Posts Tagged ‘blog’

28
Nov
22:42

The Best of: ME

Web2.0 baby.

I figured I have a lot of material I don’t really use in the form of tweets. 1,832 of them.

When I started writing this blog post I wanted to gather a bunch of tweets and just call it The Best of Dushkin or something. Then I started looking at what those tweets actually contained.

Common themes include:

  1. Being generally PO’d with the state of public transport/commuting:

    The automatic announcer that’s supposed to make up for the shortcomings of the Israeli train schedules didn’t go off and I missed a train.

  1. Boring work related things that nobody who isn’t in my particular position would ever in their right mind understand or want to understand:

    The guy who did the friday shift didn’t trace right.

  2. Playing (boring) games:

    I played some plants vs zombies. It was cool actually.

I began to wonder if that’s the future of my communication with the outside world will be conducted in 140 characters or less and be about terribly simple things like playing Plants vs. Zombies (update: it’s a good game).

So perhaps it won’t replace it completely, but I wonder just how many of these tweets could have been expanded upon and become fully fledged blog posts. Not that a blog post is much of a step up from a tweet, let’s face it.

So I promise I’ll write more meaningful things, more often.

12
Nov
00:27

See you later, hostgator

I’m currently in the process of getting used to a new host.

You might remember a similar post much like this from some time ago, except longer. Its fate remains uncertain and I’m somewhat infuriated.

Still adjusting…

09
Jul
11:38

More progress on “gum”

Date display

Date display

Edit: It’s here!

I thought I’d share “gum”s progress with the world.

Here we’re seeing the date display which I’ve worked on. It only shows the date of the post for the first post of that day. For any post following that, only the time of day is displayed. The year is only displayed if it’s not this year.

It’s quite similar to what dushkin.org had in the older design, except redone. And this time, done right instead of being thrown in at the last second.

Gum's nested comments

Gum's nested comments

As well as avatars, “gum” will also introduce nested replies. I have to say, it was actually a lot easier than I thought initially. Now you can reply to others’ comments and at the same time not appear as some idiotic smiley I put together at the last moment.

WordPress has so many features the old theme just couldn’t use.