Previously, this site was running a very quick and roughly modified child theme of the twentyten theme.
Lately, I’ve been having harebrained ideas about new stuff late at night, and have condensed that all into a new child theme that I’m working on. It’s based off the Thematic framework made by Ian Stewart.
It’s very much a work in progress, and I will be updating it as much as I can, so bear with me.
This is possibly one of the coolest ways to gather data I’ve ever seen. The automated phone call was so cool! Hats off, Panic!
Howdy! The video of my talk from WordCamp: Developers was finally posted on WordPress.tv! I haven’t watched it yet (and probably never will), but if you want to see me talk about how we use WordPress here at Cheezburger, or learn more about CheezCAP, this has all the juicy details. Also, my slides have lolcats in them. This was my second public speaking performance. In watching the video, I’m remembering how low the microphone was. I probably could have gotten away with not speaking directly into it, but oh well. Makes me look like a huge freak.
Thank you Steve.
DISCLAIMER: Don’t click on or visit any of the links in this post. They’re probably malicious.
Starting last night at about 11pm, my phone started blowing up with push notifications from my Twitter client. Hundreds and hundreds more Twitter @-mentions followed, and I had to turn off notifications. Some of these tweets came from real-ish looking people, and some came from what are clearly bots. At first I just thought this was a random occurence. Such is the danger of having a real english word as a Twitter handle (I get all sorts of mis-tweets). I poked at the links these tweets contained, and at first glance didn’t think any of them pointed to anything real.
However, on further examination, many of the tweets mentioned Perez Hilton. I did a quick google search and found an article on his site with my Twitter handle in the title. That’s where all this madness is coming from. Have we really reached the point where we will put an @ @in @front @of @everything? Also, I wish there was some way I could ban this stuff from my feed. EDIT: A coworker reminded me of this great post by a former coworker with a similar situation. You should follow her (@skinny) on Twitter.
Saw a tweet this morning that lead me to an awesome looking new web service, called if this then that. From playing around with it for a few minutes, it looks like the Mac app Automator but for web apps. I love this crazy mashup kind of stuff, and the deal is made sweeter by their directory of user created tasks.
Even the example task, importing all your Instagram photos to Dropbox is incredibly useful! Cool to see a bunch of WordPress actions right at the top. Do you use ifttt? Let me know uf you come up with any cool workflows!
Filing this under: I’d love to use this somehow, somewhere, someday. Looks really cool, and I hate making loading gifs.
Some of my recent work for Cheezburger has involved working with batcache, specifically leveraging it to use for A/B testing.
I made these over the weekend and figured I’d drop the recipe for my records and for anyone wanting to attempt it themselves. I will say that I usually don’t use measured quantities of things, especially when I’m testing stuff out. I use an enameled cast-iron dutch oven (with a lid) for this recipe, but you could also use a roasting pan.
