I discussed some of the risks of an un-anchored sabbatical tonight with J–. he strongly recommends working at least partially within the confines of academia to reap the network benefits (enthusiasm, rich resources) of an academic system. He’s probably right. i’m going to try and schedule something with MR and/or PH tomorrow, even though i [...]

so far, i’ve modded Instiki to have new stylesheets for a cleaner look, and a set of blackberry and mobile device optimizations, including:

adding javascript show/hide for the wiki editing help and hiding it by default
shortening the help text and moving it below the page body when editing so you don’t have to scroll past it
reducing [...]

posting immediately from anywhere, publish it now, share / edit it later
works right from your browser - no apps to download or install
click the clickwheel, press “Send Page Address”, type “add@feedmelinks.com”
(tip: save it to your addressbook so you can just type ‘add’ next time)
the page name and page URL will be filled in for you. [...]

just saw the aftermath of M-’s counter getting reset, in slow-motion living color. f-ck. i can see it. and when you’ve built something like that, with such pride and dedication around not slipping, to slip now must hurt terribly. it’s almost as if you would feel that more days = more strength, and it probably [...]

…is now available on the Tools to Make Tools
Wiki. stay tuned for patch uploads soon.

Before i knew about things like attention streams and Trac, there was CIA.
CIA is a great concept that happened almost before its time — a website for developers to stream status information into from their open source projects. CIA was like the giant train station schedule sign clicking away as a million trains, or coders, [...]

the Blackberry will include the URL for you and automatically figure out your Feed Me Links user ID based on your email address.

[editor's note: please excuse the broken links for some of these projects -- in the server migration, some of the older files are no longer live. email me for code samples or examples]
Past independent projects include:
dd {padding-bottom: 2.0em;} .language {display: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px;}

Command Runner
web-based interactive command executor
Interwoven / Perl

Feed Me [...]

is not quite as easy as it could be. (or, maybe i just did it the hard way — i do that sometimes.)
follow these steps for a clean, if not necessarily painless, migration: