Comments on: Lack of updates, link aggregation http://kavassalis.com/2010/05/lack-of-updates-link-aggregation/ code, carriers, cars, cooking, cameras Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Justin http://kavassalis.com/2010/05/lack-of-updates-link-aggregation/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Justin Thu, 06 May 2010 18:53:06 +0000 http://kavassalis.com/?p=81#comment-70 Yeah, I just can't get over Twitter's 140 char limit or the expressiveness of HTML I've grown so accustomed to. In my case, I have a special category set up in WordPress for my "neatlinks" and I've hacked WP core a bit to generate a title from the content. Which allows me, when necessary, to link to TWO! things, e.g. http://justinsomnia.org/2010/05/worth-reading-interview-with-shawn-brauch-of-pen/ I suppose I could pump all my neatlinks into Twitter with a link back to my blog, but that just seems not what Twitter was intended for. Yeah, I just can’t get over Twitter’s 140 char limit or the expressiveness of HTML I’ve grown so accustomed to. In my case, I have a special category set up in WordPress for my “neatlinks” and I’ve hacked WP core a bit to generate a title from the content. Which allows me, when necessary, to link to TWO! things, e.g.

http://justinsomnia.org/2010/05/worth-reading-interview-with-shawn-brauch-of-pen/

I suppose I could pump all my neatlinks into Twitter with a link back to my blog, but that just seems not what Twitter was intended for.

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]]> By: Nick http://kavassalis.com/2010/05/lack-of-updates-link-aggregation/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Nick Thu, 06 May 2010 15:34:03 +0000 http://kavassalis.com/?p=81#comment-66 Actually here was a good example: @nkavassalis Apparently you can simply chop your standard GSM SIM with a butchers knife and use it in your iPad/iPhone 4G prototype > http://k4v.ca/l?NTS I literally had 0 characters to spare, thankfully I didn't have to reword my blurb or make it sound like SMS speak as I often need to by removing adverbs and such... Eventually the comp-sci student in me will rework the hash/cookie creating algorithm to not brute force until it finds one taken. I realize there will likely never be collisions and even when there are, very few, but it's just so ugly... Actually here was a good example:
@nkavassalis Apparently you can simply chop your standard GSM SIM with a butchers knife and use it in your iPad/iPhone 4G prototype > http://k4v.ca/l?NTS

I literally had 0 characters to spare, thankfully I didn’t have to reword my blurb or make it sound like SMS speak as I often need to by removing adverbs and such…

Eventually the comp-sci student in me will rework the hash/cookie creating algorithm to not brute force until it finds one taken. I realize there will likely never be collisions and even when there are, very few, but it’s just so ugly…

]]> By: Nick http://kavassalis.com/2010/05/lack-of-updates-link-aggregation/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Nick Thu, 06 May 2010 15:25:00 +0000 http://kavassalis.com/?p=81#comment-65 Ahhh thanks! I had totally not thought of using the proper tags first. The URL shortener is for twitter'ification, it only saves like 8 characters but I figured it was worth implementing + the $10/year for the domain. Many times the cursed 140 characters leaves me a few short of being able to express my angry-rant-de-jeur... I could have used an existing URL shortener but this was easier (IMO) + theres always the fear your shortener of choice will one day up and vanish. Ahhh thanks! I had totally not thought of using the proper tags first.

The URL shortener is for twitter’ification, it only saves like 8 characters but I figured it was worth implementing + the $10/year for the domain. Many times the cursed 140 characters leaves me a few short of being able to express my angry-rant-de-jeur… I could have used an existing URL shortener but this was easier (IMO) + theres always the fear your shortener of choice will one day up and vanish.

]]> By: Justin http://kavassalis.com/2010/05/lack-of-updates-link-aggregation/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Justin Thu, 06 May 2010 02:22:52 +0000 http://kavassalis.com/?p=81#comment-62 First off, for embedding white-space preserving code blocks in WP, wrap them like so (this is assuming you're using the html editor, and not the visual editor): <code><pre><code>code blah blah here</code></pre></code> And you also have to html encode the less-than signs if you're planning on displaying HTML source. PHP's htmlspecialchars() is handy here. Can I ask one thing? Why do you need a URL shortener? Why can't you just store the link of what you're linking to? First off, for embedding white-space preserving code blocks in WP, wrap them like so (this is assuming you’re using the html editor, and not the visual editor):

<pre><code>code blah blah here</code></pre>

And you also have to html encode the less-than signs if you’re planning on displaying HTML source. PHP’s htmlspecialchars() is handy here.

Can I ask one thing? Why do you need a URL shortener? Why can’t you just store the link of what you’re linking to?

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