TOBY MCKES

Code is Poetry

Toby — Sat, 19 May 2012 16:51:55 +0000

Check out the new Code Poet, a site made for people who make things with WordPress. They have a great collection of resources, I highly suggest you check it out. Congratulations to the @WPCodePoet team, the site looks great! I’m really excited to see what kind of content starts coming out of this site. Also, their theme is HOT. Make sure to take the Quiz!

The First Year

Toby — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:10:34 +0000

Today, my lovely wife and I are celebrating our first wedding anniversary. We’ve been together for almost 10 years, but this last year has been one of the best in memory. Happy Anniversary, Shannon! Here’s to the years to come!

_s

Toby — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:11:11 +0000

So I’m ditching the child theme I was working on for now. Recently, the Automattic Theme Team released an awesome little theme called _s. Gonna start there and see what happens. I need a side project to take the edge off of the craziness going on at work. More on that later.

In Development

Toby — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:04:55 +0000

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.

Beta Tester Testers

Toby — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:37:21 +0000

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 2:17 pm via CoTweet ReplyRetweetFavorite

@panic

Panic Inc

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!

WordCamp Developers Video

Toby — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:22:04 +0000

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.

Fail Whale.

Toby — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:09:53 +0000

The best and worst part about today:

How to Live before You Die: RIP Steve Jobs

Toby — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:21:02 +0000

Thank you Steve.

Twitter Literacy

Toby — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:12:12 +0000

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.

#Twitter #news: Twitter Wants The @Trademark For The Term ‘Tweet’ http://t.co/74iWTm9K

September 30, 2011 1:37 pm via twitterfeed ReplyRetweetFavorite

@SocialNetworkUs

Dan

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.

If This, Then That

Toby — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:27:12 +0000

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!