12:39 CST by Daniel Andrlik

Someone clearly has more free time than I do, but I’m very amused by this trick.

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Introducing Stackoverflow.com

Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 11:41 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is Jeff Atwood’s post announcing the new venture that he is starting up with Joel Spolsky. There’s nothing at the actual site yet besides a podcast of a conference call. He sums up the direction of this new site as:

“Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit. It is by programmers, for programmers, with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of good programming knowledge in the world. No matter what programming language you use, or what operating system you call home. Better programming is our goal.”

I’ll be excited to see where this goes.

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Mibbit

Bookmarked via Diigo on Sunday, April 13, 2008 @ 22:14 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is awesome. Mibbit is a web-based IRC client, with one of the better interfaces for chat I’ve seen.

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Command Line Warriors : Encrypt Your Home Directory

Bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, December 8, 2007 @ 20:25 CST by Daniel Andrlik

This is a really great guide for setting up your /home directory as an encrypted partition in Linux. Since I’m always a bit data paranoid, and am a sucker for any kind of software tinkering, I think I’ll give this a try on my laptop when I get it back from being repaired.

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Map of Zork

Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 @ 10:25 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

A scan of a hand-drawn map of the original Zork game. Very cool.

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