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Dashboard and Sidebar Widgets on GitHub 3 Apr 2013 | 09:04 am
I love GitHub, but for some reason I've been hesitant to put some of my older, smaller projects on there. In hopes of reversing that trend, I've moved all my surviving Sidebar and Dashboard widgets on...
I own Maruku now 22 Jan 2013 | 01:00 pm
So it turns out that I own Maruku now. Let's start at the beginning. Maruku is a Markdown interpreter written in Ruby. It's one of many Markdown interpreters available to Ruby programmers, but it's n...
Middleman 3.0 10 Jul 2012 | 11:54 pm
For the last 8 months or so, I've been contributing to Thomas Reynolds' open source project Middleman. Middleman is a Ruby framework for building static websites using all the nice tools (Haml, Sass, ...
Securely and conveniently managing passwords 26 Jun 2012 | 10:45 am
Good password security habits are more important than ever, but it can be hard to take the common advice about using complex, unique passwords when they're so inconvenient to manage. This article expl...
PNGGauntlet 3.1.2 - Bugfixes and forced PNG conversion 18 Jun 2012 | 03:23 am
PNGGauntlet 3.1.2 is a minor update that resolves some bugs, and adds a much-requested option. First, the bugfixes - PNGGauntlet will now correctly add directories that have a '.' in their name. Previ...
Update on XBList 4 4 Mar 2012 | 02:00 pm
In August, 2011, a major change to how Xbox.com works broke XBList. This sort of occurrence isn't uncommon since XBList simply screenscrapes Xbox.com, leaving it vulnerable to even minor changes i...
Update on XBList 4 4 Mar 2012 | 01:00 pm
In August, 2011, a major change to how Xbox.com works broke XBList. This sort of occurrence isn't uncommon since XBList simply screenscrapes Xbox.com, leaving it vulnerable to even minor changes in ho...
PNGGauntlet 3.1.1 fixes bugs and improves canceling 22 Jan 2012 | 02:00 pm
I was hoping PNGGauntlet 3.1.0 would be the last release I'd need to do for a while, but it looks like there were still a few bugs that needed to be fixed. 3.1.1 is out and fixes all the bugs that...
PNGGauntlet 3.1: Bugfixes and parallel file compression 15 Jan 2012 | 02:00 pm
It's been less than a week since PNGGauntlet 3 was released, and now PNGGauntlet 3.1 is out! It turns out that when I found PNGGauntlet 3, forgotten and incomplete, I hadn't realized exactly h...
PNGGauntlet 3: Three compressors make the smallest PNGs 10 Jan 2012 | 02:00 pm
This weekend I released a major update to PNGGauntlet, my PNG compression utility for Windows. A lot has changed, including a lot of bug fixes, but the biggest news is that PNGGauntlet now produces ev...
