What happened to feed auto-discovery in Firefox 4?
TL;DR: The feed button is not dead; it's just been sent to sing backup in Firefox 4 because it's not pulling its weight. This post talks about why things have changed.There's a brouhaha about Bug...
View ArticleHow to use feed auto-discovery in Firefox 4
TL;DR: The feed button is not dead; it's just been sent to sing backup in Firefox 4 because it's not pulling its weight up front. This post discusses how you can still use feed auto-discovery, even...
View ArticleWhat should be done about feeds in browsers?
TL;DR: Browsers need help doing a better job using feeds for discovery, aggregation, and publishing on the web to keep us from swimming into self-destructing lobster traps.Last week, I wrote some blog...
View ArticleIntroducing Fireriver, a River of News for Firefox 4
TL;DR: I have a history of building news aggregators. Now, I've built one as an addon for Firefox 4.This is Fireriver, an experimental add-on for Firefox 4. You can find the source code on...
View ArticlePay phones and Firefox features
TL;DR: Pay phones have been disappearing, and so might some Firefox features. But, that's not necessarily a bad thing: Some features steal attention from others that are more important. Some could be...
View ArticleFurther Jekyll notes
TL;DR: This is an in-progress entry, where I plan to collect some notes on how I've set up and am using Jekyll. I may call it "done" at some random point and publish it. I may even subsequently update...
View ArticleMoved to Jekyll and Disqus
TL;DR: My blog is now produced by Jekyll, with comments hosted by Disqus.This blog has transitioned between a handful of publishing platforms - including Movable Type, blosxom, and Wordpress. Well,...
View ArticleCutting the Cord (or: Bright House, you're fired)
TL;DR: Our cable company has offered poor support for our TiVo; cut our channels and allowed our service to degrade; mislead us about possible solutions; and finally wasted our time by sending a...
View ArticleFive years
I proposed to her in front of the Max & Ermas where we'd had our first date. A year or so later, we got married. That was five years ago, this past Thursday.Over these past five years, my love has...
View ArticleBadger 2: Return of the Mustelidae
TL;DR: A year ago, I said I wanted to build a badging service for the Mozilla community, so we could all celebrate how awesome we all are. Well, I putzed around and didn't get far, so I'm starting over...
View ArticlePutting clouds in boxes for webdevs at Mozilla
TL;DR: At Mozilla, we're redoubling efforts to attract contributors. And, in the Webdev team, we're using virtual machines to make it even easier to get started hacking. It makes no sense to demand...
View ArticleThe Readerpocalypse, or Occupy Google Reader
TL;DR: Google gave Reader a face-lift and removed built-in following & sharing. In exchange, they added +1 buttons and ways to share to Google+. But, the changes seem to have removed most of the...
View ArticleSocial Media Cyborg
TL;DR: Since Google Reader lost it's sharing, I've decided to revisit my "social media strategy". I'm plugging lots of things into other things. I feel like maybe I should write about this...
View ArticlePlease Do Learn To Code
TL;DR: I think coding is an essential skill for modern humans surrounded by code and machines that run it. Please learn to code.I disagree with Jeff Atwood on "Please don't learn to code":The "everyone...
View Article303 See Other
TL;DR: I'm switching to a new blog and a new domain, because 0xDECAFBAD is not my name and WordPress is stupidly simple.This is probably the last post you'll see from me on this blog. End of an era,...
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