June 24, 2010
Potty Mouth!

I had some time to kill on a lazy summer’s day and I noticed that splendid chap Max, had posed a question to the lazy web:

Is there a tool for measuring profanity in code-bases? If not, can someone write it and call it “pottymouth”? Ta.

So I did.

If you know ruby then maybe to can help it be a little better, fork the repo and see what you can do.

12:22pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/Zxt1byhatfQ
Filed under: code project pottymouth ruby 
May 5, 2010
I built Blinkers, a little greasemonkey script/Firefox extension that will prevent you from seeing your own Facebook news feed. Why? Because we all know it eats time and poops procrastination guilt. If you’re still having difficulty avoiding the internets while you work, consider using my DialUp application (or help me make it better!)

I built Blinkers, a little greasemonkey script/Firefox extension that will prevent you from seeing your own Facebook news feed. Why? Because we all know it eats time and poops procrastination guilt.

If you’re still having difficulty avoiding the internets while you work, consider using my DialUp application (or help me make it better!)

4:37pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/Zxt1byYCcRZ
Filed under: code firefox facebook procrastination 
April 12, 2010

I’ve released Thimblr — a tool to speed up your Tumblr theme development. Its a Ruby gem, so it’s very simple to install, with gem install Thimblr, once that’s done you just need to run thimblr, as a binary is installed for you with the gem.

This screencast should help you with the basics, though I’ve designed it to be totally self explanatory, but if you have any problems please open an issue on github and I’ll get right on it!

Please note, because I don’t have a windows box to test on at the moment it just plain won’t work at the moment. If anyone knows of a good place to store settings files etc. in windows then let me know and I’ll get it working.

2:47pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/Zxt1byUlKRe
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Filed under: thimblr code ruby 
April 11, 2010
I finally got round to completing project prime, it’s a collaborative artwork based on four of my poems, Chapters I, II, III and IV. Though these are, perhaps, uninspiring names they were chosen to allow readers (in particular the collaborative artists involved with this work) to form their own interpretations and impressions of the poetry. Over the course of several weeks 44 people submitted a little information about themselves and their impressions of each of the pieces. Each person is represented in the artwork below by a coloured shape. Each shape’s centre is placed on the canvas according to their age, with older people towards the right, and the first people to collaborate nearer the bottom. The colour of the shape shows their preference towards each poem the stronger the primary colour the more they liked that poem; red for Chapter II, green for Chapter III and blue for Chapter IV. Chapter I has is preference shown by transparency, the faster a shape pulses the more it was liked by the person it represents. If you’re interested in the code I used to generate the work, you can see it in a gist on github — I hope you enjoy it!

I finally got round to completing project prime, it’s a collaborative artwork based on four of my poems, Chapters I, II, III and IV.

Though these are, perhaps, uninspiring names they were chosen to allow readers (in particular the collaborative artists involved with this work) to form their own interpretations and impressions of the poetry. Over the course of several weeks 44 people submitted a little information about themselves and their impressions of each of the pieces.

Each person is represented in the artwork below by a coloured shape. Each shape’s centre is placed on the canvas according to their age, with older people towards the right, and the first people to collaborate nearer the bottom. The colour of the shape shows their preference towards each poem the stronger the primary colour the more they liked that poem; red for Chapter II, green for Chapter III and blue for Chapter IV. Chapter I has is preference shown by transparency, the faster a shape pulses the more it was liked by the person it represents.

If you’re interested in the code I used to generate the work, you can see it in a gist on github — I hope you enjoy it!

10:08pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/Zxt1byUeYt6
Filed under: Project Prime poetry code 
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