Category: Tech
Make your sentences poorer, get out of the three comma club
There’s a running gag in the show Silicon Valley about a character obsessed with being in the “three comma” club. Being a billionaire, in other…
Link-o-Rama: Google testing new targeted ads, FreeBSD’s big oops, Henry Rollins’ record habits & Robyn Hitchcock’s essential records
Some interesting bits this time around. If you’re a Chrome user you need to read up on Google’s plans for replacing third-party cookies. FreeBSD users,…
Digital crate digging: Searching Spotify by label, genre, year and more
Spotify is a great tool for music discovery, but some of the exploration tools aren’t obvious. If you want to search for something by song…
Link-o-Rama: Hunspell dict format, curl is 23, response to flatkill.org
A few of the posts I found interesting this week. 17 (ever so slightly) weird facts about the most popular dictionary format: “the dictionary format…
Amyl and the Sniffers, Fraidycat web follower, Mogwai
Let’s shake some of my browser tabs and see what falls out. Fraidycat web follower / feed reader RSS has been on the decline since…
Using the Display Posts plugin with WordPress and custom CSS
In case this helps anybody else, wanted to share how I created the Top 100 Albums page here on Dissociated Press. I wanted to be…
Using the Wayback Machine Downloader to rebuild Dissociated Press
This domain has been online since January 2001. A homepage or, more often, some type of blog has been here almost as long. I’ve been,…
Thoughts on Doom: Eternal
Doom: Eternal is a pretty good name for a franchise that keeps getting ported, updated, and rebooted more than 25 years after it first launched….
My favorite 100 albums of all time: #38 (“Animals”)
Pink Floyd responded in part to the punk rock movement’s fast, short, and aggressive tunes by… putting out an LP with five complex and relatively…
More open source is good open source
A few days ago, Microsoft announced that it has released PowerShell under the MIT license for Linux (and Mac OS X). Perhaps surprisingly, this has…