December, 2011

  1. Twitter Tools 3.0 beta 1

    I’ve been working for a while on a version of Twitter Tools that extends Social. Version 3.0 is a ground-up rewrite, with a few features included for backward compatibility. If you’d like to test the beta, grab it from GitHub. Note that this is lightly tested and there is absolutely no information in the README…

  2. WordPress 3.3 – Time to Upgrade

    My upgrade to WordPress 3.3 was a simple svn switch command – everything just worked. The level of polish in the admin has really been stepped up in the last few releases. Hats off to all the folks doing great work there. I’m probably most pleased that my media size patch was accepted; I think…

  3. Reviewing my SPAM folder – gotta hand it to the bastards. The crap they are sending is likely to get some poor folks to click.

  4. Just got three “why?”s in a row from my 2.5 year old daughter. This gets worse before it gets better, doesn’t it?

  5. I’ve used my iPad and Kindle a bunch during the same time period, but my Kindle Fire has sat for a week on my desk collecting dust.

  6. Dinner: a couple of white chocolate chip, cranberry cookies followed by some asparagus quiche. Don’t judge. It’s been a crazy week.

  7. Don’t Be A Free User →

    Someone builds a cool, free product, it gets popular, and that popularity attracts a buyer. The new owner shuts the product down and the founders issue a glowing press release about how excited they are about synergies going forward. They are never heard from again.

    Whether or not this is done in good faith, in practice this kind of ‘exit event’ is a pump-and-dump scheme. The very popularity that attracts a buyer also makes the project financially unsustainable. The owners cash out, the acquirer gets some good engineers, and the users get screwed.

    This is such a great post. (thanks Scott)

  8. INSTAGRAM | Twitter connection & share issues →

    Some users utilizing the iPhone 4S and/or iOS 5 have reported issues connecting their Instagram accounts to Twitter. Please follow these troubleshooting steps in order to fix the issue:

    1. Exit Instagram and open the Settings application.
    2. Locate the Twitter setting.
    3. If there are any accounts listed tap to select them and then tap Delete Account from the bottom of each account’s page.
    4. Open Instagram and navigate to Profile > Edit Share Settings > Twitter to connect Twitter again in Instagram.

    Why us Instagram the only app on my iPhone with this “problem”?