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 
July 29, 2009
Facebook API Niggle

I like Facebook (despite its recent frustrating changes that make walls confusing) but I have a niggle as a developer using their APIs.
If you choose to use Facebook’s XFBML to put a commenting system on your blog (like I do here) then anyone posting that page inside facebook has a separate comments list. Try posting this page on facebook, if you comment on that post in your feed the comments won’t appear on this page and things you write here won’t appear there.

Granted, sometimes this behaviour is preferable (popular sites might have thousands of comments on one page, and 99% will probably not be your friends or anyone you care about) but it would be good if when you initially ‘share’ a link on facebook, while the javascript is grabbing the pictures and headlines from the page, it would also look for XFBML and tie the commenting systems together if the site publisher had the relevant option toggled in their developer settings. You could even have non-friends’ posts hidden by default (or listed merely as ‘34 other posts’).

I realise its hardly a pressing problem, but I really love Facebook’s interconnectivity and I use off-site Facebook commenting in a couple of places, it’d be nice to see it happen!

12:49am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/Zxt1by90iNu
Filed under: facebook xfbml code 
June 13, 2009
http://facebook.com/jphastings

Wow, vanity plates for facebook. Huzzah!

10:16am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/Zxt1by7KXcu
Filed under: facebook 
May 25, 2009
Bad Rounded Profile Pics! Are you pissed off with the rounded profile pics that Facebook has decided to use? If so, just install this glimmer blocker filter and they’ll be gone the next time you force-refresh your pages - forever! The catches: You need a Mac. I might build a firefox greasemonkey script sometime soon tho. You need GlimmerBlocker. I’d highly recommend it, its essentially a proxy that removes all the irritating ads on websites for you automatically :) It’ll work with every application you use, and you can even make your own rules as to what gets blocked (like this…) How to install: All you need to do is go into the GlimmerBlocker Preference pane, go into filters, hit the little cog next to + and - under filters and subscribe to my filter using the following address: http://dropbox.kedakai.co.uk/GlimmerBlocker/Facebook.xml Let me know if there are any other annoyances I could add to this filter!

Bad Rounded Profile Pics!

Are you pissed off with the rounded profile pics that Facebook has decided to use? If so, just install this glimmer blocker filter and they’ll be gone the next time you force-refresh your pages - forever!

The catches:

  • You need a Mac. I might build a firefox greasemonkey script sometime soon tho.
  • You need GlimmerBlocker. I’d highly recommend it, its essentially a proxy that removes all the irritating ads on websites for you automatically :) It’ll work with every application you use, and you can even make your own rules as to what gets blocked (like this…)

How to install:

All you need to do is go into the GlimmerBlocker Preference pane, go into filters, hit the little cog next to + and - under filters and subscribe to my filter using the following address: http://dropbox.kedakai.co.uk/GlimmerBlocker/Facebook.xml

Let me know if there are any other annoyances I could add to this filter!

10:23pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/Zxt1by6klGG
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Filed under: mac glimmerblocker facebook filter 
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