Why I Dumped Tweetdeck For Brizzly

I upgraded to Tweetdeck 0.3.0 and I was almost immediately looking for an alternative. There are a few reasons for that (the disappearing columns bug, watching it auto-shorten an already short url) but the biggest issue was the change they made to the behavior of the close button. What did they do? Well, with almost […]

An Update on My URL Shortener

The difference in speed between my day job and the after hours hacking I do is sometimes mind-boggling. My day job is a typical “day job”. Anything of note takes time to happen. I’m cool with that. I’m also cool with what happens at home. Where I can get an idea, hit Google for some […]

Setting Up My Own URL Shortening Service

As I recently mentioned (on Twitter, does that really count?), I’m not a fan of URL shortening services. I don’t like the idea of trusting the value of links pointing to my sites to a third party. Especially since the URL shortening space itself is so sketchy. With that in mind, it was with interest […]

While Twitter is Down…

I thought I’d (gently) toss some links at you: I read an Introduction to sessionStorage a couple of weeks ago. I approve. As it stands, I’m always storing bits of data in globally accessible places (either in the DOM or in a namespaced Data object,) and I always have to document what I’m doing so […]