Joel's Pointers

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Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:55:26 +0200

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Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:55:04 +0200

Chrome has a new detached “add tab” button in the...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:44:18 +0200

Chrome has a new detached “add tab” button in the latest Dev release. Looks pretty slick! (this is with a theme activated, slightly different without)

Facebook privacy woes...

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:14:00 +0200

So there’s this thing going around Facebook telling people to unsubscribe from your Facebook feed because you don’t want your friends to see everything you comment on.

Firstly, the post is already outdated, I don’t have an option that’s mentioned in the post that says “Comments and Likes”, it now lists “All Updates”, “Most updates” or “Only important”.

Secondly, the point is you’re sharing this information whether or not I subscribe to it. Isn’t it a little backwards to ask people not to see what you’re sharing anyway? It’s like asking people to close their ears while you read your PIN out loud. Reading you PIN out loud is a bad idea, asking people not to listen a worse idea.

The solution is to post things to “Friends only”. Just checked this, and am 99% sure that if you make it “friends only”, only your friends that see that post can see that you commented on something. If you then comment on something I can’t see cause I’m not a friend of the same person, I won’t see it in the ticker. You only see comments on the ticker you have a right to see…

To make that practical: Joe posts a status and Bob comments on it. Jill is a friend of Bob but not Joe. If Joe’s status is set to “Friends only”, Jill won’t see Bob’s comment in the ticker. If Joe’s status is set to “Friends of Friends”, Jill can see it, cause she can also see the original comment. Facebook is nice enough to have a little icon by each status showing the status, a world for “everyone”, two people for “Friends of Friends”, and a wheel for “Custom”, a specific subset of friends, or all your friends.

UPDATE: Regarding the first part: apparently I’ve got a new version, talking with others has confirmed they see a different UI for the right hand dropdown box.

How to install fabric (python) under Windows

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:58:30 +0200

Fabric is a cool little package to script (remote) commands and can be very useful for things like deploys to a variety of servers. I’m using it to deploy my Django app.

I run windows (64bit) however, and it took me a while to find the right links to all of the right binaries and packages. This “recipe” however has the following assumptions:

You have python installed (2.7 in my case)
You have pip installed

If you try “pip install fabric”, you’ll likely get an error about a crypto library missing. Install Pycrypto and Paramiko from here:

http://blog.victorjabur.com/2011/06/08/modules-python-library-compiled-for-windows-32-and-64-unofficial-windows-binaries-for-python/

Note you’ll have to run the installer as administrator (right click, “Run as Administrator”), because the installer will crash if you don’t.

The third required package is the win32api. That package is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build216/ Be sure to pick the right python version and architecture (pywin32-216.win-amd64-py2.7.exe in my case).

Now you can run “pip install fabric” and have a happy fabric install. Happy deploys!

What is the world coming to? “It isn’t official till...

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:11:36 +0200

What is the world coming to?

“It isn’t official till it’s on facebook” has a completely new meaning this way.

TIL the Batman logo is all just a formula… Math is taking...

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:09:04 +0200

TIL the Batman logo is all just a formula… Math is taking over the world!

(TIL = Today I Learned)

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Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:21:30 +0200

After I graduate...

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:53:00 +0200

Working on my final few assignments, my final internship report and the accompanying presentation and need to remind my self life just starts after school is all over.

In the year following graduation, I want to:

Write more! (blogs, life stories, etc: I’m getting rusty)
Read more, atleast 10 books, work related and not
Create two websites just for fun
Learn a new programming language
Attend atleast one tech event/conference/drinks session
Not buy another personal computer (want to beat the last computer which lasted me 2.5 years)
Hack or program some hardware (have a development kit laying around)

That’s all for now: just finished reflecting on the last six months and want to make the next year even geekier!

Guacamole? Yeah right with just 0.7% avacado powder

Tue, 31 May 2011 20:31:00 +0200

Guacamole? Yeah right with just 0.7% avacado powder

Oh yes, the rapture. Reminds me of the “Left Behind”...

Sat, 21 May 2011 23:27:59 +0200

Oh yes, the rapture. Reminds me of the “Left Behind” series of books in which these kinds of scenarios are vividly described.

Delta and Northwest merged. This was their planning board…

Fri, 20 May 2011 22:06:24 +0200

Delta and Northwest merged. This was their planning board…

Guy tries to take his pony on the train (Wales, Dutch article)

Fri, 20 May 2011 19:36:35 +0200

Guy tries to take his pony on the train (Wales, Dutch article)

Cup Handbags

Thu, 19 May 2011 11:25:01 +0200

Cup Handbags

Survived the Ikea once again! Very quiet, but got away with two...

Sat, 14 May 2011 15:08:14 +0200

Survived the Ikea once again! Very quiet, but got away with two new duvet covers (a flowery one for Tirza, and the one pictured above), IKEA Family Shampoo, IKEA Family Handsoap, a LED light strip for behind my computers, a laptop stand and IKEA coffee pads. Oh, and Tirza got a cheese slicer and some body lotion :)

This is my show…For those who don’t speak dutch:...

Fri, 13 May 2011 12:22:38 +0200

This is my show…
For those who don’t speak dutch: they investigate biological tomatoes from an TV ad, where farmers don’t need to do anything because nature does its work, and it turns out to be false.

Twitter is finally truely social

Sat, 07 May 2011 16:00:05 +0200

Twitter is finally truely social

If only Facebook really had this logo…

Sat, 07 May 2011 12:19:54 +0200

If only Facebook really had this logo…

A paper Audi A7… And I thought the Neuschwanstein castle...

Sat, 07 May 2011 12:16:20 +0200

A paper Audi A7… And I thought the Neuschwanstein castle was hard enough.

56 worst analogies by HS students

Tue, 03 May 2011 15:56:09 +0200

56 worst analogies by HS students