Author Archives: Toby

In Development

By Toby | Published: November 3, 2011

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 [...]

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Beta Tester Testers

By Toby | Published: October 26, 2011

#bbpBox_129305793689436160 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0084B4; }#bbpBox_129305793689436160 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; } The Panic State of the Union ’11, with a link to the Coda 2 private beta signup page. Thanks for your interest! http://t.co/KUE2jyIN  —C October 26, 2011 1:17 pm via CoTweetReplyRetweetFavorite @panic Panic Inc This is possibly one of the coolest ways to gather data I’ve [...]

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WordCamp Developers Video

By Toby | Published: October 17, 2011

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 [...]

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Fail Whale.

By Toby | Published: October 13, 2011

The best and worst part about today:

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How to Live before You Die: RIP Steve Jobs

By Toby | Published: October 5, 2011

Thank you Steve.

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Twitter Literacy

By Toby | Published: September 30, 2011
So many mentions!

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 [...]

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If This, Then That

By Toby | Published: September 8, 2011
If This Then That

If This Then That, an awesome mashup tool for web services.

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Spin.js

By Toby | Published: August 19, 2011
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Filing this under: I’d love to use this somehow, somewhere, someday. Looks really cool, and I hate making loading gifs. #bbpBox_103438500942184448 a { text-decoration:none; color:#1e606c; }#bbpBox_103438500942184448 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; } Just released spin.js, a cross-browser animated loading spinner. http://t.co/zzV8K29 August 16, 2011 4:10 am via Twitter for MacReplyRetweetFavorite @fgnass Felix Gnass 

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Fun with Batcache and WordPress.com

By Toby | Published: August 18, 2011
Y U NO BATCACHE?

Some of my recent work for Cheezburger has involved working with batcache, specifically leveraging it to use for A/B testing.

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Pork Carnitas

By Toby | Published: June 6, 2011
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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 [...]

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