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https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/twitter-links-in-tumblr · 20 May 2009
When writing a post the other day[^1], I wanted to be able to use the tumblr chat where the participants were twitter users. Tumblr doesn’t support HTML in chat usernames, so I wrote a tiny javascript chunk to automatically troll any elements you give it...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/short-lived · 17 May 2009
Browsing through my github projects I’ve noticed I appear to have an idea, work on it for at most a week and then consign it to the ‘uninteresting’ pile… some projects get completed, some don’t. Wish I had more time to complete them, as well as s...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/ruby-dlc-on-github · 5 May 2009
github.com Ruby-DLC is now available on github, and consequently as a gem! You can install with[^1]: There’s a gist explaining how to use the library and the rdoc documentation is still available on my project page. Please file an issue if you have any...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/porting-to-ruby · 5 May 2009
I had some time to kill today, so I rewrote the DLC api in Ruby. If you use JDownloader you’ll know how useful the DLCs are, essentially they allow you to contain all the links from a variety of online hosting sources in one place with any passwords tha...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/campus-bot · 29 Apr 2009
I’m building a twitterbot to answer questions about things happening on my university campus. Should be fun, I’ve decided to use Ruby and Active Record as a foundation :) Might be a few days before anything appears on github, I’ve got a few exams in...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/where-on-the-web-screencast · 21 Apr 2009
{{< vimeo 4252126 >}} Oooooh, a screencast? About my latest app? How exciting!
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/where-on-the-web · 21 Apr 2009
{{< figure src="where-on-the-web.jpg" alt="A terrain map of the earth over the Atlantic, showing red dots moving between the UK and other places on earth" >}} Where On The Web is aliiiiive! I built it, and it appears to work averagely well. You can see t...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/processing-and-ruby · 20 Apr 2009
I got stuck into processing this weekend - I’ve been meaning to try it out for some time, but I also found a fantastic little project called ruby-processing. Yes, its exactly what it sounds like geeks, its the visual control of the processing language, i...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/native-ruby-rar-archive-extractor · 29 Mar 2009
github.com I’ve started coding a native Ruby library for extracting RAR archives. Its in early stages, but I’ve placed down the code for parsing the file structure, so it can extract unencrypted, ‘store’ level archives. The ultimate aim is to all...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/trash-files-in-ruby · 25 Mar 2009
A Ruby gem I wrote that sends files to Operating System specific Trash/Recycle bins.