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Re: Riot • Blog • Riot Hack Nights

Elliott Kember — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:16:27 -0000

Sounds like you need new friends!

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Elliott Kember — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:18:05 -0000

I was outside and got a bunch of photos of the cars being seized. http://up.riothq.com/DUQz - anyone know where I should send them?

Re: SubdomainFu: A New Way To Tame The Subdomain - Intridea Company Blog

Elliott Kember — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:54:43 -0000

Use Request Routing for subdomain-aware routing :)
http://agilewebdevelopment....

Re: The Kember Identity : Elliott Kember dot Com

Elliott Kember — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:46:46 -0000

The guy spelt my name wrong, too. He gets zero points.

Re: The Kember Identity : Elliott Kember dot Com

Elliott Kember — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:37:09 -0000

It's a set of MD5 hashes which step through in a loop like so:

md5(a) = b
md5(b) = c
md5(c) = a

and so on. Nobody's found one yet, and there isn't any code which checks - but it's a good reason to print out your current hash every so often.

Re: http://elliottkember.com/spunday

Elliott Kember — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:00:57 -0000

Good stuff!

Re: Elliott's amazing Twitter keyword search thing

Elliott Kember — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:44:24 -0000

I should probably stop you being able to click it multiple times - I think it's breaking my server!

Re: http://elliottkember.com/madness

Elliott Kember — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:25:36 -0000

I haven't really tried IE8 in any real capacity yet - I'm on a mac. Greying out the location bar is a good idea - Location2 does it like this - and I think it could be a good stepping stone to removing them from browsers altogether.

Showing protocols other than http:// is a good idea, but perhaps they need to be shown as an icon. For example, "https" doesn't really inspire confidence in somebody who doesn't know that it means "secure". The padlock icon, and green security thing in Firefox do a better job than just "https://".

Re: The Kember Identity : Elliott Kember dot Com

Elliott Kember — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:23:02 -0000

Cool idea - unfortunately nobody has found one yet!

Re: Elliott's amazing Twitter keyword search thing

Elliott Kember — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:26:48 -0000

It's a bit slow! Hopefully the snake makes up for that.

Re: Elliott's amazing Twitter keyword search thing

Elliott Kember — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:15:47 -0000

It's a bit slow - sorry!

Re: http://elliottkember.com/madness

Elliott Kember — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:12:45 -0000

Adium, a fantastic chat client for OSX, is a good example of this - if I type "elliottkember.com" into an Adium message, it will register it as a domain name. The same happens if I type "elliottkember.nl". We have an agreed list of TLDs, right? Surely these can be used in link recognition libraries without too much difficulty. I rarely type http:// into an instant message in Adium. In fact, I don't think I've ever written it.

But you're on a PC, so you can't use Adium. Sorry :(

Re: http://elliottkember.com/madness

Elliott Kember — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:29:30 -0000

Spot on, Kilian :) Although, once you're done, the browser puts "http://" in front of the URL, right?

Re: http://elliottkember.com/madness

Elliott Kember — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:21:58 -0000

1. I don't type ftp:// into my address bar. I don't type git:// into my address bar. https:// can remain, if you like, but it'd be cool if it said something more related to "secure", like - I dunno - "Secure"?

2. Good point. It wouldn't cut ".com" off the end, though.

3. YES I KNOW THANK YOU. However, why in Deity's name does the browser show http:// at the start of the URL?

This is an opinion and an idea. At least it gets people thinking about it. I appreciate what you're saying, though. Perhaps the TLD stuff needs to go. I stand by removing http://, though.

Re: http://elliottkember.com/madness

Elliott Kember — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:16:35 -0000

Yeah, it's the source code from my site's homepage. I released it as a jQuery plugin a while back.
Good spotting though :)

Re: http://elliottkember.com/madness

Elliott Kember — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:59:56 -0000

Oh man, I had no idea BT's no-www didn't work. That's unbelievable!

Re: http://elliottkember.com/madness

Elliott Kember — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:58:29 -0000

1: A good point. Perhaps what I want is for Google to find the most likely domain name for them. Then you have to wonder - why do we need the address bar at all? Google might work perfectly for that.

2: Not really - intranet.local has a . in it - which says that it's using leveled domains. The browser would leave this alone. Just "intranet" by itself, though, would redirect.

3: IPv6 is a big change to the entire Internet's networking system. This begins as a change to browser URL handling. We don't have to change the DNS system for this to work properly. It only really needs to be implemented in browsers, at least to begin with.

4: You're right here - there definitely needs to be a way of saying that something is a link. I'd lean towards [elliottkember/madness], but it's too code-y for normal usage.

This is not a finished spec, though. There's still lots of room for improvement and suggestions. Please don't turn it into an ad-hominem argument. You also spelled my name incorrectly in this entire comment.

Re: http://elliottkember.com/madness

Elliott Kember — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:39:02 -0000

Spot on. Google makes a great plain-English DNS resolution service!

Re: http://elliottkember.com/madness

Elliott Kember — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:36:09 -0000

Yeah, that's a good point. But I think the no-www guys have that one covered!

Edit: Also, imagine them saying "aitch tee tee pee colon forward-slash forward-slash double-u double-u double-u dot asininedomainname dot com"

Re: Hey, lose the pedantic negativity

Elliott Kember — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:19:29 -0000

Hey Dan, I had no intention of offending you - I was trying to be tongue-in-cheek with that last line. I'm going to blame it on wordpress stripping out my sarcasm tag.

The apps kinda were good publicity though, because people heard about them. For example, I'm giving a talk about building widgets at Momo Amsterdam this weekend - and Matt was on the front page of Techcrunch.

Like I said, I agree that they were a bit rushed and unfinished. I would've liked to have more time on them. I even spent my own spare time porting Twiggy for the web and iphone. All in all, you raise good points and have a valid opinion so I don't know why we're arguing. Truce? Buy you a beer at FOWD?

PS, I didn't build Tipster - Keir did.

Re: Hey, lose the pedantic negativity

Elliott Kember — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:53:17 -0000

You know what? I agree with you.

In all fairness, I don't think there are really THAT many bugs - and I challenge you to point them all out - but seeing as the projects are "finished", they certainly aren't going to get fixed any time soon. There have been a few problems with Matt since launch, and Twiggy has been a nightmare to validate with Betavine's garbage publishing system. It's a "build it and throw it away" kind of deal. Matt doesn't even have a privacy page.

Not only that, I reckon I probably spent more than four days building them. When you add in late night coding time, and bug fixing time, publishing time, additional optional work etc., neither of them took four days.

Long story short, they're unfinished and they're a bit hacky. Four days isn't enough time to learn Django, or to get really good at making widgets. I wouldn't suggest it as a viable business model.

Having said all that, the most important part of this comment is this:

They're cheap and cheerful, I learned a hell of a lot from building them, they were good publicity, and you didn't spend any money using them so stop your damn whining and build some better ones :)

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Elliott Kember — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:23:17 -0000

Hi there - my name is actually spelt with a "b", not a "p".

Re: Rantings

Elliott Kember — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:08:47 -0000

It's redundancy. If one rainbow goes down you have a failover rainbow.

Re: My Tweetdeck > Your Tweetdeck

Elliott Kember — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:08:03 -0000

Ooh, I can see me too!